Re: init

1997-11-04 Thread Bruce Perens
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I boot up linux, it says INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel and stops. What can I do? Is this your initial set-up of the system? Where did you get the CD or what are you using to install? When you type linux single at the boot: prompt, do you get to the

modem

1997-11-04 Thread joe . h
My modem picks up every 10 secs and dials 0. I think it has something to do with mgetty. Can anyone help? -Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! What's the best Linux/Debian (Win95/NT too) compatible video card available for $100-225? Thanks in advance for your help! Pere. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key

Re: termcap

1997-11-04 Thread Shaleh
Thanks I will try ncurses. The termcap-compat says it only works for pre-compiled binaries. Is this not the case? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Is Compaq QVision chipset supported by X?

1997-11-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, is Compaq QVision 1024/I (Compaq DeskPro XE computer) supported by XFree? The only info i found is about Compaq AVGA support. regards OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Is Compaq QVision chipset supported by X?

1997-11-04 Thread Bruce Perens
If it's an SVGA card, try the SVGA server. That works with most modern display cards. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER:

xconsole

1997-11-04 Thread Paul Miller
I want to customize xconsole a little bit. Heres what I want to do: a) load in the lower left (1024x768) b) white text with black background c) displayed as part of the background; can't be iconified/moved, etc. window manager has no control over it - no title bar or anything. is this possible?

Re: termcap

1997-11-04 Thread Matt Thompson
I have to install a program via source that needs termcap. How do I accomplish this in Bo. you need the termcap-compat package. i found this by going to www.debian.org, clicking on the Debian Packages link, and searching for 'termcap'. i made sure to tell the search engine to search only in

Re: modem

1997-11-04 Thread csmall
My modem picks up every 10 secs and dials 0. I think it has something to do with mgetty. Can anyone help? It's probably due to the initialisation script or perhaps mgetty thinks the line is busy and tries to pick up the incoming call. Looking in the mgetty log should tell you what is going

Re: Stop rc5v2 client, Bovine team won 56 bit secret key challenge!

1997-11-04 Thread Felix Schroeter
Hello! In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: [...] If you care to run it, they've released a rc5 64 bit client... :) Binary-only. Security related software w/o the ability to review (or even change) source... Enough said. Regards, Felix. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Re: termcap

1997-11-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote: I have to install a program via source that needs termcap. How do I accomplish this in Bo. If you can compile it yourself, change all the -ltermcap references into -lncurses. The termcap emulation in ncurses is completely transparent. -- Scott K. Ellis

Re: smartmail/exim question

1997-11-04 Thread Jim Pick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: I bet SmartList didn't make that header. How are you invoking the MDA? I figured that too (I was comparing notes against how the lists on master were set up). I'm just using the /var/list/.bin/choplist (altsendmail) method that smartlist defaults to.

Re: netscape

1997-11-04 Thread Stephen Zander
Hamish Moffatt wrote: Ever since I upgraded to XFree86 3.3 (in unstable), netscape won't run. First it complains that it can't find XKeysymDB, so I set that environment variable; then I get a bus error. Any ideas? There was a well-known (and often remarked on) bug with 3.3-6 wrt libc5

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: I decided to remove all the news-related stuff from my system and started over by installing the leafnode, inewsinn, and trn packages (is that sufficient?); the message I get now is Can't get host name, No such file or directory.. I just have

Re: termcap

1997-11-04 Thread stick
Thanks I will try ncurses. The termcap-compat says it only works for pre-compiled binaries. Is this not the case? That's right. termcap-compat for pre-compiled binaries that need termcap, or you can use the -lncurses option in the source code to make the new binaries that don't need the

Re: xconsole

1997-11-04 Thread Shaleh
A and B or in the man page, I would like to see C done. I believe it is wm specific. Paul Miller wrote: I want to customize xconsole a little bit. Heres what I want to do: a) load in the lower left (1024x768) b) white text with black background c) displayed as part of the background;

Re: smartmail/exim question

1997-11-04 Thread Bruce Perens
I bet SmartList didn't make that header. How are you invoking the MDA? Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502

Re: smartmail/exim question

1997-11-04 Thread Bruce Perens
See if you can not use choplist at all. It's a bit easier on the MDA. We are currently delivering the Debian lists with qmail, although I think we will eventually switch to something else since qmail's license is so strange. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need

xplaycd works without sound output

1997-11-04 Thread TING Ching-Hua
Hi, Debian 1.3.1 Pentium II (Gateway2000 G6-266) Esoniq Sound/PCI Wavetable sound card Mitsium CDROM Problems: 1. xplaycd works only in the root account. 2. In a user account xplaycd cannot access the CDROM. It always wants to access '/dev/cdrom'. The system always complains 'Permission

Re: init

1997-11-04 Thread joost witteveen
When I boot up linux, it says INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel and stops. What can I do? Oops, that's bad! Usually this means something is (badly?) screwed up with your system. Like missing essential libraries, a corrupt /bin/bash, whatever. The only way I can see to recover

Re: Large buffers entry in free

1997-11-04 Thread Richard L Shepherd
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Is there a bug somewhere? Yes. This is fixed in the procps currently in hamm, version 1.12.2.1. Are you using a hamm system that hasn't been updated for a week or so? I didn't think bo's procps had this problem too.. Oh yes it is! I have several bo

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Simon's Mailing List Account
Around the $100 end (or less) I'd say a generic ET6000 based card with 4MB of MDRAM. However, for around $220-$230 you should be able to find a Matrox Millenium II with 4MB of WRAM. It's supported as a Millenium I right now, but it'll be even better when it's fully supported as a Millenium 2.

dpkg won't remove nfsroot

1997-11-04 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
I have a misconfigured or partially configured nfsroot on my disk that is marked 'purge' in dselect. Both dselect and 'dpkg --force-remove-reinstreq -r nfsroot' give the following response: Removing nfsroot ... I will not do so, (as you may have some config stuff in there left), but you

Re: Accel-X and Debian

1997-11-04 Thread Mike Nachlinger
On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Will Lowe wrote: I'm thinking about switching to Accelerated X, because it has better support for my Diamond 3d 3000 4meg card. I ran the 4.1 demo and it seemed ok (other than that I needed to install libtermcap.so.2 to get the install process to work). I'm just

Re: debian-changes-digest Digest V97 #100

1997-11-04 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Nick Gilliam wrote: The subject Digest (V97 #100) included a message concerning pornography. Hopefully this was simply a mistake as it should have nothing whatsoever to do with Debian/GNU Linux. However, if you intend to promote this sort of activity in the future,

Re: login process fails with diskless box

1997-11-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On 3 Nov 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: Hi! I've set up a diskless Debian system. Mostly based on nfsroot. The binaries are from hamm. The X-Server works fine and I can log into another server using xdm. BUT I can't log in to the local machine. The login prompt comes, but it never asks

Re: hard drive crash

1997-11-04 Thread Bruce Perens
Jessica, Most Internet mailing lists frown on please do my homework requests. We'd like to keep this list for the single purpose of supporting the Debian Linux Distribution. Thanks Bruce Perens Debian Project Leader -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you

Re: xconsole

1997-11-04 Thread Paul Miller
B is in the man page of what? I already checked xconsole's man page.. and there is nothing concerning colors in the app-defaults/XConsole file.. -Paul On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Shaleh wrote: A and B or in the man page, I would like to see C done. I believe it is wm specific. Paul Miller wrote:

Debian distribution in the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine.

1997-11-04 Thread ESV Narayanan
I installed Debian from the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine. The computer is a Pentium 200 with 4Gb partitioned into a Win95 half and Linux partitions. Everything went well until I installed Loadlin to boot Linux from Win95 Boot prompt (following the instructions in Loadlin+Win95

smartmail/exim question

1997-11-04 Thread Jim Pick
I've recently installed exim and set up several smartlist mailing lists. Things are working the way I want them to, except for one thing. Every outgoing message contains a Resent-To: header with the addresses of everyone on the list. How can I get rid of this? Cheers, - Jim

Re: lpr does not work

1997-11-04 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, Papers came with mis-aligned but correct content printing if documents were sent from Xterm. Papers came without printing if an application did the printing. The system used is: HP LaserJet IIP Pentium II Debian 1.3.1 What kind of documents do you want to print? just plain

Re: gcc: Signal 7

1997-11-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 11:56:23AM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anybody tell me what happened when I was compiling a kernel? I got this gcc: signal 7 error and it stopped. On Sun, Nov 02, 1997 at 09:57:04PM +, Oliver Elphick answered: `man 7

login process fails with diskless box

1997-11-04 Thread Christian Leutloff
Hi! I've set up a diskless Debian system. Mostly based on nfsroot. The binaries are from hamm. The X-Server works fine and I can log into another server using xdm. BUT I can't log in to the local machine. The login prompt comes, but it never asks for a password after typing the user name. Where

Re: Accel-X and Debian

1997-11-04 Thread Sam Ockman
XFree86 tends to benchmark faster (using Matrox cards, which are by far the best/fastest cards under Linux) than either Metro-X or Accelerated X. It also has (imho) a better configuration program. From the limited contact I've had with Accelerated X technical support though they seem pretty

Re: modem

1997-11-04 Thread Gord Jeoffroy
At 06:57 PM 03/11/97 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My modem picks up every 10 secs and dials 0. I think it has something to do with mgetty. Can anyone help? Could be it's trying to phone home and can't dial direct. Check your phone bill for inexplicable long distance charges. Just be glad

Re: Question about sane

1997-11-04 Thread Shaul Karl.
I did not see any comment, so perhaps the following will be of some help. Your output shows couple of problems, but basicaly the program can't find some functions that it should have. I am not using sane and I am only speculating. I think that you didn't make some preliminary steps before you

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Paul Miller
I would have to go with the Matrox Millinium II; 64bit, 220 MHz, up to 16 WRAM, real time mpeg and rainbow running upgrades for video editing, and I think the 4 meg card is about $200 or $250.. I'm not sure the XFree86 supports it, but I believe Accel-X does. -Paul On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Pere

Re: X, S3 server, and #9 Motion 771

1997-11-04 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On 3 Nov 1997, Dale Martin wrote: Christopher Jason Morrone [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There appears to be a problem in the X3.3 packages. I have a #9 Motion 771. I can run XF86Setup, and I can enter all of the setup info. But then when I click Done and it tries to start the server for

Re: Large buffers entry in free

1997-11-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: Bob Nielsen wrote: I get an unreal buffers listing after running for several days (bo, kernel 2.0.31): $ free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 30948 27588 3360 7452 9152

Re: xconsole

1997-11-04 Thread Andrew J Tarr
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Paul Miller wrote: I want to customize xconsole a little bit. Heres what I want to do: a) load in the lower left (1024x768) b) white text with black background c) displayed as part of the background; can't be iconified/moved, etc. window manager has no control over it -

Re: Debian distribution in the CD-ROM distributed with BOOT magazine.

1997-11-04 Thread Bruce Perens
If your motherboard is set up to boot from CD and the Boot CD is still in the drive, it might give out that message. Pop the CD out and see what happens. If you determine your boot block really is clobbered, we can tell you how to replace it. I doubt, at this point, that a virus is to blame.

Re: ssh

1997-11-04 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Adam Shand wrote: What about making empty package named ssh and put it into archive which will just say when installed that there is also non-US part of archive and where one can find it. Or better yet have the install script explain the situation and then ask you if

Re: termcap

1997-11-04 Thread Shaleh
Compiled like a champ. Thanks all. Man I love debian and its people. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: hard drive crash

1997-11-04 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jessica Wolfe wrote: I need to write a report on hard drive crashes. First I need to figure out all the possible causes of hard disk failure. Can you help me out? [...] Student North Idaho College Major: Computer Applications In Business Coeur

Re: modem

1997-11-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My modem picks up every 10 secs and dials 0. I think it has something to do with mgetty. Can anyone help? -Joe I'll help you, but ONLY if you lower ISDN rates for the north-east! Seriously though, did you perchance install (and partially configure?!) diald?

Re: smartmail/exim question

1997-11-04 Thread tps
On Nov 03, Jim Pick wrote I've recently installed exim and set up several smartlist mailing lists. Things are working the way I want them to, except for one thing. Every outgoing message contains a Resent-To: header with the addresses of everyone on the list. How can I get rid of this?

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I would have to go with the Matrox Millinium II; 64bit, 220 MHz, up to 16 WRAM, real time mpeg and rainbow running upgrades for video editing, and I think the 4 meg card is about $200 or $250.. I'm not sure the XFree86 supports it, but I believe Accel-X

Re: hard drive crash

1997-11-04 Thread Paulo Ramos
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Jessica Wolfe wrote: I need to write a report on hard drive crashes. First I need to figure out all the possible causes of hard disk failure. Can you help me out? What do you mean with hard disk failure? HD stop spinning, making strange noises, isn't possible read the

Re: Year 2000

1997-11-04 Thread bewhite
Arran, Although linux may be year 2000 safe, You also must assure that all application programs are also clean. It much more likely that an application program will will have the fatal hidden flaw that will bring you down. Ben

init

1997-11-04 Thread joe . h
When I boot up linux, it says INIT: no more processes left in this runlevel and stops. What can I do? -Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: perl and ISO-8859-1

1997-11-04 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I saw this in a recent info-gnu posting: Subject: Bash-2.01.1 available for FTP [...] g. Fixed a bug in the locale code that occurred when assigning a value to LC_ALL. Don't know which exactly was wrong, but I hope to see a Debianised bash_2.01.1

lpr does not work

1997-11-04 Thread TING Ching-Hua
Hi, Papers came with mis-aligned but correct content printing if documents were sent from Xterm. Papers came without printing if an application did the printing. The system used is: HP LaserJet IIP Pentium II Debian 1.3.1 Thanks,

Re: ssh

1997-11-04 Thread Adam Shand
What about making empty package named ssh and put it into archive which will just say when installed that there is also non-US part of archive and where one can find it. Or better yet have the install script explain the situation and then ask you if you want it to download the version from an

Re: Samba Samba

1997-11-04 Thread Adam Shand
How can I persuade Samba to let everyone print ? If user is not admin user I get Access denied writing to the printer when I click on Print. As soon as I add user to admin user then samba prints. That is not a samba issue it's an lp issue. Check permissions on everything in

termcap

1997-11-04 Thread Shaleh
I have to install a program via source that needs termcap. How do I accomplish this in Bo. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Easy Samba Question

1997-11-04 Thread Adam Shand
: Will Samba work across a router? The Internet? : : Am I dreaming? Is there a way to do this? If so, any pointers? The HOWTO : didn't deal with this issue at all. It will work, unless some firewall/router blocks your packets. smbclient host\\service -I _ip_of_host It's

Re: Posting to usenet

1997-11-04 Thread Trevor Barrie
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Trevor Barrie wrote: I decided to remove all the news-related stuff from my system and started over by installing the leafnode, inewsinn, and trn packages (is that sufficient?); the message I get now is Can't get host

Re: public news servers

1997-11-04 Thread Ricardas Cepas
On Mon Nov 3 12:31:05 1997 +0400 Ferenc Kiraly wrote: Hi! This is sligtly off topic, but... Are there any public news servers on this planet that would feed news (at least linux related newsgrups) to my news server? thanks, feri. news.fuller.edu for ex. Or

Re: netscape

1997-11-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 02:08:21PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: Ever since I upgraded to XFree86 3.3 (in unstable), netscape won't run. First it complains that it can't find XKeysymDB, so I set that environment variable; then I get a bus error. Any ideas? There

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! What's the best Linux/Debian (Win95/NT too) compatible video card available for $100-225? Thanks in advance for your help! card with 3d acceleration is way to go. The only supported by Linux 3d cards are 3dfx based - check diamond

Re: Easy Samba Question

1997-11-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 03, 1997 at 06:05:51PM +0100, Kevin Traas wrote: Will Samba work across a router? The Internet? i.e. I'm about 8000KM away from the Linux system I'd like to connect to via SMB. Am I dreaming? Is there a way to do this? If so, any pointers? The HOWTO didn't deal with this

Re: smartmail/exim question

1997-11-04 Thread Jim Pick
Every outgoing message contains a Resent-To: header with the addresses of everyone on the list. How can I get rid of this? Ok, I figured out how to do it. There is a new feature in exim 1.73 (just uploaded) that allows you to strip selected headers. I changed to the following in

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Bruce Perens
S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER:

fat32 in installation vfat module?

1997-11-04 Thread Matt Thompson
I hope it's not inappropriate to cross-post this. I thought it somewhat relevant to both groups. I'm interested in submitting a 'Beginner's Debian Installation Guide' of some sort. I have about 80% of the framework of one completed, but am concerned about the lack of fat32 support. As is

Re: xconsole

1997-11-04 Thread Adam Shand
B is in the man page of what? I already checked xconsole's man page.. and there is nothing concerning colors in the app-defaults/XConsole file.. I believe that it says in there somewhere that xconsole understands most of the standard xcommands... so if you do a 'man X' or 'man xterm' most of

Re: ssh

1997-11-04 Thread Adam Shand
Or better yet have the install script explain the situation and then ask you if you want it to download the version from an overseas mirror... and then install that over the top of the fake one. This seems a good idea, but there is one technical problem. You simply can't call dpkg to

Re: lpr does not work

1997-11-04 Thread TING Ching-Hua
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (joost witteveen) Subject:Re: lpr does not work To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (TING Ching-Hua) Date sent: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 21:40:52 +0100 (CET) Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Hi, Papers came with mis-aligned but correct

Re: xplaycd works without sound output

1997-11-04 Thread Joost Kooij
On Mon, 3 Nov 1997, TING Ching-Hua wrote: Problems: 1. xplaycd works only in the root account. 2. In a user account xplaycd cannot access the CDROM. It always wants to access '/dev/cdrom'. The system always complains 'Permission denied'. 3. No sound. Try this on your computer: ls -l

Booting from drive connected to a PCMCIA SlimSCSI adapter

1997-11-04 Thread Vankeerberghen Pieter
Colleagues, I've an external SCSI drive connected to a Adaptec AHA 2920 controller with Debian 1.3 on it. Now, I want to connect this drive to a PCMCIA SlimSCSI card inserted in my Compaq Contura and boot using Loadlin (images on DOS C:), as I always did. I got and installed the PCMCIA packages

Re: login process fails with diskless box

1997-11-04 Thread Christian Leutloff
Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 3 Nov 1997, Christian Leutloff wrote: I've set up a diskless Debian system. Mostly based on nfsroot. The binaries are from hamm. The X-Server works fine and I can log into another server using xdm. BUT I can't log in to the local machine. The

rpc.rquotad running multiple times ???

1997-11-04 Thread Peter Biechele
I am running the quota system on our server. But I was wondering why the rquotad server is running at least 20 times on this machine ??? I have found the following messages in the daemon.log file in /var/adm: (I have changed the DNS names) about 20 times the next line: Nov 3 11:51:26 (SERVER)

Re: Samba Samba

1997-11-04 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Thanks Adam. I had tried that before. But after I got your response I went and checked again. I had write permisions in the bottom directory of /var/spool/lpd/printername. So I made spool and lpd world writeable also. It works now. Thanks again. For a while I was wondering whether my message got

PPP and NT4.0

1997-11-04 Thread Tim Wilson
I just subscribed, and have spent the last 3.5 hrs reading through May,Jun,Jul archives for answers. If this has been covered before please tell me which archive to look at. I am having problems connecting to my Debian Linux system from an NT4.0 machine. I have also experienced the same

dselect other install issues.

1997-11-04 Thread John Spence
I've just installed 1.3.1 with my shiny new CDROM set so please don't tell me that Debian GNU/Linux version 2.0.0 is due out next week. My first use of dselect was interesting but seemed to work out fine when I worked out how to display a list of All packages installed or not. However I ran it a

knews Q.

1997-11-04 Thread Richard G. Roberto
Can anyone explain to me in plain, simple english, what I need to do to get knews to only subscribe to the 5 news groups I've subscribed to? It ignores $NNTPSERVER, so I need to manually connect to my ISPs news server everytime I start it, and it always tries to read every group. I looked at the

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Pere Camps
Simon, with 4MB of MDRAM. However, for around $220-$230 you should be able to find a Matrox Millenium II with 4MB of WRAM. It's supported as a Millenium I right now, but it'll be even better when it's fully supported as a Millenium 2. Is the Millenium II good on 3D, or, remaking the

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Pere Camps
Oleg, are 3dfx based - check diamond monster 3d. you'll have accelerated OpenGL under Linux and Windows and can play GLQuake with decent frame rate. Does the monster need a 2D card, or can it provide 2D graphics as well? Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL

[X Resources] Which Debian packages?

1997-11-04 Thread stick
Howdy all! I've been playing around w/ X Resources - have made xcalc look sweet! But I now have a rather general question. How do you determine what values for a resource are valid? I've used editres to see the resource tree and to even change some values. I've used appres to display the

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Pere Camps
Paul, I would have to go with the Matrox Millinium II; 64bit, 220 MHz, up to 16 WRAM, real time mpeg and rainbow running upgrades for video editing, and I think the 4 meg card is about $200 or $250.. I'm not sure the XFree86 Any good for 3D? Better than Diamond's Monster?

Re: dselect other install issues.

1997-11-04 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, John Spence wrote: I've just installed 1.3.1 with my shiny new CDROM set so please don't tell me that Debian GNU/Linux version 2.0.0 is due out next week. Nope. We might make it out by the end of the year, but I very much doubt it. Upgrading to libc6 is a massive

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Pere Camps
Bruce, S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. Does this make all the Virges good for Linux? If so, do we have support for them now, or do we have to wait? Thanks for the info! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lpr does not work (w. HP LaserJet)

1997-11-04 Thread JD Thomlinson
Printing to a HP LaserJet requires that you send an initialization control sequence to the printer that tells the printer to use a CRLF for each LF the printer receives. I created a simple printcap filter to do this, and to allow selection of monospaced font sizes. If you would like I can

Re: PPP and NT4.0

1997-11-04 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Tim Wilson wrote: I just subscribed, and have spent the last 3.5 hrs reading through May,Jun,Jul archives for answers. If this has been covered before please tell me which archive to look at. I am having problems connecting to my Debian Linux system from an NT4.0 machine. I have also

Re: sendmail - smail: easiest way!

1997-11-04 Thread Magic
Hi! Where can I find libdl1 ? linuxconf depends on it... Thx! Magic -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic Czymze jest zycie, jesli nie ustawiczna mozliwoscia popelniania bledow. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: dselect other install issues.

1997-11-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
John Spence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: My first use of dselect was interesting but seemed to work out fine when I worked out how to display a list of All packages installed or not. However I ran it a second time just to familiarise myself with it and when I went to quit I accidentally selected

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: Oleg, are 3dfx based - check diamond monster 3d. you'll have accelerated OpenGL under Linux and Windows and can play GLQuake with decent frame rate. Does the monster need a 2D card, or can it provide 2D graphics as well? i believe you

libdl1 ??

1997-11-04 Thread Magic
Hi! Upss... sorry 4 last subject ;) Where can I find libdl1 ? linuxconf depends on it... Thx! Magic -- email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pg.gda.pl/~magic Czymze jest zycie, jesli nie ustawiczna mozliwoscia popelniania

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pere Camps [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. Does this make all the Virges good for Linux? If so, do we have support for them now, or do we have to wait? They are supported now, in XFree86 and in svgalib. -- Ben Pfaff [EMAIL

Re: lpr does not work (w. HP LaserJet)

1997-11-04 Thread TING Ching-Hua
Date sent: Tue, 04 Nov 1997 09:46:46 -0500 To: TING Ching-Hua [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: JD Thomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:Re: lpr does not work (w. HP LaserJet) Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Printing to a HP LaserJet requires that you

in.qpopper and /var/spool/mail

1997-11-04 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is there any way to make in.qpopper use another directory than /var/spool/mail? TIA! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available --- (_)/ (_)Lo importante es

RE: knews Q.

1997-11-04 Thread George Bonser
On 04-Nov-97 Richard G. Roberto wrote: Can anyone explain to me in plain, simple english, what I need to do to get knews to only subscribe to the 5 news groups I've subscribed to? You will need to download the active file ONCE and can cache it afterwords. I can't afford to keep mucking

diald / ppp routing problems on hamm system

1997-11-04 Thread Ken Lauffenburger
Hello, I very recently upgraded my home system from bo to hamm. As soon as I installed the netbase package, diald stopped working. The PPP link would connect, but the PPP link no longer was selected as the default route. However, I could establish the link using the 'pon' command. (I was

Re: other side of remote xdm

1997-11-04 Thread Rick Hawkins
We'd like to set up some boxes that come up as xterminals, to be used on the remote connections. I've found the -querey type options for startx, but not for xdm. We really just want to turn old hardware into remote heads on alphas. Can anyone make any suggestions? Let's call the

Re: dselect other install issues.

1997-11-04 Thread John Spence
04 Nov 1997 11:09:13 -0500, Ben Pfaff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As expected the program starting flying throught the list of programs but it never seemed to stop. My screen saver activated twice as I was waiting for the program to stop. I'm not sure what the default time the screensaver is

dselect times out

1997-11-04 Thread Robert Zeches
when I try to update my list of available packages via ftp, the transfer times out every time. I usually only get about 100k of the packages.gz file regardless of where I request it from. FTP *to and from* the server is really slow and usually times out, but other network traffic seems to be

non-US , RE:ssh

1997-11-04 Thread Andrea Mennucci
What about having that all debian mirrors who can contain a non-us package have a directory called non-US so that we may set our dpkg-ftp to stable free contrib non-US and load all non US packages automagically? this is not so now BTW in ftp.de.debian.org I could set Enter space

(sendmail || bind) help

1997-11-04 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, A friend of mine is trying to configure a linux box as a mail, web and pop3 server and is having some troubles that over pass by far my little knowledge on this subject. He is doing the following in /etc/sendmail.cf: Cwnat.com.br DMnat.com.br And in

configuring bind

1997-11-04 Thread Paul Miller
Is there a good howto or web page on configurating bind? -Paul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

man problem, bo

1997-11-04 Thread Pann McCuaig
I've done a recent simple installation of a subset of bo. root can access man just fine. If a normal user issues a man command, such as 'man man' the following output appears: man: can't create a temporary filename: No such file or directory Must be a permissions problem, but where? Thanks.

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Pete Harlan
S3 has signed the Open Hardware certification for the Virge. Thanks Bruce What's the Open Hardware certification? What other vendors have/haven't signed it? What other chipsets has S3 signed it for, or not signed it for? Why did Debian's version numbering change? (Just

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