Re: add video memory

1997-11-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 04:16:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i have TGUI9440AGI video card it has 1mb of memory > i'd to upgrade to 2mb of memory > but don't know how, can you help me As Ben points out, there should be some sockets on the card to put the extra RAM in. Quite often DRAM chip

Re: identd?

1997-11-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 01:03:21PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote: > > What is /usr/sbin/identd, and why don't I have it installed? It seems > that it's trying to run an awful lot. It's a protocol for passing usernames around. When you connect to a remote service, the services knows what host you com

Re: compile

1997-11-18 Thread Bao C. Ha
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, RedHat Linux User wrote: > every time I compile the kernel, it is too big? > > boot sector 512 bytes > setup is 4380 bytes > system is 511Kb > system is too big > make[1] *** [zImage] error 1 > > any ideas make bzImage Bao -- Bao C. Ha ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://ww

Re: Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Nov 18, 1997 at 09:30:01PM +0100, Paul Huygen wrote: > "G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does > >this mean I will not be able to print my files which are larger than 1 > >Mb? Or doesn't it matter as long as my computer memory is large enough ? > >Any hint will be appreciated.

Re: using dpkg to "see" the contents of a package

1997-11-18 Thread Gertjan Klein
Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I heavily use mc to enter a deb package. Then I can even examine the > contents of the files inside without the need of dpkg --extract. It is > pretty neat. How do you do this? My mc (3.5.17, from Debian 1.3.1) doesn't seem to support .deb pac

Re: cannot find qt1g in unstable

1997-11-18 Thread Igor Grobman
> Hi, > > I am trying to install the KDE desktop, which depends > on qt1 and some if it's libraries on qt1g. > I cannot find qt1q in the hamm distribution.. It's stuck in the Incoming. llug.sep.bnl.gov and ftp1.us.debian.org are 2 of the many sites that carry it. -- Proudly running Debian Linu

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > The reason I say, that you need to purge them (especially if you are > doing development), is because of... > > 0x401c6230 in malloc () > (gdb) bt > #0 0x401c6230 in malloc () > #1 0x401c6145 in malloc () > #2 0x401c12cc in fopen () > #3 0x80ab65b

Ping won't work..

1997-11-18 Thread Richard . Dansereau
Hello all! We have a Linux laptop here that we've just recompiled kernel 2.0.30 along with the PCMCIA card services for a 3C589 ethernet card. We've finally gotten some communication over the ethernet card but not everything works. For instance, from the box we can telnet out to other machines.

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar James Troup: > > "Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >> You can purge all libc5 programs, takes a trick or two though... > >> and it's the ONLY way to get a stable libc6 system. > > > I've been tracking hamm on

Re: Installing a generic PCI network card

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Joost Kooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ps: The only nice thing about these pci ne2000 cards is that you get less > hassle with interrupts. Next time I'm getting either an isa (cheaper) or a > busmastering capable (better) card. I have one machine with a $15 NE2000 (ISA non-PNP) and one machine

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > I beg to differ here. My machine runs sync'd to hamm, but I still use > several programs that are only libc5 (including netscape). Everything > works fine, although with Netscrape running my memory useage is a bit on > the cramped side. > The reason I

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar James Troup: > "Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> You can purge all libc5 programs, takes a trick or two though... >> and it's the ONLY way to get a stable libc6 system. > I've been tracking hamm on several systems, ever since libc6 came out... and there

Re: Installing a generic PCI network card

1997-11-18 Thread Joost Kooij
On 18 Nov 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Why is it being used as a 16 bit card. Or is it running as a 32 bit ? > > >From /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.gz: > > Various clone manufacturers have started making PCI ne2000 clones > based on the RealTek 802

Re: add video memory

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > i have TGUI9440AGI video card it has 1mb of memory > i'd to upgrade to 2mb of memory > but don't know how, can you help me Look at the card. Does it have sockets for additional memory? If so, what sort of sockets--are they 30 pin, 72 pin, or something else? If they'r

add video memory

1997-11-18 Thread ALittleber
i have TGUI9440AGI video card it has 1mb of memory i'd to upgrade to 2mb of memory but don't know how, can you help me thanks alonzo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: cannot find qt1g in unstable

1997-11-18 Thread ioannis
Wake-up ftp manager! qt1g has been resting in incoming for many centuries. Get a copy from Jim's mirror at ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming -- Ioannis Tambouras [EMAIL PROTECTED], West Palm Beach, Florida Signed pgp-key on key server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIS

Re: Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread Paul Huygen
"G. Kapetanios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does >this mean I will not be able to print my files which are larger than 1 >Mb? Or doesn't it matter as long as my computer memory is large enough ? >Any hint will be appreciated. I do almost everything with LaTeX via Postscript (G

2.0.32pre5 kernel

1997-11-18 Thread Tommy Lakofski
I downloaded this as a pre-patched tarfile from ftp.kernel.org, then put it in my /usr/src/, then did a make menuconfig and tried to make-kpkg kernel_image. In various attempts, I got sig-11's, kernel panics and oops's -- generally some bad things happened. However, when trying to compile my 2.0.29

Re: compile

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Martin
(A suspicious return email address, but I'll assume it's correct) On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, RedHat Linux User wrote: > every time I compile the kernel, it is too big? > > boot sector 512 bytes > setup is 4380 bytes > system is 511Kb > system is too big > make[1] *** [zImage] error 1 > > any ideas >

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: > On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Stern wrote: > > > > > Not one to leave well enough alone, I now want to setup my home Debian > > Linux box so that messages are transferred to my local mailspool and I > > can run a mail program locally. I've chosen sendm

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread James Troup
"Orn E. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can purge all libc5 programs, takes a trick or two though... > and it's the ONLY way to get a stable libc6 system. Absolute rubbish. I've been running two systems and have access to a third which have been tracking hamm since it became hamm, al

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread David Stern
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Steve Kostecke wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Stern) writes: > [snip] > > My question is: What is a good method to go about checking for and > > delivering messages? Is there some slick app (gui or otherwise) that > > automates this

Re: Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Ted Harding <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there not a version of the 5L which can be obtained with a true > PostScript option installed? No. You have to upgrade to a 6MP. The 6L is $399 (maybe less); the 6MP is $850 (maybe more). -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL P

Re: Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Nov-97 Ben Pfaff wrote: > Though everything that Ted says is true, I must note that an HP 6L is > not a PostScript printer. I have a 5L at home with 1 MB memory and > can say that, under PCL, that that is enough memory to printer > anything but the most complex graphics at 600 dpi and I have

identd?

1997-11-18 Thread Will Lowe
Watching my xconsole window, I've seen a lot of these: Nov 18 02:52:32 rivendell in.comsat[826]: connect from localhost Nov 18 02:54:07 rivendell in.smtpd[827]: connect from rivendell.rndy.udel.edu Nov 18 02:54:07 rivendell inetd[828]: execv /usr/sbin/identd: No such file or directory Nov 18 02:5

Re: S3Virge video card: SVGA or S3V xserver?

1997-11-18 Thread Will Lowe
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Ronan LEBREF - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/EST wrote: > distribution. I choose to use the SVGA xserver for my S3Virge video card. > Everything works fine but I'm just wondering something I didn't understood in > the docs. What are the main differences between the SVGA and S3V

Re: How to mirror the unstable debian distribution non-free included and make a debian-cd with it?

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Martin
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Ranty wrote: > I have an slow link (33.600bps modem) so I can not go around downloading > too many things, but I have the chance of getting all of it via ethernet, the > problem is: > -I have to get it in about 300MB pieces. I mean, I have plenty of room > in my co

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > > On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > > > NO! ABSOLUTLY POSITIVLY DO *NOT* PURGE LIBC5! YOU WILL TRASH YOUR SYSTEM > > BEYOND ALL HOPE OF REPAIR! > > > > What you do need to do if you're upgrading to

compile

1997-11-18 Thread RedHat Linux User
every time I compile the kernel, it is too big? boot sector 512 bytes setup is 4380 bytes system is 511Kb system is too big make[1] *** [zImage] error 1 any ideas -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Scott Ellis: > On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > > NO! ABSOLUTLY POSITIVLY DO *NOT* PURGE LIBC5! YOU WILL TRASH YOUR SYSTEM > BEYOND ALL HOPE OF REPAIR! > > What you do need to do if you're upgrading to a full hamm (unstable) > system is to use dpkg to purge th

Re: a bit more on that PPP & PAP

1997-11-18 Thread Dima
> Rick Hawkins wrote: > >It just occurred to me that I haven't set anything for PPP to tell it an >initial route to the world, other than including the nameserver IP's in >/etc. Is there something I should be setting in /etc/options_out? It sets up the route automagically. However, if you want i

Re: PAP & PPP, take 3

1997-11-18 Thread Dima
> Alex Yukhimets wrote: > >how do you configure Internet explore dialer? I understand you type in the >phone number and what else? DO you specify it needs pap authorization? >May be your ISP uses chap (hardly probable), not pap? You also type in username and password. AFAIK it does PAP by default

Re: Installing a generic PCI network card

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Chuma Agbodike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why is it being used as a 16 bit card. Or is it running as a 32 bit ? >From /usr/doc/HOWTO/Ethernet-HOWTO.gz: Various clone manufacturers have started making PCI ne2000 clones based on the RealTek 8029 chip. These cards are also supported by the

Help needed intalling debian

1997-11-18 Thread David Welch
Hi, I am brand new to linux and debian. I have been trying to intall debian on my Toshiba T1910 laptop (intel 486sx33, 4mb ram). I have downloaded all the required files from debian/stable/disks-i386/current. When I try to use rawrite to copy resc1440.bin and drv1440.bin to disk I get either "a

S3Virge video card: SVGA or S3V xserver?

1997-11-18 Thread Ronan LEBREF - STAGIAIRE A FT.BD/CNET/DTD/EST
I'm a newbye in Linux and I just installed XFree86 from the last debian distribution. I choose to use the SVGA xserver for my S3Virge video card. Everything works fine but I'm just wondering something I didn't understood in the docs. What are the main differences between the SVGA and S3V xserver

Re: How to use dpkg -b ??

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Debian List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But given the 3 files (diff, dsc, tar), how do I use dpkg-buildpackage? I > tried running it but it says it can't find debian/changelog and can't > determine the source package... Oh, I'm sorry. Use `dpkg-source -x PACKAGE.dsc' to extract the source code,

list server healthy again

1997-11-18 Thread Bruce Perens
I removed maximum-child-process limits from the list server and raised the number of inodes and file descriptors in the kernel. It seems to be working much better. Thanks to Phil Troin for info on what to write in /proc/sys/kernel . Also, thanks to Manoj Srivasta for calling me at home to tell me

Installing a generic PCI network card

1997-11-18 Thread Chuma Agbodike
I had a 16 bit NE2000 card in my desktop. - An AMD 166 based computer. Since I wanted to add a third system (using a 486) I replaced the 16 bit NIC with a PCI NE2000. So I go to recompile in the PCI NE2000 into the Linux on the AMD computer. During make config, I pick PCI. Well linux would not see

Re: My neverending unstable xlib6 / xcontrib saga

1997-11-18 Thread Chuma Agbodike
Yes I noticed what you report. But I have no sugestion. Not having anytime to play hide and seek, I simply left 3.3-5 in there . At least for now. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! I haven't seen any other messages on the list or bug reports about > this, so maybe I'm overlooking something really b

Re: /etc/hostname <-- FQDN?

1997-11-18 Thread john
Peter Prohaska writes: > do I have to put the FQDN in [/etc/hostname]? No. > And where is that information used for if I've got that /etc/hosts file > to handle local lookups. It tells your machine what its own name is. > If I have two interfaces with different IP-adds, it is also possible that

Re: a bit more on that PPP & PAP

1997-11-18 Thread john
rick writes: > It just occurred to me that I haven't set anything for PPP to tell it an > initial route to the world, other than including the nameserver IP's in > /etc. Is there something I should be setting in /etc/options_out? Uncomment the 'defaultroute' line. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Maintaining a Debian mirror via "floppy net"

1997-11-18 Thread David Wright
On 18 Nov 1997, Falk Hueffner wrote: > I have a PC at home running Debian with no connection to the net. So do I. When I install packages, I copy the debian/ tree to a jaz disk in another VC when it asks "shall I delete the installed files", and then I switch back and answer yes, and delete the

Re: How to use dpkg -b ??

1997-11-18 Thread Debian List
Thanks... But given the 3 files (diff, dsc, tar), how do I use dpkg-buildpackage? I tried running it but it says it can't find debian/changelog and can't determine the source package... Also, what would be the procedure to customize/patch a package? Would I untar the original source, make mods to

Hanging after xdm login

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
After my X server has been running for a while and I've logged in and out a few times through xdm, the next time I log in, it stops after clearing away the xdm login screen and the xterm never comes up; I can't get to the fvwm2 menu either. Instead I have to switch to another virtual console and k

Maintaining a Debian mirror via "floppy net"

1997-11-18 Thread Falk Hueffner
Hi, I have a PC at home running Debian with no connection to the net. To keep it up-to-date, i have a mirror of ftp.debian.org. It is quite some work to update it; currently I do it by taking my Packages file, making sort and diff and grep till I have the new Packages, get them via wget, put them

Re: Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Though everything that Ted says is true, I must note that an HP 6L is not a PostScript printer. I have a 5L at home with 1 MB memory and can say that, under PCL, that that is enough memory to printer anything but the most complex graphics at 600 dpi and I haven't found a page yet that failed to pr

Re: How to use dpkg -b ??

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Debian List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've grabbed the source files for a package (.diff.gz, .dsc, .tar.gz) but > now I don't know what to do ;) > > I thought the process was to use dpkg -b but that didn't work. Install dpkg-dev, then run dpkg-buildpackage. -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <

Re: Patching gcc

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
gibson james <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I installed Debian 1.3 then patched gcc with the diff from the Gnu ftp > site. Now when I run 'gcc -v' gcc shows the version as 2.7.2.2 (as > expected). But when I try to install lic6-deV, dpkg returns an error to > the effect that I need gcc 2.7.2.2 or hi

RE: Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread Ted Harding
On 18-Nov-97 G. Kapetanios wrote: > I am thinking of bying a laser printer but I have one question. I will be > printing some large documents with lots of graphics in them. The files > will have the postscript format. For example one file I recently printed > was 6.2 Mb. The cheapest laser printer

How to use dpkg -b ??

1997-11-18 Thread Debian List
Hi guys, I've grabbed the source files for a package (.diff.gz, .dsc, .tar.gz) but now I don't know what to do ;) I thought the process was to use dpkg -b but that didn't work. How do I go about it? I need to customize some of the .h files, then I'd like to build the package... Can someone help

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-18 Thread Olaf Weber
tibor simko writes: > `local.tex' means in fact `/usr/lib/texmf/doc/tetex/TETEXDOC.tex' or > `/usr/doc/tetex-base/tetex/teTeX-FAQ' under debian. traditionally, > local guide contains information relative to the implementation of TeX > on the system in use. > IMO it's not really intended to new u

Re: PPP & minicom

1997-11-18 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> All of you have probably seen this question many times, but I'm having > trouble getting my modem setup in Debian Linux. This is my first time using > linux, but I so far I can't get either pppd or minicom to init the modem. > In fact I don't even know if I have the serial port and all the other

Patching gcc

1997-11-18 Thread gibson james
Forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but... I installed Debian 1.3 then patched gcc with the diff from the Gnu ftp site. Now when I run 'gcc -v' gcc shows the version as 2.7.2.2 (as expected). But when I try to install lic6-deV, dpkg returns an error to the effect that I need gcc 2.7.2.2 or

Re: mp3 to wav

1997-11-18 Thread Pere Camps
Remco, > :Anyone know of something that does mp3 to wav conversion? > Yes, l3dec, made by Fraunhofer. Thanks for the info. Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_ http://casal.upc.es/~pere/ PGP key available ---

PPP & minicom

1997-11-18 Thread Jeremy Blonde
All of you have probably seen this question many times, but I'm having trouble getting my modem setup in Debian Linux. This is my first time using linux, but I so far I can't get either pppd or minicom to init the modem. In fact I don't even know if I have the serial port and all the other details

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread Joe Stewart
At 06:37 PM 11/17/97 -0800, David Stern wrote: >Hi, > This is a question that I had recently. The answer seemed to be to use fetchmail to receive mail from your ISP's POP server. Then use procmail loaclly to distribute. I changed the appear script in the Linux Journal article "Ghosting onto the

Re: No PPP kernel support....

1997-11-18 Thread Shaleh
On my box this was a permission problem. Check the perms on all pon related files and on the /dev/tty???. Kevin Traas wrote: > > I've got a friend that I'm trying to support over the phone He's > getting the above error when trying to run "pon". I've gone through all the > obvious things,

Re: local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Stern wrote: > Hi, > > My isp provides a "Unix shell account", and because I pick my e-mail up > from different platforms (Mac, PC, NeXT, Unix terms) and locations, it's > been most practical for me to simpy telnet into my isp and run my > (curses-based) e-mail program

Re: How to mirror the unstable debian distribution non-free included and make a debian-cd with it?

1997-11-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Ranty wrote: > I have an slow link (33.600bps modem) so I can not go around downloading > too many things, but I have the chance of getting all of it via ethernet, the > problem is: > -I have to get it in about 300MB pieces. I mean, I have plenty of room > in my co

Re: Removing obsolete packages

1997-11-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dirk Bonne wrote: > > "Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Lukas> Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also > Lukas> contained in other packages, is it removed? > > Lukas> Or, if I remove a file from perl-base, is /usr/bin/perl

Re: Removing obsolete packages

1997-11-18 Thread Lukas Eppler
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Dirk Bonne wrote: > > "Lukas" == Lukas Eppler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lukas> Hi, When I remove a package, which contains files also > Lukas> contained in other packages, is it removed? > dpkg will refuse to remove a package if it removal would break another >

Re: mp3 to wav

1997-11-18 Thread Ben Pfaff
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Anyone know of something that does mp3 to wav conversion? Use mpg123 to convert to ULAW, then sox to convert to WAV. (To avoid the non-free package l3dec.) -- Ben Pfaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Where is the Local Guide to Latex?

1997-11-18 Thread tibor simko
>>> "Drake" == Drake Diedrich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Drake> I've never seen such a file on any system with Latex. >>> "HH" == H Huang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HH> I saw one on our campus' workstations. The file name is HH> local.tex. But obviously there's no file by this name

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Scott Ellis
On Tue, 18 Nov 1997, Orn E. Hansen wrote: > and if you intend to use libc6 for future use and development, then > purge libc5 and all its remnants, as there *is* and will remain a conflict > between the two. NO! ABSOLUTLY POSITIVLY DO *NOT* PURGE LIBC5! YOU WILL TRASH YOUR SYSTEM BEYOND ALL H

Re: Unable to install Debian on Thinkpad 760E

1997-11-18 Thread Robert J. Alexander
Dear Brandon, YOU ARE A GENIUS (as most Debian lovers 8->) The Tecra special rescue and drivers disk made effortlessly !! Now my Thinkpad 760E is working as a charm but I have a few NEW questions now: 1) What is the linux file in the debian/stable/disks-i386/current/special/tecra/

Re: cannot find qt1g in unstable

1997-11-18 Thread Bruce Perens
look in non-free. 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 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the w

Re: Proposal on PPP

1997-11-18 Thread Bruce Perens
All that is necessary is for the xisp package to install a file in /usr/lib/menu, that will hook it into the menu system of the Debian "menu" package. Thanks Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.de

Re: Need help hacking print filter.

1997-11-18 Thread Brian K Servis
Dale Scheetz writes: > >I am printing postscript files to my HP DeskJet using printcap and a gs >filter. Things work as expected, but I have several minor glitches that I >can't figure out how to deal with. > >When I print a "plain ascii" file I simply cat the file to the printer. >The printer defa

Re: exit script

1997-11-18 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hello all, > > I would like to execute a few commands when I exit X windows session. Can > someone tell me which script file will be excuted when one finishes the X > windows session so that I can write my commands on that. > There are two possibilities. When an xsession on display :0 ends

exit script

1997-11-18 Thread A.D.Y. Cheng
Hello all, I would like to execute a few commands when I exit X windows session. Can someone tell me which script file will be excuted when one finishes the X windows session so that I can write my commands on that. Thanks Anthony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "uns

Memory and printing

1997-11-18 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am thinking of bying a laser printer but I have one question. I will be printing some large documents with lots of graphics in them. The files will have the postscript format. For example one file I recently printed was 6.2 Mb. The cheapest laser printer is HP 6L with 1 Mb of memory. Does t

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 18-Nov-97 skrifar Daniel Doro Ferrante: > > After that email, I tried to upgrade 'tetex-bin' but I also got > the same message: seg fault in the pre-inst AND pos-inst scripts !!! I > can't figure out what is happening. I tried to use libc6 and libc5 in > different ways in order to find

cannot find qt1g in unstable

1997-11-18 Thread Joop Stakenborg
Hi, I am trying to install the KDE desktop, which depends on qt1 and some if it's libraries on qt1g. I cannot find qt1q in the hamm distribution.. Can anyone help me with this? Thanks, Joop -- To reply remove the underscore from my e-mail address -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-m

Solved: Re: Accepting fax using external SupraFaxModem 28.8

1997-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: |Hello, | |I'm trying to recieve faxes using an external SupraFAXModem 28.8 |(upgraded to 33.6) and mgetty+sendfax. I used to be able to do that |but the configs were lost ages ago. | |What happens is that mgetty realizes that there is an incoming fax, |bu

Re: PAP & PPP, take 3

1997-11-18 Thread Alex Yukhimets
> this is where the problem is. PPP is the only way to connect to the > ISP, and they only use Internet Explorer. THey know nothing about how > to work this. > > On dialin, I get: > > CONNECT /ARQ/V34/LAPM/V42BIS > Rick, how do you configure Internet explore dialer? I understand you type in

Re: olvwm doesn't work

1997-11-18 Thread tibor simko
> "bill" == Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: bill> I get the same error. An X-session seems to start and then bill> closes down immediately. hmm. now you can do (for example) two things: 1) have you looked at what startx says about it, for example after some `startx >& /tmp/z'

How to mirror the unstable debian distribution non-free included and make a debian-cd with it?

1997-11-18 Thread Ranty
I have an slow link (33.600bps modem) so I can not go around downloading too many things, but I have the chance of getting all of it via ethernet, the problem is: -I have to get it in about 300MB pieces. I mean, I have plenty of room in my computer, but the notebook I have to use to

Re: Pentium error

1997-11-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 11:48:33AM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: > > There is a telnet daemon for NT. I do not know what it is called, but I have > > seen it in use. > > There is a telnetd for NT (I have a copy lying around somewhere) but > unless they have improved it dramitically it has some... err,

Re: LILO problems with NT OS loader

1997-11-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 11:23:19AM -0700, Robert Goodwin wrote: > I'm having a bit of a problem getting my OS loader to boot Linux using > LILO. I downloaded some instructions from www.windows-nt.com/multiboot on > this but they aren't working correctly although it seems like they should. > > w

Accepting fax using external SupraFaxModem 28.8

1997-11-18 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm trying to recieve faxes using an external SupraFAXModem 28.8 (upgraded to 33.6) and mgetty+sendfax. I used to be able to do that but the configs were lost ages ago. What happens is that mgetty realizes that there is an incoming fax, but somehow it can't read it. It seems like mgetty

Re: No PPP kernel support....

1997-11-18 Thread Lindsay Allen
I have had this message with a broken com port. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 9316 248632.0125S 115.8445Evk6lj =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

Unable to install Debian on Thinkpad 760E

1997-11-18 Thread Robert J. Alexander
Dear Debian fellows, I am a longtime Debian fan and have installed it on many machines including my previous Thinkpads (755CD and 760CD). I now have a new 760E and wanted to install from scratch. Unfortunately the boot floppy hangs. boot: Loading root.bin .. Loading linux

Re: MTA Suggestion

1997-11-18 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Joey Hess wrote: > > no it's not difficult. the PITA factor comes in because it has to > > be done for every account. As i said, i use procmail as the local > > delivery agent - which means that i need a global setting for it, > > not a per- user setting. > > Take a look at q

libc6

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Does anybody knows how to find the libc6 HowTo? I have just upgraded and ever since I have noticed some weird behavior on my machine. Thanks, Daniel. __ Daniel Doro Ferrante

Re: mp3 to wav

1997-11-18 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: : Hi! : : Anyone know of something that does mp3 to wav conversion? : Yes, l3dec, made by Fraunhofer. Remco -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: ncurses3.4

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi Galen, Here is what 'dpkg -l' gives me as an answer: ii libc5 5.4.33-7 The Linux C library version 5 (run-time ii libc6 2.0.5c-0.1 The GNU C library version 2 (run-time ii ldso1.9.2-3The Linux dynamic linker, librar

upgrade woes

1997-11-18 Thread Mauro Condarelli
Hi! I'm trying to upgrade from 1.1 to 1.3 I'm *sure* i saw a document specifying some manual operations needed before dselect, but i seem to be unable to find it any more. Can someone send me a pointer??? PLZ copy directly me, since i just subscribed to the list and i surely o not want the reply to

Re: /etc/hostname <-- FQDN?

1997-11-18 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 06:18:34PM +0100, Peter Prohaska wrote: > do I have to put the FQDN in here? In /etc/hostname, you just have to put the machine name, not the FQDN, eg machine. > And where is that information used for if I've got that /etc/hosts file > to handle local lookups. /etc/hosts

Re: [Q] Matrox Millennium II

1997-11-18 Thread Olivier THARAN
On Mon, Nov 17, 1997 at 07:16:37PM +, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: > The Matrox Millennium II is already supported or is it still in > experimental support stage? > "There is experimental support for the Matrox Millennium II, which for > the most part works, but DO NOT USE THIS ON PRODUCTI

Re: LILO problems with NT OS loader

1997-11-18 Thread Daniel Mashao
> -- > interzone:/etc# /sbin/lilo > Warning: /dev/hdd is not on the first disk > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible > Warning: BIOS drive 0x82 may not be accessible I struggled thru this myself recently. I finally had lilo booting NT.

Re: Q: Pointer for libc6 upgrade

1997-11-18 Thread Mark W. Eichin
>> Though I have not tried this yet (the machine with the >> development environment has not yet been upgraded) but I >> presume that by "... first purge all the '-dev' packages >> ..." he is referring to using dselect or dpkg ... Yes, exactly. Dselect handles this directly (though I'm the wrench

RE: My Laptop Video

1997-11-18 Thread David Puryear
Hi Andrew, Here is the place you are looking for: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Later, David On 17-Nov-97 Andrew Akins wrote: Many thanks to everyone who gave me help. The final working configuration for my Cirrus Logic GD7543:

Re: PAP & PPP, take 3

1997-11-18 Thread Rick Hawkins
> > Is there a way to get it to keep the whole log, rather than the last 20 > > or so entries? I haven't found it yet. > To see N last lines do: tail -N /var/log/messages ok, i thought that these were being put somewhereelse forsomereason.NN > Well, just as I thought, ppp is not started on the

Re: Tear-Drop (ip_fragment bug) anyone apply the patch?

1997-11-18 Thread George Bonser
Now this has me thinking (again). How come Debian never puts out kernel source patch packages? I mean if I want to go from 2.0.29 to 2.0.30, why should I have to download the entire kernel source package or apply non-debian patches? I think that patches that would upgrade a 2.0.29_? package to t

local e-mail message delivery from isp

1997-11-18 Thread David Stern
Hi, My isp provides a "Unix shell account", and because I pick my e-mail up from different platforms (Mac, PC, NeXT, Unix terms) and locations, it's been most practical for me to simpy telnet into my isp and run my (curses-based) e-mail program remotely via dialup networking from home. Not one t

Need help hacking print filter.

1997-11-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
I am printing postscript files to my HP DeskJet using printcap and a gs filter. Things work as expected, but I have several minor glitches that I can't figure out how to deal with. When I print a "plain ascii" file I simply cat the file to the printer. The printer defaults to "high quality" print

Proposal on PPP

1997-11-18 Thread A. M. Varon
Hi, [Hope some developers are listening.] Could it be possible that all default windows manager in debian have an Icon pointing to xisp (a graphical dialer, used to interface pppd/chat.)? It's very easy to setup even for a newbie. I think almos 30% of the traffic in the deban-user mailing lists

Re: X11 Installation

1997-11-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote: > > That solution will certainly not work like you say it. First libc6 would > > have to be installed. Before that, libc5 would have to be upgraded to > > 'unstable'. And before that, lsdo would have to be upgraded to 'unstable'. > > Also, locales would h

Re: Incorrect "no room" message on nfs-mounted /var/lib/dpkg

1997-11-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, David Gaudine wrote: > > I installed the Debian 1.3.1 base system from diskettes, on a system that > has only 32 megs disk space (not counting the swap partition). > I copied /usr and /var/lib/dpkg to a larger system (this one) and did > NFS mounts; > >Filesystem

Re: less than useful dselect/dpkg error msg

1997-11-18 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 16 Nov 1997, Bill Leach wrote: > I do know that dpkg does not pay any attention to the "hold" status in > the admin file when executed directly (which makes sense to me). That is because you will have to supply the -O option to dpkg if you want it to pay attention to that flag (which can

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