SOLVED: Netscape bus error :(

1998-03-19 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Alex! Sasha > Netscape gives me bus error when I try to start it. Alex Romosan> i had to remove the awe-netscape package to get it to work. netscape kept core dumping once i updated it to version 0.4.2c-2. Yes, That was it! Just to purge awe-netscape. Art>You must install x

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-19 Thread Bruce Perens
I would counsel against panic. There are 300 developers, and some of them are _smart_. Nobody was essential, especially me. Bruce -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-19 Thread Bruce Perens
> I'd like to know what will happen to the Debian trademark and > the logo as well as the hardware and other (non-human)resources > Debian Project currently has? Will they remain with Debian? Regarding hardware, SPI owns one disk drive, I think. All other hardware is owned by the people who do

Turning on NumLock with X

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
Is there any way to get X to turn on NumLock when it starts up? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- According to my calculations, that prob

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-19 Thread R.A. Sevenich
I don't know the details of the war that led to Bruce's decision. My concern is that we have not only lost Bruce, but that the wise overview, philosophy as embedded in his approach has been lost as well. As a user I am really wondering what to do - I fear for Debian's future viability if the deve

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-19 Thread Tommi Kaariainen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) writes: > There was some question on this list yesterday regarding whether I would > leave Debian. It is indeed true. I will remain as president of SPI and > will redirect SPI's mission to be for all free software rather than just > for Debian. I'm sorry it had to

Re: is this the end of debian?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
>No it certainly is not. We have over 300 developers. The loss of >Bruce, though not necessarily a good thing, will not destroy us. i am not so sure about that. as far as i am concerned bruce was the moral authority behind this project. we might have 300 developers, but who is going to make sure

Re: is this the end of debian?

1998-03-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
is this the end of debian as we know it. i am wondering about this- any thoughts. No it certainly is not. We have over 300 developers. The loss of Bruce, though not necessarily a good thing, will not destroy us. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> Brian> Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically > Brian> got focus if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option > Brian> could be tri-state: never, always, if-parent-has-focus. > > Couls you see if the Next [*] Focus bound to, say, F12 would > solve it for y

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Brian" == Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically Brian> got focus if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option Brian> could be tri-state: never, always, if-parent-has-focus. Couls you see if the Next [*]

is this the end of debian?

1998-03-19 Thread ' ALLAN W. BART
hi, is this the end of debian as we know it. i am wondering about this- any thoughts. allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, In fvwm2, you can set your key bindings to do something like that. Key F10 RAPrev [*] Focus Key F11 RANext [*] Focus Manoj __ Current [conditions] command Performs command on

Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 11:09:28AM -0800, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: > Milan Zimmermann writes: > > > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: > >> > >> I went and largely read the instructions. "largely" meaning that my > >> spanish > >> is very rusty, and this was in portugese :) > > I think I los

Re: smail (again..... sheesh..)

1998-03-19 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 12, 1998 at 01:08:13PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 12 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > No such thing as a stupid question :) > > Will Richard Stallman ever work for Microsoft? And the other way round ? > Sorry, couldn't resist. Serious ;) Marcus -- "Rhubarb is no E

Re: Netscape bus error :(

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
i had to remove the awe-netscape package to get it to work. netscape kept core dumping once i updated it to version 0.4.2c-2. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneously with | | automatism and othe

Re: hamm: no mouse, no modem, MS again

1998-03-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Art Lemasters wrote: > "...device not supported..." ttyS0 and ttyS1 disappeared after > the most recent hamm upgrade. I modified 0setserial (and yes, > 16550A's _do_ so exist), and something else is trying to configure > the ports, but I don't know what it is. I have

Re: Netscape bus error :(

1998-03-19 Thread Art Lemasters
On 19 Mar 98 at 10:37, Sasha wrote: > Hi, > > Netscape gives me bus error when I try to start it. I do admit that it's my You must install xlib6 (not xlib6g) with dpkg, and from Alex Romosan's private site (see his e-mail from yesterday for URL; it is not on the Debian ftp server), then yo

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Thu, Mar 19, 1998 at 12:32:10PM -0500, Brian White wrote: > Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically got focus > if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option could be tri-state: > never, always, if-parent-has-focus. Great idea! If this could be a style option then

Re: modules

1998-03-19 Thread shaul
> When I did "make-kpkg --zimage buildpackage" > I eventually got > dpkg-gencontrol: failure: chown new files list file: Illegal seek > make[1]: *** [stamp-source] Error 29 > (I'm assuming that's what you meant when you said "run make-kpkg".) > In any case, there's no .deb file to install. (I'm as

Bruce pernes.

1998-03-19 Thread shaul
Can someone summarize for those who are not on the devel list what they are arguing about ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Netscape Communicator and Mail

1998-03-19 Thread shaul
> I have downloaded the Communicator 4.03 and successfully installed. But, even > that I am reading the HOWTO's I am still confused about PPP configuration. > Every Linux flavor come with other configuration files. > > !!! Can somebody please help me ??? !!! I suggest that beside the PPP-HOWTO

Re: modules

1998-03-19 Thread shaul
> When I boot, there are complaints of unresolved symbols in modules > such as ppp and pcmcia. This is with a recently compiled 2.0.30 > kernel (and I did make modules and modules_install). Advice? Perhaps you should make changes in /etc/modules ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the cheapest SCSI board supported?

1998-03-19 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Glenn Tenney KOTJ wrote: > 2. What's the cheapest SCSI board I can add that will work for this > purpose... and ideally maybe allow some other devices in the future? > > I found an Adaptec AVA 1505 at Fry's for about $64. There was some clone > cheaper, but would have cost

hamm: no mouse, no modem, MS again

1998-03-19 Thread Art Lemasters
"...device not supported..." ttyS0 and ttyS1 disappeared after the most recent hamm upgrade. I modified 0setserial (and yes, 16550A's _do_ so exist), and something else is trying to configure the ports, but I don't know what it is. I have a very typical iVX- type mainboard here. And BTW,

RE: dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink'

1998-03-19 Thread Mike Hill
Mine qualifies: it's 2.1.82. I'll try a newer kernel. Thanks, Mike > -Original Message- > From: David Z. Maze [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 1998 2:27 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink' > > Mike H

TRANSLATION Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-19 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Here it goes. It comes from: http://www.pro-unix.org/~puma/ I translated the most important items: 2, 3 and 7. Please, since I don't have time to deal with it, if you send the author this translation, please give me credit. If you're putting this info in another site on your own, please give cr

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-19 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Bruce Perens wrote: > There was some question on this list yesterday regarding whether I > would leave Debian. It is indeed true. I will remain as president of > SPI and will redirect SPI's mission to be for all free software rather > than just for Debian. I'm sorry it had to

Re: What's the cheapest SCSI board supported?

1998-03-19 Thread Jeff Noxon
If it's a PCI machine, get one of the PCI NCR boards from some place like Promox. They advertise in Linux Journal; I think the cards are about $50. They're not the best, but they're fairly fast and get the job done better than any cheap Adaptec board. On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 03:14:27PM -0700, Gl

Re: HP Laserjet 6L

1998-03-19 Thread Samuli Suonpaa
Stefan Baums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is anyone running the HP Laserjet 6L with Debian GNU/Linux? I'm using > magicfilter 1.2-20, and the 6L is not in magicfilterconfig's list of suppor= > ted > printers. Can I use another filter (say, for the 4L) and will I be able to = > get > 600x600 dpi wi

Re: dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink'

1998-03-19 Thread David Z. Maze
Mike Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MH> Is there something I can do to get around this error? MH> dpkg: error processing tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (--install): MH> error setting ownership of symlink MH> `usr/doc/tk4.2/changelog.gz': No such file or directory This sounds like a problem that cam

Re: the instructions for win95 under dosemu

1998-03-19 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Milan Zimmermann writes: > Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: >> >> I went and largely read the instructions. "largely" meaning that my spanish >> is very rusty, and this was in portugese :) I think I lost the original post, and cannot find the reference. Can you send to the list? I speak both Port

Re: sendmail ignores /etc/hosts

1998-03-19 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > sendmail seems to ignore the entries in /etc/hosts, relying instead on > doing a DNS lookup for each message. smail does this also. Is there a > way to configure it to look first at /etc/hosts and use the DNS only if > the address cannot be resolved ther

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-19 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > ok, how about this: > someone try it, and tell us if it works, I would but I erased w95 from my > computer about 6 months ago, and I don't want to re-install unless someone > confirms this.. As I said: it works for some people and doesn't for others (di

Re: HP Laserjet 6L

1998-03-19 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Stefan Baums wrote: > Hi all, > > is anyone running the HP Laserjet 6L with Debian GNU/Linux? I'm using > magicfilter 1.2-20, and the 6L is not in magicfilterconfig's list of supported > printers. Can I use another filter (say, for the 4L) and will I be able to get > 600x600

HP Laserjet 6L

1998-03-19 Thread Stefan Baums
Hi all, is anyone running the HP Laserjet 6L with Debian GNU/Linux? I'm using magicfilter 1.2-20, and the 6L is not in magicfilterconfig's list of supported printers. Can I use another filter (say, for the 4L) and will I be able to get 600x600 dpi with that? Thanks for your help, Stefan pgpzwn

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Keith Beattie
Brian White wrote: > > Perhaps it would be best if the transient only automatically got focus > if its parent already had focus? Perhaps this option could be tri-state: > never, always, if-parent-has-focus. ^^^ This is an excellent idea. It would solve both our

dpkg: `error setting ownership of symlink'

1998-03-19 Thread Mike Hill
Is there something I can do to get around this error? debian# dpkg -i tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (Reading database ... 36894 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking tk4.2 (from tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb) ... dpkg: error processing tk4.2.4.2p2-7.deb (--install):

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> > Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get > > focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to > > move the mouse to that window. Perhaps for you, but for me, it's just the opposite. I hate touching the mouse. When I do a "search" i

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> > Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get > > focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to > > move the mouse to that window. > > I don't think so. > > You can give focus to any window easily, but the command has to be run > from

Re: backup howto needed!

1998-03-19 Thread dpk
I would use the 'dump' program to do tape backups. (Found in 'utils' section) It has a interactive tool called 'restore'. Once installed the documentation under /usr/doc for it will get you going. Dennis -- dpk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Network Administrator | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering

backup howto needed!

1998-03-19 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I just received a sony dds tape drive for our linux server and now I would like to do backups of some data. I have tried with tar but with little success; I can do a tar cvf /dev/st0 /home and it seems to do the job. But I wasn't able to recover a single file from the tape wit

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Keith Beattie
Brian White wrote: > > Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get > focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to > move the mouse to that window. > If you have any windows that pop up automatically, like calander reminders, error wind

Netscape bus error :(

1998-03-19 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Netscape gives me bus error when I try to start it. I do admit that it's my fault as I made hamm update yesterday, which was not a particularly good moment. But if someone knows how to get around this problem, please let me know. If an answer is just to wait till things settle down it's

Re: /etc/modules

1998-03-19 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Graham! I have the similar problem which I cured by modifying /etc/init.d/modutils to allow calculation of module dependencies first. ( I do not no much about this mechanism, but why it's not a default behaviour? Just wondering) Here: # # If you want to re-calculate the dependencies e

Re: Where can I find "ar" (archive maintainer) source?

1998-03-19 Thread Santiago Vila Doncel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Won-Ho Kye wrote: > Where can I obtain "ar" source? First, we need to know where it comes from: $ which ar /usr/bin/ar $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ar binutils: /usr/bin/ar So "ar" is part of the binutils package. Current (hamm) binutils source is

Re: GIMP Problem in hamm

1998-03-19 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Joey! If I'm not mistaken gimp version 0.99.21-2 is not in hamm distribution yet. Sasha. > Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > > When I enter "gimp" as a command in afterstep (in hamm), I > > > receive only the following: > > > - > > > gimp: error in loading shared libraries >

Re: Netscape Communicator and Mail

1998-03-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Ionut Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Here are my configurations from my ISP: > > > > > > IP: dynamical assigned > > > DNS: 195.179.251.65 > > > > > > phone number: 2221479 (pulse line) > > > username: borco (with PAP authentication) > > > password: > > > modem: USRobotics Sportst

Installing Debian on system with AIC7770

1998-03-19 Thread NiElS
Hi All, I'm trying to install Debian on a system which has a AIC7770. However, while booting the first disk (either from disk or with loadlin) I get a kernel panic: aic7xxx: (aic7xxx_isr) Encountered spurious interrupt. scsi0: BRKADRINT (error(0x1): Illegal Host Access Kernel panic: scsi0: BRKA

RE: Netscape Communicator and Mail

1998-03-19 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, I have all these files excepting the "options.tpl". Instead I have a bare "option" file and an "option.ttyXX". So, if can give more hints you'll help me a lot. TIA, Ionutz On Thursday, March 19, 1998 9:27 AM, Andrew Cutler [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I've just been through t

RE: Netscape Communicator and Mail

1998-03-19 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, I have followed the guidelines with no success. After pppd nothing happens. Also, there's nothing there about PAP authentication. Ionutz On Thursday, March 19, 1998 5:50 AM, Jack Kern [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Hi, > > > > > For a clear and

Magic filter and page length

1998-03-19 Thread Robin Davis
Hello, I am feeling seriously stupid. I've got Debian 1.3.1 running like a little angel - EXCEPT for the flaming page length on my crusty old epson 9 pin printer. I've installed Magicfilter; I've got papersize set to a4 in \etc, but there doesn't seem to be anywhere in Star Office 4 or Debian, to

Re: Multi-line greeting from xdm?

1998-03-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
One must be aware of security hole which may be created by runing the display or xv from Xsetup_0 (it will run with root uid !). On my machine I use the xmessage for this purpose, which is much safer... (I hope :-). Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mailing list...

1998-03-19 Thread Ossama Othman
> I saw your mailing list on the internet.. While I was doing a search for > information on Ethernets.. I would like to get on your mailing list.. thanks > my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the 0 in Ziota is a zero..) You are sending your request to subscribe to the wrong place, and also doing it i

Help! Can not initdb first time!

1998-03-19 Thread hal
I started with Debian 3. I am using Gnu's make 1.76, Linux kernel 2.0.33. Bash 2 I am tring to get PostgreSQL on my box. I am able to complie with no error. Install says all is done, but on the next step for the install: (the first initdb) this is what I get. postgres:~/ initdb initdb: error: data

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread john
Alex Romosan writes: > i don't have too much faith in the leadership abilities of the young > turks who ousted him. Nobody "ousted" Bruce but Bruce. You do realize that Ian has been Debian Project Leader for some time now, don't you? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse H

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get > focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to > move the mouse to that window. Someone created a patch for fvwm2 to do just these kind of things. Ch

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Austin Donnelly
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Brian White wrote: > Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get > focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to > move the mouse to that window. I don't think so. You can give focus to any window easily, but the c

/etc/modules

1998-03-19 Thread Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131
Hi all, Just a quicky, I have just compiled sound support (as a module) into my kernel and want to load the sound module everytime I boot, I places 'sound' in the /etc/modules files , where all the other modules are listed i.e. vfat, ne etc but when I boot it says it can't find the module sound.

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
i am in the process of making one right now (+ trying to close some of the bugs present in 3.3.1). if i am successful i will announce it to the list tomorrow. --alex-- -- | I believe the moment is at hand when, by a paranoiac and active | | advance of the mind, it will be possible (simultaneous

Unidentified subject!

1998-03-19 Thread Andrew Sharff
Does anyone out there have a debian installation package (.deb) for the latest release of Xfree83 - 3.3.2. If so, can you send it to me/tell me where I can pick it up. Thanks Andrew Sharff ==+ Dr. Andrew J. Sharff, B.S

Mailing list...

1998-03-19 Thread Zi0ta
I saw your mailing list on the internet.. While I was doing a search for information on Ethernets.. I would like to get on your mailing list.. thanks my e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED] (the 0 in Ziota is a zero..) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Dual Booting Win NT and Debian

1998-03-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 02:36:56PM -, Tristan Day wrote: > After going through the 'NT OS Loader + Linux mini-HOWTO,' I managed to dual > boot Linux and NT, but only using a boot floppy for Linux. Although I am > pleased that this time I installed Debian it didn't lock me out of NT, I > still

What's the cheapest SCSI board supported?

1998-03-19 Thread Glenn Tenney KOTJ
I've got a spare TEAC data cassette tape drive that I'd like to connect up and use for backups which generates two questions... 1. Am I likely to find that this tape drive will work for backups? 2. What's the cheapest SCSI board I can add that will work for this purpose... and ideally maybe allow

Re: multi-tray IDE CDrom drives

1998-03-19 Thread Daich Chow
Norbert Veber wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 07:08:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Picked up a NEC 4 tray IDE CDrom drive. Debian sees the base tray (1 of 4). > > How does one access the other 3 trays? It would be cool to be able to load > > binary and source disks into the same drive

Re: GIMP Problem in hamm

1998-03-19 Thread alemas
> Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > > When I enter "gimp" as a command in afterstep (in hamm), I > > > receive only the following: > > > - > > > gimp: error in loading shared libraries > > > /usr/lib/libgdk.so.1: undefined symbol: XListInputDevices > > > - > > > > Same

gcc problems

1998-03-19 Thread Jeff Shilt
I am using the Debian 2.0 distribution, and recently installed the various development packages. When I used a configure script for a program, it says: checking whether the C compiler (gcc ) works... yes (other stuff) checking for c++... no checking for g++... no checking for gcc... ye

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread alemas
> >> so what are we going to do if the xlib6 maintainer doesn't fix this > >> soon? are we going to release a distribution without essential > >> packages? who is going to use that? > > > >I don't think it will happen. > > i wouldn't really bet on it. some people these days seem really > determin

Re: Debian and Pgp w/ RSA support?

1998-03-19 Thread Ben Pfaff
Does anyone know if one of the newer versions of Pgp (like 5.0 or so...) has been complied with RSA key support for Debian? The international version of pgp5 is available at nonus.debian.org. I don't know about `RSA key support'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Debian and Pgp w/ RSA support?

1998-03-19 Thread Steven Morrill
Hello All Does anyone know if one of the newer versions of Pgp (like 5.0 or so...) has been complied with RSA key support for Debian? -- Steve __ == > Steve Morrill+

Re: fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
>Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get >focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to >move the mouse to that window. i think i am not answering exactly what are you asking, but did you try putting Style "*" ClickToFocus in ~/.fv

Re: GIMP Problem in hamm

1998-03-19 Thread Joey Hess
Alexander Kushnirenko wrote: > > When I enter "gimp" as a command in afterstep (in hamm), I > > receive only the following: > > - > > gimp: error in loading shared libraries > > /usr/lib/libgdk.so.1: undefined symbol: XListInputDevices > > - > > Same thing here. Upgra

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
>> so what are we going to do if the xlib6 maintainer doesn't fix this >> soon? are we going to release a distribution without essential >> packages? who is going to use that? > >I don't think it will happen. i wouldn't really bet on it. some people these days seem really determined to make a poin

Re: Windows under DosEmu

1998-03-19 Thread Norbert Veber
> > Do you have a URL of the mini-HOWTO? ok, how about this: someone try it, and tell us if it works, I would but I erased w95 from my computer about 6 months ago, and I don't want to re-install unless someone confirms this.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: netscape install

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> > I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The > > netscape > > loader is for version 3.01. "ftp.netscape.com" only has version 3.04 or the > > newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system > > is > > a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
>can get it by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian. there >are some more goodies in there, including versions of ddd, xmcd, and >xmmix linked against motif 2.1 (libc6). hope this helps. i forgot to mention that the packages depend on motif2g. on my system i made a debian package out

Re: netscape install

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
> I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape > loader is for version 3.01. "ftp.netscape.com" only has version 3.04 or the > newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is > a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get netscape installe

fvwm question: can I make transients take focus?

1998-03-19 Thread Brian White
Is there any way under fvwm2 to make all transient windows automatically get focus when they appear? It would be much more convienient than having to move the mouse to that window. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread aqy6633
> >Well, it was not the best time to install hamm... > >It was just frozen and many packages having serious bugs were > >(temporarily) removed from the archive. Hopefully, xlib6 maintainer will > >fix that soon... > > so what are we going to do if the xlib6 maintainer doesn't fix this > soon? are

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread finn
On Wed, 18 Mar 1998, Alex Romosan wrote: : >Well, it was not the best time to install hamm... : >It was just frozen and many packages having serious bugs were : >(temporarily) removed from the archive. Hopefully, xlib6 maintainer will : >fix that soon... : : so what are we going to do if the xlib

Re: Where can I find "ar" (archive maintainer) source?

1998-03-19 Thread aqy6633
ar? In binutils package. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \(")| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +--

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
>Well, it was not the best time to install hamm... >It was just frozen and many packages having serious bugs were >(temporarily) removed from the archive. Hopefully, xlib6 maintainer will >fix that soon... so what are we going to do if the xlib6 maintainer doesn't fix this soon? are we going to re

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread Alex Romosan
i've made a copy of xlib6 (using dpkg-repack) so i hope it works. you can get it by anonymous ftp from caliban.lbl.gov in /pub/debian. there are some more goodies in there, including versions of ddd, xmcd, and xmmix linked against motif 2.1 (libc6). hope this helps. btw, i've been watching with ho

Re: xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread aqy6633
> I just installed hamm via a combination of floppies and FTP. I've just about > got everything I need done, except for one show-stopper: I need netscape to > do my work, I can't install netscape without the xlib6 package, and xlib6 is > AWOL from every debian mirror I checked. > > Ack! Where is i

Where can I find "ar" (archive maintainer) source?

1998-03-19 Thread Won-Ho Kye
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Re: modules

1998-03-19 Thread David B Wilson
Did you do a depmod -a when you rebooted? "depmod -a" also complains about all sorts of unresolved symbols. Also, the man page suggests putting this line in a file in /etc/rc.d/ There is no such directory, but all kinds of files match /etc/rc?.d/* David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

xlib6 missing from hamm?

1998-03-19 Thread Mark Cornick
Hello, I just installed hamm via a combination of floppies and FTP. I've just about got everything I need done, except for one show-stopper: I need netscape to do my work, I can't install netscape without the xlib6 package, and xlib6 is AWOL from every debian mirror I checked. Ack! Where is it? M

Re: Three questions regarding new install (Win95 sharing and FTP and kernel)

1998-03-19 Thread aqy6633
> 2. After installation is complete, if I want to remove an item from the > install (I added IPX and don't want it), how do I accomplish this? (I > only have the basic installation right now... see #3. Edit /etc/modules and remove the line with ipx > 3. Due to "factors beyond my control", this L

Three questions regarding new install (Win95 sharing and FTP and kernel)

1998-03-19 Thread richard huntrods
Hi all. I have installed the bo version of Debian and am very happy with it. I have three questions (I have read a fair number of docs and faqs, but have not found simple answers). 1. During the install, I enabled Windows95 file sharing. How do I actually set this up? 2. After installation is

Re: how can I find broken symlinks

1998-03-19 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998, Florian Attenberger wrote: > "ldconfig" shows me, that it can not find some files. > I think, its because of broken symbolic links > > How can I find these links? You can find them with the symlinks command from the symlinks package. But be careful when actually chan

Re: multi-tray IDE CDrom drives

1998-03-19 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Mar 18, 1998 at 07:08:59AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Picked up a NEC 4 tray IDE CDrom drive. Debian sees the base tray (1 of 4). > How does one access the other 3 trays? It would be cool to be able to load > binary and source disks into the same drive and have access to both (probab

Re: modules

1998-03-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"David" == David B Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> I'd suggest building and installing your kernel using the David> kernel-package package. The basic sequence is 'make config', David> run make-kpkg to build the kernel and make a Debian package David> from it, and then use dpkg to

how can I find broken symlinks

1998-03-19 Thread Florian Attenberger
Hi, "ldconfig" shows me, that it can not find some files. I think, its because of broken symbolic links How can I find these links? Thanx Florian Attenberger -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GIMP Problem in hamm

1998-03-19 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
> When I enter "gimp" as a command in afterstep (in hamm), I > receive only the following: > - > gimp: error in loading shared libraries > /usr/lib/libgdk.so.1: undefined symbol: XListInputDevices > - Same thing here. Sasha. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT