EtherNet startup parameter

1998-04-09 Thread Patrick L. McGillan
Hi, Add a line similar to this to your lilo.conf file and then rerun your lilo command. Use the settings appropriate for your system. append="ether=12,0x300,eth0" My system uses a Ne2000 set at INT 12 and IO of 300 Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Multi-tasking

1998-04-09 Thread Feng Qian
Dear Pete, Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is multitasking. (except NT4.0). However, the Linux is the Natural born multi-tasking OS. You are wasting the debian if you don't know this. Feng Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 15:55:29 -0500 (CDT) From: Pete Poff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To:

Re: CD-R, CD-RW

1998-04-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I've burned some CDs on a Pinnacle Micro CD writer successfully for the most part (I did have some failures). I was using X-CD-Roast which is Tcl/Tk GUI front end to cdrecord. There is a hamm package for it. I believe that X-CD-Roast is still in beta stages so it still a little buggy. For

Re: Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion

1998-04-09 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Ramon, On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ramon Olivella wrote: > In order to configure a graphic card under Debian 1.3.1 it doesn't appear in > the drivers > installation list. > These are my technical specifications : > Manufacturer : California Graphics > Model : 3D Emotion >

Re: visudo

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Corey Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > While I was editing my /etc/sudoers file using the visudo command, > my computer lost power. When I was able to restore power, everything > seemed to be functioning alright. Except, I tried to run the visudo > command, and got the following error: >

xlib6g installation problems

1998-04-09 Thread Atte Koivula
When I try to install xlib6g it gives me this error message: Setting up xlib6g(3.3.2-2) ... ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (No such file or directory, skipping) ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (No such file or directory, skipping) But when I l

Re: smail

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Ionut Borcoman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > > > (If you want an example exim.conf for a dialup system, I can send you > > mine) > > Can you send me the configuration files, please. And some info to > set up my e-mail system. Enough people (2) asked for t

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Mike Miller
With either emacs or xemacs, Gnus can be completely mouse driven. xemacs is likely to satisfy even the most pointy-and-clicky folks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Problem with SMTP

1998-04-09 Thread Adrian Monk
Having previously has smail, fetchmail and procmail working perfectly I now - after having had to re-install Debian - cannot get fetchmail to work. The error message "fetchmail: SMTP connect to (null) failed" keeps on appearing, in spite of my having reconfigured smail with smailconfig --force. If

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Richard Sevenich wrote: >Does debian include any sgml authoring tools as an alternative to >the brute force write-it-tags-and-all-with-an-editor approach? >Any hints would be appreciated. psgml is a package that adds SGML support to emacs and allows you to use xemacs pulldown menus to add SG

Re: Multi-tasking

1998-04-09 Thread Colin Telmer
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > > Is there a way I can multi-task in debian? Like with Win95, you can > > open two programs and switch between them. I compare files, and it would > > make my life easier if I could switch between two files, rather then > > editing it, looking a

visudo

1998-04-09 Thread Corey Miller
While I was editing my /etc/sudoers file using the visudo command, my computer lost power. When I was able to restore power, everything seemed to be functioning alright. Except, I tried to run the visudo command, and got the following error: visudo: sudoers file busy, try again later.

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Connecting Win95 to Linux(server/gateway)

1998-04-09 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Shortly I will be adding a second computer to my home office and I > would like to get a jump start on the documentation for networking the > two. My current machine dual boots Linux/Win95. The new machine will > probably stay all Win95.

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
On 09 Apr 1998 13:15:21 EDT, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Products that are DFSG compliant are Open Source compliant, and vice > versa. It's two names for the same thing. Suits understand `Open > Source' better than they understand `Free Software'; they have a > suspicion of anything that has `Free' in th

Re: Novell NDS compatiblity.

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Apr 05, 1998 at 09:07:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > > There is a program which provides a near full Novell 3.x > (BINDARY) emulation. It's the "mars" package. I don't know if there is a > debian package available. No, it is not. Hami

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 02:58:54AM -0400, Alain Toussaint wrote: > > here's the output of SuperProbe: > > First video: Super-VGA > Chipset: Oak OTI037C (Port Probed) > Memory: 256 Kbytes > RAMDAC: Generic 8-bit pseudo-color DAC > (with 6-bit wide lookup

Re: Patience, this will get longer

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 07:58:36PM +0200, Helmut Metzdorf wrote: > Since January I am trying to learn a bit about Linux, > and beeing lucky to find answers to most questions either > in the online documentation or else searching the www. > There are still two thing that bother me, 1st: though I´ve

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-09 Thread Paul Huygen
Richard Sevenich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Does debian include any sgml authoring tools as an alternative to >the brute force write-it-tags-and-all-with-an-editor approach? >Any hints would be appreciated. ^^^ OK, my 2ct: I understood that HTML is a subset of SGML. If you can live

Re: Motif

1998-04-09 Thread servis
On 9 Apr, Helmut Leinfellner wrote: > Hi ! > > I was trying to install XMCD and I think what I'm lacking is ... Motif. > > Where do I get it ? > Well since Motif libs cost about $100US you could go to your local sunsite mirror and go to the ../apps/sound/cdrom/X/ directory where there is a pre

no DRQ after issuing WRITE

1998-04-09 Thread Erik van der Meulen
Dear Debian people, Today I swapped my 486 board for a Pentium. Now I get the following error messages in my /var/log/messages: Apr 6 00:16:10 souterrain kernel: hda: status error: status=0x50 { DriveReady SeekComplete } Apr 6 00:16:10 souterrain kernel: hda: no DRQ aft

Problem with X and ViRGE card

1998-04-09 Thread John Plate
Hi I have an AOpen 3D Artist PT70 video card based on the ViRGE/DX chip. I can start the svga xserver and it seems to work. After selecting "exit" with the mouse, the xserver terminates and leaves the console corrupted. About every second character is visible. Apparently the video card has been

Re: Multi-tasking

1998-04-09 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- > Is there a way I can multi-task in debian? Like with Win95, you can > open two programs and switch between them. I compare files, and it would > make my life easier if I could switch between two files, rather then > editing it, looking at a section, quiting, then editing and comparing

Re: Scanners?

1998-04-09 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Don Berkich wrote: > I'm looking for advice on what flat-bed SCSI scanner to > buy; something in the $200 - $400 price range, if > possible. I've got Debian 1.3.1 on a Cyrix-166 machine > currently, but I'll soon be upgrading to a dual PII-300. > > Advice on what scanners to

Multi-tasking

1998-04-09 Thread Pete Poff
Is there a way I can multi-task in debian? Like with Win95, you can open two programs and switch between them. I compare files, and it would make my life easier if I could switch between two files, rather then editing it, looking at a section, quiting, then editing and comparing it with the o

About qt

1998-04-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, Again with similar message. Can somebody send me a Makefile for any of the qt tutorials from bo's qt ? Something to help me for the start. Please. I've tried something, but as I'm new to Linux I couldn't even compile the first tutorial example ! TIA, Ionutz -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Motif

1998-04-09 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
Hi ! I was trying to install XMCD and I think what I'm lacking is ... Motif. Where do I get it ? Thanks, Helmut --- Accept the challenge! http://fbma.tuwien.ac.at/~e8426331/ ... and write to me ! ---

Debian and ISDN: Getting there...

1998-04-09 Thread Atte Koivula
Ok, I think I'm finally getting somewhere with my ISDN configuration ;) I finally got HiSax working but I have run into some more problems (figures). My current problem is that I have no clue on how to configure the isdnutils package. Do I need to configure it in the 1st place or do I just need so

Re: smail

1998-04-09 Thread Ionut Borcoman
Hi, Daniel Martin at cush wrote: > (If you want an example exim.conf for a dialup system, I can send you > mine) Can you send me the configuration files, please. And some info to set up my e-mail system. I have an POP3 account and I aleready configured the ppp. The computer has only an dial-u

[OFF TOPIC] Connecting Win95 to Linux(server/gateway)

1998-04-09 Thread servis
Hi all, Shortly I will be adding a second computer to my home office and I would like to get a jump start on the documentation for networking the two. My current machine dual boots Linux/Win95. The new machine will probably stay all Win95. I have a dial-up PPP connection currently on the Linux

sgml authoring

1998-04-09 Thread Richard Sevenich
Does debian include any sgml authoring tools as an alternative to the brute force write-it-tags-and-all-with-an-editor approach? Any hints would be appreciated. TIA Richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can't get my mouse to work

1998-04-09 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Þann 09-Apr-98 skrifar Matt Kennedy: > PS/2 Mouse to Mouse Systems and change the location of the device to > /dev/gpmdata. /dev/gpmdata is a file GPM creates and stores the input from > the mouse to. This did the trick for me, so I hope it'll work for you. > I recently got myself a Logitech M

CERT Advisory CA-98.05 - bind_problems (fwd)

1998-04-09 Thread Curt Howland
Anyone know if the debian named/BIND is effected? Sorry if this has already been covered, I cannot keep up with the traffic on the users list, and there is no announcement on the Debian.org home page. Curt- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 17:46:07 -0400 From: CERT

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:49:47AM -0700, Rick Younie wrote: : I've put off learning Emacs for too long. Sounds like I'm just : re-inventing the wheel with the mail to news thing. Indeed. However, you don't need to learn the finger-breaking keystrokes emacs requires (sorry guys, what was that, m

Re: Problem CD-rom

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Gabrie van Zanten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I bought Debian 1.3.1 CD-version a few days ago. I have 2 computers: > Pentium2 with CD player and Win98 / WinNT 5.0 on it and a 486 no CD rom / > Win95 on it. What I did was copying the whole CD to the harddisk of the 486 > using Win95. Unf

Re: Emacs and RCS

1998-04-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ulisses> On 9 Apr 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: DZM> DZM> Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ulisses> I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info? Ulisses> (the RCS Howto doesn't tell too much) DZM> DZM> Look i

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
To clarify, RedHat is DFSG-compliant (it's listed in Open Source products), and Debian is Open Source-compliant (Open Source definition is DFSG), but because DFSG targets non-commercial software (ironically the same software that appears on commercial Linux distros) and Open Sour

Re: Emacs and RCS

1998-04-09 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again! On 9 Apr 1998, David Z. Maze wrote: > > Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ulisses> I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info? > Ulisses> (the RCS Howto doesn't tell too much) > > Look in the Emacs info, under

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
On 09 Apr 1998 10:35:20 EDT, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Hi, > > Are the terms "DFSG" and "Open Source" completely interchangeable or > not? They're based on identical wording. > > Yes, they are, AFAIK. On the one hand that's nice because it's completely interchangeable, on the other hand two names fo

Re: Newbie Setting up Fonts Server in X Windows

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Gnoh, Chee Seng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > >I recently installed Debian 1.3 and X Window on my machine. I tried > running AfterStep but it complained about some fonts (Adobe-Helvetica > ...) not found. I encountered the same font problem with other apps as > well. I used xinit to

Re: smail

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dave Elliot) writes: > I've asked a question about mail before and got a little help. I can now > run fetchmail(thanks to whoever showed me how to setup .fetchmailrc). So I > can READ my messages. However, I still don't know how to setup smail so I > can send my mail. I po

Re: Emacs and RCS

1998-04-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Ulisses Alonso Camaro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ulisses> I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info? Ulisses> (the RCS Howto doesn't tell too much) Look in the Emacs info, under "Version Control". -- _ / \ "The cat's b

Problem CD-rom

1998-04-09 Thread Gabrie van Zanten
Hi, I bought Debian 1.3.1 CD-version a few days ago. I have 2 computers: Pentium2 with CD player and Win98 / WinNT 5.0 on it and a 486 no CD rom / Win95 on it. What I did was copying the whole CD to the harddisk of the 486 using Win95. Unfortunately thats when the links got lost and Linux now can'

Re: iBCS2 with Unixware Oracle7 binaries

1998-04-09 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Helo Ben! On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Ben Cant wrote: > Hi there! > > I am trying to get Oracle running on my Debian Hamm box using iBCS2.2.0.33 I can't asnwer your question but maybe this helps: Oracle for SCO works fine If you want more info about it, email me

RE: Problems with ATI RAGE PRO AGP Card

1998-04-09 Thread Hogland, Thomas E.
I am working on the same thing with my system... Turns out you install the VGA server and get it running, then update to the latest X setup via FTP. Using the Mach64 server (I forget exactly which one - it was described as Rage II or Rage on my CD) should work fine... Good luck! >>

iBCS2 with Unixware Oracle7 binaries

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Cant
Hi there! I am trying to get Oracle running on my Debian Hamm box using iBCS2.2.0.33 971113-4, the main Oracle binary however makes a strange kernel call: getksym which according to Unixware is used to get kernel symbol info(kernel call 202 in unixware 2). Do you know how to go about finding th

Emacs and RCS

1998-04-09 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
Hi all! I would like to use RCS within emacs, Where I can more info? (the RCS Howto doesn't tell too much) Any comment will be greatly appreciated, Thanks in advance, Ulisses -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-09 Thread David Morris
It was a nice little piece. NPR has put it on their web page. If you have a RealAudio player installed (rvplayer is the wrapper deb) then you can point it at: http://www.npr.org/ramfiles/980408.atc.14.ram On "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 08:56:28 EDT." "' ALLAN W. BART" wove together: hi, I was listen

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Rick Younie
On 9 Apr 1998, Mike Miller wrote: > > Is Gnus able to use the References: line in mail messages > > to thread? > > Yes, Gnus uses the Reference: header(s) to build threads. If > references aren't available, it does what it can using Subject: > headers. It can also use "fuzzy" matching of

Re: Installing debian (fwd)

1998-04-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
[ Forwarded from private email. Note Reply-To ] Hi John, I don't use a SoundBlaster card, so I'm afraid I'll be of limited assistance here. I'm forwarded your question on to the debian user-list. I would imagine someone there could help. Let me know how it turns out! -- Nathan Norman MidcoNe

Outgoing Message Error

1998-04-09 Thread Michael Acklin
Hello, I have just installed majordomo version 1.94.1 on my Linux (debian) system, version 1.3.1, kernel 2.029. I am using smail version 3.2.3. All programs, majordomo and smail were compiled for debian linux version 1.31. I was wondering if anyone has seen this problem and if so

Re: infnan()?

1998-04-09 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You should also be able to use the constant _QNAN. Check out /usr/include/nan.h. Stuart Marshall wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() > works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, > there is a man page for infnan() but no such function > appears to be ava

Re: infnan()?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, there is a man page for infnan() but no such function appears to be available. Does anyone know the proper way to generate a NaN value? (I am using NaN as an initialization

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hi, Are the terms "DFSG" and "Open Source" completely interchangeable or not? They're based on identical wording. Yes, they are, AFAIK. http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines What's the relationship between Debian and Ope

Re: booting from dos

1998-04-09 Thread Joop
> Hie, > > At work, I've got a HP venturis FX2 with 1.2 Go hard disk with windows 3.11 > and > connected to a novel (HP3000) network. > > I am not allowed to partition or reformat the harddisk but I > would like to run linux on it. Is it possible to do ? How ? > There are a couple of distribu

Re: Tkdesk error

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
"Marc van der Vossen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Yes... Tell me, what does > > > >xlsfonts -fn "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-14-*" > > > > It says font unmatched > > >say? If it says nothing, do as root > > > >/var/lib/dpkg/info/xfnt100.postinst > > > >and then do "xset fp rehash" (as your re

Re: Where is XF86_SVGA package?

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
>Hello all, > >I have installed debian 1.3.1 and few other packages. I want to set up X >now and would like to know what packages do choose? can it be done form >the command line? Where are the packages(On the CDROM) that deals with X >server, configuration files and X softwares??? > >Any help wou

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Mike Miller
> "r3chard" == r3chard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is Gnus able to use the References: line in mail messages > to thread? Yes, Gnus uses the Reference: header(s) to build threads. If references aren't available, it does what it can using Subject: headers. It can also use "fuzzy"

Debian linux and X11 installation

1998-04-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Oliver Elphick wrote: > Valerie CAYOL wrote: > >I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian > >on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, > >and so far I have performed the basic installation. > >Severall problems have appeared : > >1- in the

Kernel version in Debian 2.0 - PARIDE support

1998-04-09 Thread Jeremy Malcolm
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- In view of the below: > The PARIDE drivers have been available as a standard feature of the > Linux developmental kernel since version 2.1.77, and will, therefore, > be available in the next stable kernel release. At that time, it would > be reasonable to expect

Linux On NPR

1998-04-09 Thread ' ALLAN W. BART
hi, I was listening to my local public radio station on wednesday and there was this 5 minute long program about linux. it was expansive, went into the whys of linux, even had a small interview with linus. so heads up it looks as if linux may be the the only viable alternative to microsoft dominat

Re: Help ! a message come from hanzhong China

1998-04-09 Thread Rev. Joseph Carter
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:15:52AM -0400, Fabien Ninoles wrote: > > i install the base system yesterday , and i have one ethernet > > board named > > "Novell NE2000 Compatible" , but the install program can not detect this > > hardware . i knew the card parameter is "io=3D280 irq=3D3" ,

Re: Help ! a message come from hanzhong China

1998-04-09 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:32:27AM +0800, Cai ShaoMin wrote: > i am a new debian linux user . > i install the base system yesterday , and i have one ethernet > board named > "Novell NE2000 Compatible" , but the install program can not detect this > hardware . i knew the card par

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 10:19:48PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In response to a question about threading debian-user, Mike wrote: > > > > I use Gnus - a powerful, customizable news- and mail-reading part > > of emacs (and xemacs). It will thread, score, sort and do just > > about anything yo

Re: hanging on boot; NFS problem in 2.0

1998-04-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Geza Gyorgyi wrote: > The 2.0 rescue disk (both the February and the March versions) may have > an incorrect "mount", neither I nor the local Linux guru could install > the base system by NFS. Furthermore, it can be useful to have the FTP > option for installing the base sy

booting from dos

1998-04-09 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Hie, At work, I've got a HP venturis FX2 with 1.2 Go hard disk with windows 3.11 and connected to a novel (HP3000) network. I am not allowed to partition or reformat the harddisk but I would like to run linux on it. Is it possible to do ? How ? Thanks Franck -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Fw: (RFD) New list proposal - debian-unstable@lists.debian.org

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
I forwarded this mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sure they will let you know what they think. Marcus On Mon, Apr 06, 1998 at 03:43:54PM -0300, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > >> I suggest a new list for this second purpose - tracking bugs and > problems > >> with the unstable (or,

Re: your mail

1998-04-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hello Valerie, On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 10:47:31PM +0200, Valerie CAYOL wrote: > I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian > on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, > and so far I have performed the basic installation. > Severall problems have appeared : > 1- in the s

Re: linux debian installation preserving dos

1998-04-09 Thread Joost Kooij
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote: > Thank you, It worked, I preserved my dos pqrtition and > I mounted new linux partitions. the dos partition is visble from > linux. However, lilo does not allow to boot on dos > anymore. Instead I have to boot on a floppy !!! Hi, Booting from floppy is a

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-09 Thread Damon Muller
Mildy suprised someone hasn't already mentioned this. There is a program called SUDO, which has a debian package. It allows selected users to run selected programs as root, without them having to su to root. It's really easy to use. I use it on my laptop, both to shut it down, and run APM to susp

Re:Xwindows

1998-04-09 Thread Geza Gyorgyi
> BTY in the rc*.d directories there is the K99xdm and S99xdm > files to bring up Xwindows at boot time but they do the same thing as > xdm does from the command line, apparently nothing. > > The console messages appear to me like the Xclient isn't coming up for > the server to connect to. > John

Problems with ATI RAGE PRO AGP Card

1998-04-09 Thread Andre Byström
Hi As a new user of linux i wounder how to get and install XFree86 3.3.2 for debian. I have heard that support for ati rage pro AGP card driver comes with that package, im i wrong? I have found it at ftp.funet.fi but witch part am i gone download ? And how do i install it? do i really have to ins

Re: tape drive

1998-04-09 Thread Joerg Friedrich
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, dpk wrote: > I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, > and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: > > Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision:

Re: infnan()?

1998-04-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Hi, > > I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() > works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, > there is a man page for infnan() but no such function > appears to be available. Did you, by chance, forget to link the math library (-lm switch)? Eric -- E.L. Meijer ([E

infnan()?

1998-04-09 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I would like to use NaN's. It appears that isnan() works as advertised so I can check for NaN. However, there is a man page for infnan() but no such function appears to be available. Does anyone know the proper way to generate a NaN value? (I am using NaN as an initialization value so that

Re: Can't get my mouse to work

1998-04-09 Thread Matt Kennedy
Hi Dan, I had the same problem when I installed Linux 2 months ago. Some people have been fortunate enough to have their PS/2 mouse work, but I wasn't one of them. After asking around I found the answer that worked for me. Get the GPM package if you don't have it already. When you install GPM it

Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
Hi, Are the terms "DFSG" and "Open Source" completely interchangeable or not? They're based on identical wording. http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines What's the relationship between Debian and Open Source? (I know they share webspace,

Unidentified subject!

1998-04-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
Valerie CAYOL wrote: >I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian >on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, >and so far I have performed the basic installation. >Severall problems have appeared : >1- in the section of the configuration called Configure device dr

Re: tape drive

1998-04-09 Thread Oliver Elphick
dpk wrote: >I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, >and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: > > Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 > Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 > >howeve

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-09 Thread Alain Toussaint
> First of all I notice that you are saying that you only have > 256k of video ram. If this is the case then you cannot even > run 640x480x256 color mode. This requires a least 1 meg of > video ram. At 256K of video ram 320x200 mode is the only mode > that you can possible run which is atrociou

Re: your mail

1998-04-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:20:31AM +0800, Lindsay Allen wrote: > On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote: > > 1- in the section of the configuration called Configure device driver I was > > not able to find the internet card I am using. > > This card is compatible Ne 2000, at irq = 11 and io = \0xF

Re: clean shutdown

1998-04-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 12:31:30PM -0400, David B Wilson wrote: > Is there a way to do a clean shutdown without becoming root? > (Preferably still restricting access to those who can push the power button.) Either use the super or sudo package or install perl-suid and create a small suid perl scrip

Modem installation

1998-04-09 Thread FRANCK . F . L . LEGALL
Sorry for the question since it is not directly debian-related. I bought a US Robotics external modem. I don't find any documentation saying how to install it, how to access my internet provider (do I need ppp, sendmail...?). Could anyone point me to the good way. Thanks in advance Franck --

[mfhanzh@public.xa.sn.cn: Help ! a message come from hanzhong China]

1998-04-09 Thread Hanno Wagner
FYI - Forwarded message from Cai ShaoMin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: "Cai ShaoMin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Help ! a message come from hanzhong China Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 08:32:27 +0800 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet Mail 4.

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-09 Thread r3chard
In response to a question about threading debian-user, Mike wrote: > > I use Gnus - a powerful, customizable news- and mail-reading part > of emacs (and xemacs). It will thread, score, sort and do just > about anything you want to your mail. Is Gnus able to use the References: line in mail messag

Newbie Setting up Fonts Server in X Windows

1998-04-09 Thread Gnoh, Chee Seng
Hi, I recently installed Debian 1.3 and X Window on my machine. I tried running AfterStep but it complained about some fonts (Adobe-Helvetica ...) not found. I encountered the same font problem with other apps as well. I used xinit to start. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I understand

Where is XF86_SVGA package?

1998-04-09 Thread sohel
Hello all, I have installed debian 1.3.1 and few other packages. I want to set up X now and would like to know what packages do choose? can it be done form the command line? Where are the packages(On the CDROM) that deals with X server, configuration files and X softwares??? Any help would be gr

mh isn't sending (exim is mta)

1998-04-09 Thread adavis
When I try to send a message now, using the comp/send programs in mh, I am getting this message for a valid user: What now? send -watch user at domain: loses; [USER] 550 relaying to prohibited by administrator post: 1 addressee undeliverable send: message not delivered to anyone Can someone gi

print spooling disabled

1998-04-09 Thread zhang xu
hi, I try to use the hp5l printer on the remote win95 pc. I read the HOWTO file and got the smbprint and printcap,but I found the "spooling disabled" when I use lpq. what's wrong? printcap: # //kuosj/hp5l via smbprint # lp|hp5l:\ :cm=HP 5L hp5l on kuosj:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:\ :sd=/va

Re: Printing with an old tractor

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Subject: Re: Printing with an old tractor Well, that's your problem rat chair - you s'ppose t' be _plowin'_ with a tractor, not printin'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

XF86Setup

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Elliot
Hi, I'm having problems getting XF86Setup to setup up X properly. First, let me give you my system info. Graphics Card:Cirrus Logic GD6420 VRAM:1 MB Now, there's a couple things to know about this card. First, it allows a 'dual monitor' mode. It's on a laptop, and I can plug a crt into the c

smail

1998-04-09 Thread Dave Elliot
Hello, I've asked a question about mail before and got a little help. I can now run fetchmail(thanks to whoever showed me how to setup .fetchmailrc). So I can READ my messages. However, I still don't know how to setup smail so I can send my mail. I posted a little info about my connection/ho

Re: your mail

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
> > >On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote: > >> I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian >> on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, >> and so far I have performed the basic installation. >> Severall problems have appeared : >> 1- in the section of the configuration

Re: tape drive

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have an exabyte 8mm tape drive. I have compiled in scsi support, and scsi tape drive support into the kernel. It shows up in dmesg: Vendor: EXABYTE Model: EXB-8200 Rev: 2618 Type: Sequential-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 01 however, a device is no

Re: your mail

1998-04-09 Thread Lindsay Allen
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Valerie CAYOL wrote: > I have been desperatly trying to install linux debian > on my pc. I am using a CD provided by the magazine dream, > and so far I have performed the basic installation. > Severall problems have appeared : > 1- in the section of the configuration called C

Re: KDElibs vs qt1 and libgif2

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
>Matt Kennedy wrote: > >> library files needed to run KDE on Debian (I think it takes care of >> libgif2). You also need to get QT version 1.3 or better. KDE's site has a >> link to Troll Tech who makes QT where you can get the current version 1.33. > > >I found that KDE required QT1, but the packa

Re: LibICE and general X install

1998-04-09 Thread Graham Pople
>When trying to install lib6 and many x-related packages to get x running, I >keep being unable to install them, as dpkg tells me that I haven't got >libICE something-or-other. I looked thru www.debian.org/packages and can't >find it. > I got this when installing xlib6. However, I just installed it