Re: smail

1998-04-10 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 this that

xlib6g installation problems

1998-04-10 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

Re: visudo

1998-04-10 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:

Re: Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion

1998-04-10 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: CD-R, CD-RW

1998-04-10 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: Multi-tasking

1998-04-10 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:

EtherNet startup parameter

1998-04-10 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

Re: Motif

1998-04-10 Thread Carroll Kong
Motif is not freeware. Lesstif is.. but you need Motif to run XMCD. There is a statically compiled version somewhere... Carroll Kong On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Helmut Leinfellner wrote: Hi ! I was trying to install XMCD and I think what I'm lacking is ... Motif. Where do I get it ?

Re: sgml authoring --- SGML Web Page

1998-04-10 Thread adavis
The SGML Web Page is at http://www.sil.org/sgml/sgml.html where you can probably find out the answer to your questions, and more. Alan -- Alan E. Davis Marianas High School (Science Department) AAA196, Box 10001[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xterm ALT key

1998-04-10 Thread adavis
Please excuse my unfamiliarity with the nomenclature of the keyboard. I think this is an FAQ, but I haven't grokked the previous threads. I am posting to ask why xterm persists in crummy handling of ALT so that bash readline is a pain, or at least, not equivalent with bash on a terminal. This is

Re: olvwm locks up ...

1998-04-10 Thread Carey Evans
[I'm just catching up on debian-user after not reading it for a week, so apologies if I'm coming in a bit late.] Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : On a brand new install, Debian 2.0, using install disks from 29 Mar98. : Machine has an S3 Trio 64/V+ ... I'm using the SVGA xserver,

Software watchdog full process table

1998-04-10 Thread Chris
Hi, One of our network servers went down for reboot in the middle of last night, which was done by the software watchdog. The log message was as follows: daemon.log:Apr 10 03:15:44 seldon watchdog[102]: process table is full! daemon.log:Apr 10 03:15:44 seldon watchdog[102]: shutting down the

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
David Morris writes: 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 This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not

printing with kernel 2.1.94

1998-04-10 Thread James Dietrich
This one has me stumped: I have been experimenting with the latest kernels--versions 2.1.92 and now 2.1.94. However, I have had difficulties configuring my soundcard and parallel printer to work with the new kernels. After reading the documentation provided, I found that I needed to put these

Re: olvwm locks up ...

1998-04-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On 10 Apr 1998, Carey Evans wrote: : [I'm just catching up on debian-user after not reading it for a week, : so apologies if I'm coming in a bit late.] : : Nathan E Norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : : On a brand new install, Debian 2.0, using install disks from 29 Mar98. : : Machine has an

dselect problem (method locked)

1998-04-10 Thread R. Chris Ross
I was installing a bunch of packages while telnetting into a machine. The Telnet session died while the install was running and now I can't change the access method, Install or update the database. How do I remove the lock? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Multi-tasking

1998-04-10 Thread Damon Muller
G'day, 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

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-10 Thread Damon Muller
On this topic, sort of... I'm going to be writing a Masters thesis this year (ie. approx 30k words), and I'm planning on doing it in Linux (drag myself kicking and screaming into the Emacs documentation...). The possibilities I am looking as as to format are the ubiquitous LaTeX, or the newer

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Joey Hess
Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed it through the .deb... Is there anything I'm doing wrong? ii rvplayer5.0-1 Real Video Player (installer) What site are you

Edit Program

1998-04-10 Thread Pete Poff
Is there a edit program that I can use without X-WIN that will allow me to copy and paste? If so, where can i find it. Thanks, Pete Poff E-Mail Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Edit Program

1998-04-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Pete Poff wrote: Is there a edit program that I can use without X-WIN that will allow me to copy and paste? If so, where can i find it. Pine will (for some reason it appears to have been removed from hamm) If you install gpm, you can copy and paste any text, even

tetex in frozen--Problem?

1998-04-10 Thread Art Lemasters
I am using dselect ftp to try to download and install tetex packages. tetex-bin_0.9-3.deb says it needs tetex-base_0.9-3.deb in order to work, but tetex-base_0.4pl8-7.deb is all that is available. The download directory I am using is: /dists/frozen/main/binary-i386/ And yes, I am

Re: Edit Program

1998-04-10 Thread Nathan C. Burnett
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Pete Poff wrote: Is there a edit program that I can use without X-WIN that will allow me to copy and paste? If so, where can i find it. emacs, vi, jed, pico.basically all of them provided you know the magic keystrokes. Also, if you're running on the console and

Re: Edit Program

1998-04-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Pete Poff wrote: Is there a edit program that I can use without X-WIN that will allow me to copy and paste? If so, where can i find it. Pine will (for some reason it appears to have been removed from hamm) Oops, I

mh upgrade problem

1998-04-10 Thread Matt Thompson
Just upgraded, got this: Setting up mh (6.8.4-20) ... chmod: /usr/lib/mh/spopfi: No such file or directory dpkg: error processing mh (--install): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 ?? TIA for any help :) Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: SyQuest internal IDE 1GB disk?

1998-04-10 Thread vandeveb
Hey Rick, I'm a partner in a company that installs networks for small businesses, and have had some experiences w/ the syquest. As far as the internal ( both SCSI ide ) ones go, I would stay away from them. They are pretty flimsy, and we have had to return several of them. Instead of a

Re: X configuration problem

1998-04-10 Thread Alain Toussaint
I probably could write you a video mode that runs at low refresh rates with 320x200 and no double scan. You could even make me to do it ;) But serious: You don't want to run X Window with 320x200: The most programs will have a window much bigger than your screen. It would be possible using

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Joey Hess writes: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed it through the .deb... Is there anything I'm doing wrong? ii rvplayer5.0-1 Real Video Player

Re: Unable to open an initial console.

1998-04-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
Check that /dev/console is linked to appropriate /dev/tty? file. It's linked to tty0 in my system. Also remember correct permissions! --j -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Outgoing Message Error

1998-04-10 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:13:53AM +0700, Michael Acklin wrote: |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for this message |- Failed addresses follow: -|

Re: Is SPI moot?

1998-04-10 Thread Britton
I thought Bruce was continuing to head up SPI (which I though was dedicated to serving free software in general). Britton Kerin __ GNU GPL: The Source will be with you... always. On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, George Bonser wrote: With all that is now suddenly going on, I would suspect that SPI could

Re: printing with kernel 2.1.94

1998-04-10 Thread Aria Prima Novianto
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:38:47PM -0400, James Dietrich wrote: But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled the parallel port and PC-style parallel port and parallel printer all as modules). Edit

[OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-10 Thread LOPARIC Marko
Hello, I think this might interest... It arrived to me wihout the original sender id. - The DALnet #Linux has started a movement to get Linus Torvalds voted as Man of the Century. Their idea is to get a massive number of votes for Linus, which would at least get the attention of

Re: dselect problem (method locked)

1998-04-10 Thread Aria Prima Novianto
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 11:21:06PM -0400, R. Chris Ross wrote: I was installing a bunch of packages while telnetting into a machine. The Telnet session died while the install was running and now I can't change the access method, Install or update the database. How do I remove the

Re: Debian and ISDN: Getting there...

1998-04-10 Thread Jaakko Niemi
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

Re: Debian and ISDN: Getting there...

1998-04-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Atte Koivula [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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 some scripts like the ones at

RAID installation in hamm?

1998-04-10 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hello, It seems to me that RAID0 (with the mdutils package?) is not possible with the normal procedure with hamm. Any experencies or comments? Thanks in advance, Ulisses -

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread David Morris
Oh, I see. I, like Joey, have not found any embedded rpm files that would trigger the plugin. But it looks like you need to tell netscape you have an application that will play .ram and .rm and .ra files. Go to the edit-preferences-advanced-applications line of menus in netscape and find the

Re: printing with kernel 2.1.94

1998-04-10 Thread David Z. Maze
Aria Prima Novianto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: APN On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:38:47PM -0400, James Dietrich wrote: JD JD But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly JD configure the parallel port and/or printer modules. (I have enabled JD the parallel port and PC-style

Re: Problem with X and ViRGE card

1998-04-10 Thread Philippe Andersson
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

SOLVED! Re: Outgoing Message Error

1998-04-10 Thread Mike Acklin
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Anthony Towns wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:13:53AM +0700, Michael Acklin wrote: |- Message log follows: -| no valid recipients were found for this message |- Failed addresses follow:

?not enough colors: I need 10 colors + 4 planes.?

1998-04-10 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have a Matrox Millenium II with 4Mg and my XF86Config file it is like this (display section) Section Screen Driver SVGA Device Primary Card Monitor Primary Monitor SubSection Display Depth16 Modes1280x1024 1152x864 1024x768

Re: CD-R, CD-RW

1998-04-10 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 09:56:11AM +0100, Martin Oldfield wrote: Has anyone any experience of using a CD-R, or preferably a CD-RW drive with Linux ? I'm particularly interested in SCSI based drives. Linux (or generally: Unix) is a first class platform to write CD-R(W)s. The cdrecord

Re: Pioneer DRM-602X multi-CD player and AHA-2940AU with Debian 1.3.1?

1998-04-10 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Sat, Apr 04, 1998 at 02:16:33AM +0200, Cleto Pescia wrote: Hello, I'm trying to get a Multi-CD player Pioneer DRM-602X to work on a Debian 1.3.1 system (kernel 2.0.33 custom-compiled using make-kpkg) with an Adaptec 2940AU SCSI controller, but without luck... The various CD-ROM drives

WVDial

1998-04-10 Thread Ian Watkins
SS Has anyone gotten wvdial to work with static IP? ISDN? What's the problem with fixed IP on a dial-up? Is your ISDN treated like a modem? (I know nothing about ISDN) If so you could try editing the /etc/wvdial.conf file and put the correct init strings in there Ian W Karachi, Pakistan

Re: [OFF TOPIC] Linus Torvalds, the man of the century

1998-04-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 11:51:11AM +0200, LOPARIC Marko wrote: - The DALnet #Linux has started a movement to get Linus Torvalds voted as Man of the Century. Their idea is to get a massive number of votes for Linus, which would at least get the attention of Linux if nothign

Re: Motif

1998-04-10 Thread jdassen
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:00:05PM -0400, Carroll Kong wrote: Motif is not freeware. Lesstif is.. but you need Motif to run XMCD. No you don't. The xmcd package in frozen uses LessTif, not Motif. Ray -- Obsig: developing a new sig -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Where/how can I get Staroffice?

1998-04-10 Thread Tristan Day
I hear everyone saying how good staroffice is but don't know where I can get it. I've just got X running for 1st time!! Yipp! Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a deb file with netscape in. What do I do? Cheers, Tristan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Is SPI moot?

1998-04-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Britton wrote: I thought Bruce was continuing to head up SPI (which I though was dedicated to serving free software in general). Correct. SPI is still intact. Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps You may be right, I may

Re: Where/how can I get Staroffice?

1998-04-10 Thread Joost Kooij
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote: I hear everyone saying how good staroffice is but don't know where I can get it. I've just got X running for 1st time!! Yipp! http://www.stardivision.de http://sunsite.uio.no/pub/unix/linux/packages/staroffice4/final/ Also netscape won't install

How to recover???

1998-04-10 Thread T-SNAKE
OK, last night I was trying to set up X again (my vid card has an OAK 087 chipset, which I think isn't correctly supported...). After running the setup, I ran xdm to run X. The screen started to blink madly... not letting me do anything. This has happened before, but this time I wasn't able to

Re: Motif

1998-04-10 Thread Helmut Leinfellner
At 16:24 09.04.98 -0500, you wrote: 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/

enlarge my / directory

1998-04-10 Thread Benoit Joly
hi, i plan to enlarge my / directory but i dont know how, this is my info of partition: Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hdc3 460612 35222684598 81% / /dev/hda1 521840 339744 182096 65% /wmnt/c /dev/hdc1

Re: booting from dos

1998-04-10 Thread D. W. Wieboldt
On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 04:30:19PM +0100, Joop wrote: 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

-I- Re: lesstif not motif

1998-04-10 Thread Carroll Kong
Oh yes, sorry, I stand corrected. Carroll Kong On Fri, 10 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 08:00:05PM -0400, Carroll Kong wrote: Motif is not freeware. Lesstif is.. but you need Motif to run XMCD. No you don't. The xmcd package in frozen uses LessTif, not

Major Failure re-installing system!!!

1998-04-10 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I have re-installed my Debian Linux system many times over the past few months... A few times from hardware failures, once because of a broken package corrupting my filesystem... last night I had to do it again...I was recompiling my kernel (adding NE2000 suport...which I didn't have in the

Re: How to recover???

1998-04-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You should be able to recover using the rescue disk (aptly named, no?). Once you get booted up to where it would ask you to format the disk, exit to a single user shell (this option is at the very bottom) and then run fsck from there. T-SNAKE wrote: OK, last night I was trying to set up X

Re: enlarge my / directory

1998-04-10 Thread Stephen Carpenter
I don't think you can merger trhe 2 partitions it would be a real feat to do it and would involve changing the partition tabl, moving other partitions, and re-writing disk structures through ALL of the partitions (probably) and I know of no program that can do it... you coul dposibly however

Re: How to recover???

1998-04-10 Thread T-SNAKE
You should be able to recover using the rescue disk (aptly named, no?). Once you get booted up to where it would ask you to format the disk, exit to a single user shell (this option is at the very bottom) and then run fsck from there. Will this be the same type of shell as if I did an

Re: How to recover???

1998-04-10 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
T-SNAKE wrote: You should be able to recover using the rescue disk (aptly named, no?). Once you get booted up to where it would ask you to format the disk, exit to a single user shell (this option is at the very bottom) and then run fsck from there. Will this be the same type of shell

Problem with UTMP file upgrading to hamm

1998-04-10 Thread Matt Porter
I took my up to date bo distribution (always bleeding edge from ftp updates) and used the latest hamm distribution autoup.sh script and appropriate packages to update libc5-libc6. I then used dselect to suck down all the important packages and had them updated. When completed, I had a system

off-topic: sex a-la *NIX

1998-04-10 Thread Arunas Norvaisa
Received from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rafal Polonski) # unzip ; strip ; touch ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ; umount ; sleep :) Have a nice Easter... -- greetz... Arunas Norvaisa - little guy, The Masses Inc. PGP keys on keyservers: IDs: 0x4CE4774E (DSS/DH), 0xC90D7E21 PGP for idiots

LILO on second harddisk

1998-04-10 Thread Gabrie van Zanten
Hi, I have two harddisks. On /dev/hda2 is Win95, on /dev/hdb2 is Linux on /dev/hdb5 is linux swap. Now when using Lilo I get the error that it can't use the second harddisk. Is this because this one is not set active ? If I set it active, can I still boot win95 ? Gabrie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

conflict between xlib6 and xlib6g

1998-04-10 Thread Pierre Dupuis
Hello !!! :)) I'm expecting a problem, I need to install xlib6g library forms in order to make some app run (like squake) But xlib6 which is already installed is in conflict with xlib6g, and xlib6 is need by xbase and some others app like emacs... I would like to know if someone know

Re: Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion

1998-04-10 Thread Bruce Mardle
Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 19:44:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Ramon Olivella wrote: These are my technical specifications : Graphic chipset : 3Dfx Voodoo Rush I too have a card with the Voodoo Rush chipset By the way, IIRC the 3Dfx Glide

Need a little help

1998-04-10 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Hello :) I've been off this list and out of the Debian loop for a while, but I'm starting to get back into it now. I'm getting a system set up at the house and have just a few (hopefully quick) questions: 1) What are the best websites for info on how to do such-and-such with Debian Linux? 2)

Re: tetex in frozen--Problem?

1998-04-10 Thread Christoph Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Art Lemasters) writes: I am using dselect ftp to try to download and install tetex packages. tetex-bin_0.9-3.deb says it needs tetex-base_0.9-3.deb in order to work, but tetex-base_0.4pl8-7.deb is all that is available. The download directory I am using is:

Need a little help

1998-04-10 Thread Kendrick Myatt
Hello :) I've been off this list and out of the Debian loop for a while, but I'm starting to get back into it now. I'm getting a system set up at the house and have just a few (hopefully quick) questions: 1) What are the best websites for info on how to do such-and-such with Debian Linux? 2)

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Joey Hess writes: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed it through the .deb... Is there anything I'm doing wrong? ii

Re: conflict between xlib6 and xlib6g

1998-04-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Pierre Dupuis wrote: I need to install xlib6g library forms in order to make some app run (like squake) But xlib6 which is already installed is in conflict with xlib6g, and xlib6 is need by xbase and some others app like emacs... I would like to know if someone

Re: Need a little help

1998-04-10 Thread Shaleh
Hi, My name is Sean and I am the E and imlib maintainer. To get enlightenment go to www.enlightenment.org. There is a mailing list there and there is a #E on efnet. There will be a Debian package of E probably the first week of June. There is a major release of E at the end of May. The

Re: Graphic card installation : 3D Emotion

1998-04-10 Thread Ossama Othman
I too have a card with the Voodoo Rush chipset By the way, IIRC the 3Dfx Glide libraries have also been ported to Linux! You do recall correctly, but there are only Linux drivers for the Voodoo Graphics chips so I think you're both out of luck. Are you sure about that? I believe that I

Re: Where/how can I get Staroffice?

1998-04-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Tristan Day wrote: I hear everyone saying how good staroffice is but don't know where I can get it. I've just got X running for 1st time!! Yipp! There are two versions. StarOffice 3.1 is at ftp.gwdg.de. You need to get three files, StarOffice31-common.tar.gz,

Re: printing with kernel 2.1.94

1998-04-10 Thread James Dietrich
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 07:14:16AM -0400, David Z. Maze wrote: Aria Prima Novianto [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: APN On Thu, Apr 09, 1998 at 10:38:47PM -0400, James Dietrich wrote: JD JD But I still haven't figured out what needs to be done to properly JD configure the parallel port and/or

Re: Where/how can I get Staroffice?

1998-04-10 Thread Alain Toussaint
Also netscape won't install because it says it needs a .tar.gz file not a deb file with netscape in. What do I do? Cheers, Tristan you download netscape (3.01 for a debian 1.3.1 installation) from the netscape site,it come in a .tar.gz file,you put it in the /tmp directory and then,you

Pnp setup

1998-04-10 Thread Marc van der Vossen
Hi, I'm going to set up my AWE 32 card which is Plug and Pray. this is the only PnP card in my computer, does anyone have a config file where I can just put my own setting in and it works ? Any directions installing SB -drivers ? Any input is appreciated. Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To

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

1998-04-10 Thread Lazar Fleysher
On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Stephen A. Witt wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I would like to network the two so that the new Win95 machine uses the Linux box as a gateway to the internet and as a server. I will probably try to use PLIP as the protocol

Help with a PS/2 mouse and X11

1998-04-10 Thread Cam Vetter
I installed off of the 1.3.1 CD's, and haven't been able to get my mouse to work with anything yet. (What program's could I test with besides X11?) The mouse is a PS/2 style Logitech Mouseman 3 button mouse. I went into XF86Config and tried the following settings: mouse protocol: mouseman (also

Re: Help with a PS/2 mouse and X11

1998-04-10 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I installed off of the 1.3.1 CD's, and haven't been able to get my mouse to work with anything yet. (What program's could I test with besides X11?) The mouse is a PS/2 style Logitech Mouseman 3 button mouse. I went into XF86Config and tried the following settings: mouse protocol:

Re: Major Failure re-installing system!!!

1998-04-10 Thread John Maheu
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I have re-installed my Debian Linux system many times over the past few months... A few times from hardware failures, once because of a broken package corrupting my filesystem... last night I had to do it again...I was recompiling my kernel

qt compile problem after upgrade to libc6

1998-04-10 Thread Michael \[badpixel / bad sector\]
hi! i have alot of problems compiling things, after i have upgraded to libc6 (from debian 1.3.1) the programs, that i can't compile now compiled before, without problems. gcc: installation problem, cannot exec c1plus': No such file or directory i can't compile qt 1.31 ... locate cc1plus

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Bob Nielsen writes: I'd suppose that the simple fact that you click on a .ram file, Netscape was supposed to call rvplayer, much the same way that with a .pdf it calls Acrobat, and with .avi it calls xanim... Am I missing something? Try clicking on the file

Re: Major Failure re-installing system!!!

1998-04-10 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 10 Apr, John Maheu wrote: There is a good signal 11 reference on the web somewhere - unfortunatly I can't remember the address. http://www.bitwizard.nl/sig11/ -- Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Bob Nielsen writes: I'd suppose that the simple fact that you click on a .ram file, Netscape was supposed to call rvplayer, much the same way that with a .pdf it calls Acrobat, and with .avi it calls xanim... Am I missing

Re: problems using xmaple in a remote xterminal

1998-04-10 Thread Marco Anglesio
(maple is a computer algebra system). If I start xmaple (the graphical interface) locally, everything works fine. However, if I try to use a remote xterminal (using rlogin or telnet) I get a segmentation fault. Have you tried using rexec? % rexec -l username -p password hostname

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Bob Nielsen writes: On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Bob Nielsen writes: I did and all the binary garbage appeared in the netscape screen. No real player... It sounds like rvplayer didn't get installed as a plugin for you. Should I report this as a bug to debian

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-10 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Jason == Jason Costomiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jason Indeed. However, you don't need to learn the finger-breaking Jason keystrokes emacs requires (sorry guys, what was that, Jason meta+alt+left shift_F9 for that function? g )... You are just showing how dated your knowledge of

Re: qt compile problem after upgrade to libc6

1998-04-10 Thread Scott Ellis
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Michael [badpixel / bad sector] wrote: hi! i have alot of problems compiling things, after i have upgraded to libc6 (from debian 1.3.1) the programs, that i can't compile now compiled before, without problems. gcc: installation problem, cannot exec c1plus': No

IPX problem

1998-04-10 Thread BRIAN SCHRAMM
I know that this might not be the proper group to ask but I cannot find any that I can ask in so here it goes. I have loaded the ncp package for Novell login capability. No matter what I do to configure it I get a steady display of the following error message: ipx:

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-10 Thread King Lee
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Damon Muller wrote: On this topic, sort of... I'm going to be writing a Masters thesis this year (ie. approx 30k words), and I'm planning on doing it in Linux (drag myself kicking and screaming into the Emacs documentation...). The possibilities I am looking as as

new

1998-04-10 Thread Mike
Hope I got the right e-mail address, Just heard about Linux and was wanting to try it out but do not know where to get it. Thanks, Mike

Re: Threading list subjects?

1998-04-10 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 01:48:48PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: : Hi, : Jason == Jason Costomiris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: : : Jason Indeed. However, you don't need to learn the finger-breaking : Jason keystrokes emacs requires (sorry guys, what was that, : Jason meta+alt+left shift_F9 for

Re: new

1998-04-10 Thread DAVID B. TEAGUE
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike wrote: Hope I got the right e-mail address, Just heard about Linux and was wanting to try it out but do not know where to get it. Thanks, Mike Mike, please set your Netscape mailer to send only text. Many of these guys will just grab the delete key if you

Re: new

1998-04-10 Thread Adam Klein
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 04:19:14PM -0500, DAVID B. TEAGUE wrote: On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Mike wrote: Hope I got the right e-mail address, Just heard about Linux and was wanting to try it out but do not know where to get it. Thanks, Mike Mike, please set your Netscape mailer

Re: sgml authoring

1998-04-10 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 02:15:34PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: On this topic, sort of... I'm going to be writing a Masters thesis this year (ie. approx 30k words), and I'm planning on doing it in Linux (drag myself kicking and screaming into the Emacs documentation...). The possibilities I

Re: xwin and monitor

1998-04-10 Thread John Wingfield
I'm afraid I need some more information. If the X Server actually starts, then the problem is likely to be your monitor configuration, as you suggest. If the X Server does not start, then it is more likely to be a conflict with your system. Do you have the appropriate versions of the required

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Fabien Ninoles
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 10:13:24AM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Joey Hess writes: Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: This turned my attention to the fact that RealPlayer is not being called as a Netscape plug-in, even though I installed

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Bob Nielsen writes: On Fri, 10 Apr 1998, Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella wrote: Bob Nielsen writes: I did and all the binary garbage appeared in the netscape screen. No real player... It sounds like rvplayer didn't get installed as a

Xdvi doesn't scale!

1998-04-10 Thread Matthew Lee
Hi, the size of xdvi doesn't scale. I can call it up with -geometry axb but that only controls the window size. The layout of the controls are too large and I can't get the lower part of the controls on my 800x600 resolution screen without running a virtual desktop. Any suggestions? Thanks in

Re: Linux On NPR

1998-04-10 Thread Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella
Bob Nielsen writes: It sounds like rvplayer didn't get installed as a plugin for you. Should I report this as a bug to debian developers? One thought--did you install netscape with the debian installer? Yes. If not, the files may not go where they will be expected. All the other

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