I'm having trouble configuring the keyboard under x.
It used to work ok once, i don't know what i changed
but the delete and backspace keys don't work. The backspace
sends ~ signs (or at list thats how they apear) and delete sends
.
they both beep when i press them. when i use ^d and ^h it works fi
>Could you help me with the following:
>
>1. how can I, using Linux and X11 read e-mail from other people who send it
>to me via my ISP (uses POP)
Try Pine, works for me.
>2. What is a good soundcard which is < $40-$50 that works well in Linux and
>Win95?
No Idea.
>3. Does Netscape 4 install co
>> "MP" == Mark Panzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
MP> Could you help me with the following:
MP> 1. how can I, using Linux and X11 read e-mail from other people who send it
MP> to me via my ISP (uses POP)
fetchmail can poll the mails from your provider. Check man fetchmail for
more info. The sec
>> "BR" == Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
BR> After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing
BR> at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twice. Used to be, the
BR> attached main-menu-pre.hook file did the expected thing. Now, the menus
BR> I custo
I'm sure this is a FAQ, but I seem to have lost my start-up messages
since upgrading to hamm. Everything used to go into /var/log/*, and
my /etc/syslog.conf hasn't changed, but I don't seem to have much
in /var/log any more.
Anyone know where it goes now, or what's changed, or how to scroll
the co
That seems to do the trick.
Thanks to all.
Dave
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From: Jens Ritter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 1998 3:04 PM
To: David Miner
Subject: RE: Can't get X to Run, Please help!
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, David Miner wrote:
> I do not see where I can choose "
I down lowded the binary for the xfce toolbar.
I ran the xfce_setup, and then when i tried to run
xfce it segfaulted (no other error message).
I'm using Hamm (dip freeze or whatever)
If anyone has sugestions
_
DO YOU YAHOO!?
Get your free @y
Ray,
Thanks for the information! I added a line in the Makefile for 'libs
= -lcrypt' and everything compiled without error. A rather simple solution
for a problem that was driving a simpleton (me) up the wall ;)
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Package: fvwm2
Version: 2.0.46-BETA-3
Severity: normal
After a recent upgrade of fvwm2, the window manager seems to be processing
at least some of my $HOME/.fvwm2/*.hook files twice. Used to be, the
attached main-menu-pre.hook file did the expected thing. Now, the menus
I custom-made get doubled
The netscape is an installer, yes. What you do is download the 4.05
tar.gz from Netscape and put it in /tmp (owned by root). Then you
install the installer package and it will set up Netscape. I use
Netscape for my e-mail and have no problems with it. I get about
400-600 e-mails a day. As to a
Could you help me with the following:
1. how can I, using Linux and X11 read e-mail from other people who send it
to me via my ISP (uses POP)
2. What is a good soundcard which is < $40-$50 that works well in Linux and
Win95?
3. Does Netscape 4 install correctly under Hamm? I would like to try to
Yes, I can resolve outside names (pinging and "netscaping"). I'm not
familiar with a smarthost. Does that have to do with SMTP or sendmail?
Isn't there some
other sort of SMTP services I need to be running? (read transcript
below)
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On Fri, June 19 1998, Wiria A Kusuma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
|Hi all.., its me again asking for your help, I had my isp running, I use
|debian linux as authentication server, my problem is that I do not know how to
|limit one login session per user, I had tried to write a script to do that job
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 02:39:46PM -0500, Michael Merten wrote:
> Now, after upgrading to hamm (read that: reinitializing the hd and
> installing hamm from scratch), attempts to compile Circlemud fail with
> errors about undefined references to crypt function.
crypt() isn't in libc, but is i
Greetings, all!
A few years ago I downloaded a package called Circlemud from the net and
(after much playing around with signal handling routines) got it up and
running on a SCO system.
A bit more recently, (couple of weeks ago) I again downloaded Circlemud
and
successfully compi
Don Berkich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Does anyone know of any OCR software available for Linux? Preferably
> >something that will plug into gimp with SANE and xscanimage - but anything
> >will
> >do, console mode or X - I'm dying never to have to reboot to Windoze again!
> >:).
>
Let me a
Sounds like your symbolic link for X isn't pointing to a valid server. Try
this:
Go to the /ur/X11R6/bin directory
type: ln -s /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 X
That will set your symbolic link for X to point to the VGA16 server. Hope this
helps.
--thanks to Steve Mayer for helping me solve this p
David Miner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I recently installed DEBIAN Linux and downloaded some packages.
> My problem is when I try to start X it wont start and I get this message
> back.
>
> Fatal server error:
> No valid modes found.
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
> g
I recently installed DEBIAN Linux and downloaded some packages.
My problem is when I try to start X it wont start and I get this message
back.
Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable
Yes, I can resolve outside names (pinging and "netscaping"). I'm
not familiar with a smarthost. Does that have to do with SMTP or
sendmail? Isn't there some other sort of SMTP services I need to
be running?
Brian Morgan
can you resolve names outside greenville.edu (try pinging one or
netsca
I've been trying to add a freebsd to a spare partition, but I'm running into a
bit of oddness.
I have an 8.4gb maxtor. I have an initial partition of something like 100Mb
for /boot, so that it could be boot from. After this partition, I am
attempting to put a freebsd. Which is where it gets
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998 14:33:36 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Definitly. And lucky for us...it will be impossible for Uncle Bill to force
>Linux users to install IE. Oh and another great "Feature" that comes with IE
>ActiveX.
The Mac version doesn't have AX, something tells me a Linux versio
On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 10:12:02AM -0700, George Bonser wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Shaleh wrote:
>
> > Well. I like that we are mentioned (-: Looks like IE for Linux is
> > coming our way.
> >
>
> I hope they are not wasting their time with a program like IE that most
> will never use, I
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, David Miner wrote:
> I recently installed DEBIAN Linux and downloaded some packages.
> My problem is when I try to start X it wont start and I get this message
> back.
>
> Fatal server error:
> No valid modes found.
> _X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
>
Hi all.., its me again asking for your help, I had my isp running, I use
debian linux as authentication server, my problem is that I do not know how to
limit one login session per user, I had tried to write a script to do that job
with expect, but I do not know how to do it correctly, can you plea
I recently installed DEBIAN Linux and downloaded some packages.
My problem is when I try to start X it wont start and I get this message
back.
Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unable
On 18-Jun-98 Autumn wrote:
> Eureka!
Well done! It looked pretty mysterious in the first instance.
> Eric: You were correct. To my chagrin, there was in fact an NT administrator
> loose in the building, gnawing at the wires, and telling me lies. He told
> me, for example, that the three machine
> "Mark" == Mark H Mabry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Thu, 18 Jun 1998 12:44:29 -0400
> "AR" == Richardson,Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:52:00 -0400
Me> Okay, now we are getting to the meat of the problem. As you
Me
> "Rift" == Rift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rift> My father is a beta tester for Microsoft products. On
Rift> his mailing list recently he recieved yet another call for
Rift> testers. This one, however seemed out of place to him, so he
Rift> called me about it. "Micro
Any of your good C books show how bits and bitmasks work. That example
is a bad one and the driver is rather ugly if it makes people work in
bits.
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>
> My father is a beta tester for Microsoft products. On his mailing
> list recently he recieved yet another call for testers. This one, however
> seemed out of place to him, so he called me about it.
>
> "Microsoft is seeking testers registered in our Beta Test pr
Micha Kersloot wrote:
>
> Michael Roark wrote:
> >
> > /lib/modules/2.0.30/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol . . .
> > (there are several lines of this)
>
> Looks like you've got diverent versions of the Kernel and the pcmcia
> modules
That would tie in with my experiences - you need to redo
> "AR" == Richardson,Anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote the following on Wed, 17 Jun 1998 13:52:00 -0400
AR> 1024 is the maximum number of cylinders that may be stored in a
AR> partition table entry (10 bits). 1024 is also the maximum
AR> cylinder that can addressed using the stand
John C. Ellingboe wrote:
> Hello to the list,
>
> Hopefully someone on the list will be able to identify a couple of
> network cards I have and recomend what drivers to use for them.
>
> 1. Novell Inc. ISA card (designed by Novel manufactured by Microdyne)
> major chip is DP83905AVQB A
> I can now send and receive mail on my Debian box, but only to addresses
> within our local domain (greenville.edu). It doesn't seem to be sending
> stuff off-site. Is there a sendmail or SMTP type package that I need to
> install to get this going right?
can you resolve names outside greenvill
"Mark H. Mabry" wrote:
> Even though my BIOS is using LBA, and the kernel sees all
> 9.6 GB of my disk, the fdisk and cfdisk seem to use the C/H/S
> settings.
I could be wrong about this; I'm no expert.
I have a PD-CD drive, and early Linux drivers would detect and use it (I
could m
I can now send and receive mail on my Debian box, but only to addresses
within our local domain (greenville.edu). It doesn't seem to be sending
stuff off-site. Is there a sendmail or SMTP type package that I need to
install to get this going right?
Brian
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I recently installed DEBIAN Linux and downloaded some packages. My problem
is when I try to start X it wont start and I get this message back.
Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.
I'm running the "SVGA" server and ran XF86Setup. I also had to edit
/etc/X11/Xserver because it originally
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Daniel Martin at cush wrote:
[ snip ]
: something to hold the mail - if the sites sending the mail can't get
: through to your mail server, they'll just hold it until they can get
: through. Typically, what will happen is that people trying to send
: mail to your site will o
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, David Miner wrote:
> I recently installed DEBIAN Linux and downloaded some packages. My problem
> is when I try to start X it wont start and I get this message back.
>
> Fatal server error:
> No valid modes found.
What server are you using (vga16, svga etc.)? Did you run XF
I recently installed DEBIAN Linux and downloaded some packages. My problem
is when I try to start X it wont start and I get this message back.
Fatal server error:
No valid modes found.
_X11TransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 111
giving up.
xinit: Connection refused (errno 111): unabl
My father is a beta tester for Microsoft products. On his mailing list
recently he recieved yet another call for testers. This one, however seemed out
of place to him, so he called me about it.
"Microsoft is seeking testers registered in our Beta Test program who
are experience
Carlos Carvalho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I need to shutdown our main mail server for hardware changes, and I'd
> like that another machine in our department receives the mail and hold
> it until the main server is up again, and then sends the stored mail
> to the server. How can this be done?
[I tried to send a message like this last night but accidently
screwed up...so I apologize if the old version shoots out of my home
mail system at some point to this list]
Ok...I have been digging around here at work, and we seem to have a problem.
All of us techs ocasionally need to fix Terminal
I posted a message the other day on a problem pinging the DNS for my ISP. The
problem ended up being inaccurate documentation from my ISP on the nameserver
addresses - can you believe it?! (Actually you probably can). When I actually
checked the DNS entries on my windows machine at work they d
>Does anyone know of any OCR software available for Linux? Preferably
>something that will plug into gimp with SANE and xscanimage - but anything will
>do, console mode or X - I'm dying never to have to reboot to Windoze again! :).
Me too!
There is an old project, xocr (located at sunsite unde
Eureka!
The problem is solved through the combined application of Drake's, Ted's and
Eric's solutions.
Eric: You were correct. To my chagrin, there was in fact an NT administrator
loose in the building, gnawing at the wires, and telling me lies. He told me,
for example, that the three machines
> Mark H. Mabry wrote:
> I'm having a problem partitioning my 9.6 GB harddrive on my Dell P-II
> 400. This is an EIDE drive. When I use cfdisk, it sees only 8 GB.
> I believe that this is due to a limit in cfdisk which sets the max
> number of sectors to 1024. Mine should have 1227 (approx).
>
Hi all,
I need some tutoring on bit and bitmasks. I am playing around with
the new joystick kernel driver(ver. 1.2.3) and it requires some
kernel options to specify the joystick configuration. This is what
part of the info file says:
---Documentation/joystick.txt
For other joystick types (mo
I need to shutdown our main mail server for hardware changes, and I'd
like that another machine in our department receives the mail and hold
it until the main server is up again, and then sends the stored mail
to the server. How can this be done? The temporary holder can be our
gateway/dns, for exa
j:
>
> The autoup.sh is ment to be used in bo->hamm upgrade, AFAIK.
> Normal updates are easy, just point dselect/apt to a mirror, get
> updates and let it install. Just fire up and tap enter a few times.
It is usually a good idea to upgrade dpkg first with dpkg, in case there
have been enhanc
>> Does anyone have any idea how long until Mesa3.0 libraries will be
>> debianized?
>> (Appararently it is req'd by the latest version of Blender. :(. ).
When they are out of beta, I guess. It's pretty easy to compile them
yourself though, just put them in /usr/local/lib and put a
LD_LI
>> On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:15:07AM -0700, Nick Moffitt wrote:
>> > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>> >
>> > > Yes, but *there is no need for a re-install*! Debian has a great and
>> > > superior upgrading mechanism, and your system will update cleanly through
>> > > every version,
Some one was asking about getting a TV Card to work on their Debian System,
last week, I think. Anyway ran accross this from Freshmeat and thought I would
share it with the list and maybe the person asking about getting the TV to
work
on Debian
=
Hi,
is the alpha architecture release of debian already stable enough for a
production machine?
Bye,
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On Thu, Jun 18, 1998 at 12:29:15AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 03:31:07PM +, Jay Barbee wrote:
> >
> > I did not want it installed, I prefer the sym-links myself aswell. All
> > seems
> > normal now that it is removed. I guess I will know when it is time to
>
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Hi Kent!
On Thu, 18 Jun 1998, Kent wrote:
> tried to install the TCL and for some reason computer locked up
> now system cannot open /etc/ld.so.cache
>
> done e2fsch /dev/hda1 but still get error message.
>
> What do I do to fix this problem
> Why did it
Hi All,
I am using Squid as my web cache and I have been playing reound with the
cachemgr script that come with Squid, but I can't seem to get it to work
properly, for some of the functions that can be selected when using this cgi
script it seems to want a password but everyone I try seems to be i
I'm trying to install linux on a Digital PC 5000 from a Debian 1.3.1 CD,
but
all it does is to start loadlin and then it hang
Have anyone experienced the same problem ?
Nils Inge Lilleheie
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On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 03:31:07PM +, Jay Barbee wrote:
>
> I did not want it installed, I prefer the sym-links myself aswell. All seems
> normal now that it is removed. I guess I will know when it is time to reboot
> (hopefully in another 93 days ).
Somewhat unrelated, but worth noting i
>
> I've e Debian 2.0 frozen host with X windows and fvwm95.
> Now when I run a program and some windows are opened often I'm
> obtainig:
> xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable
> or when I attempting to run xterm:
> bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
> and so
I've e Debian 2.0 frozen host with X windows and fvwm95.
Now when I run a program and some windows are opened often I'm
obtainig:
xterm: Error 29, errno 11: Resource temporarily unavailable
or when I attempting to run xterm:
bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable
and so on...
when the pr
Hello to the list,
Hopefully someone on the list will be able to identify a couple of
network cards I have and recomend what drivers to use for them.
1. Novell Inc. ISA card (designed by Novel manufactured by Microdyne)
major chip is DP83905AVQB AT/LANTIC ( 3COM 905 )
tried to install the TCL and for some reason computer locked up
now system cannot open /etc/ld.so.cache
done e2fsch /dev/hda1 but still get error message.
What do I do to fix this problem
Why did it happen???
Need a soulution fast, I am afraid this will make it die
PANIC
thanks
Ken
On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 11:15:01PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> dpk wrote:
> > I,... what are people switching to? Any recommendations for a fast,
> > slick, and easily configurable wm?
>
> WindowMaker. As a bonus, it's similar to afterstep in look & feel.
>
> To be fair, the config file for wmake
Michael Roark wrote:
>
> /lib/modules/2.0.30/pcmcia/3c589_cs.o: unresolved symbol . . .
> (there are several lines of this)
Looks like you've got diverent versions of the Kernel and the pcmcia
modules
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On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 02:19:58PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 16 Jun, Robert Wilderspin wrote:
> > However, I'm not entirely sure if you can run programs directly from
> > those drives
> Yes, you can run programs from the shares.
This is particularily useful for setup programs that instal
* "Chris R. Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I have a seperate machine where I've compiled the lastest GNU binutils and
| I would like to compile as86 as well, but I've been unable to figure out
| where the source comes from.. can anyone tell me?
See /usr/doc/bin86/copyright.
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can you give me or point me to 1.1 to 1.2 to 1.3, or 1.1 to 1.3,
> upgrade instructions? Thanks.
imo, you'd be better off waiting for hamm (2.0) to be released - or
order a pre-release hamm CD (there are several people who sell them...i
think netgod
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998 23:30:26 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
>Yes, but it is not the time to install hamm yet for an end user. I don't
>think it is appropriate for Debian to switch over to Microsoft release
>schedule (another extreme statement I'm happy to weak).
Rats, I'm not an end user? *S
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Autumn wrote:
> > Sorry I didn't make that clear. It is the latter. The first machine goes,
> > and
> > six hours later the next machine goes, and ten minutes later, the last one
> > goes.
> > The interval between machines stays the same to within a minute.
>
> Whoops!
>
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, W Paul Mills wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jun 1998, Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> >
> > I am trying to use top on an old wyse terminal, but it will not display
> > the processes below the column header. Also, when quitting, the prompt
> > appears in the middle of the system info at the
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote:
> >
> > Shaleh writes:
> > >
[snip]
>
> I think it appeared some time ago on http://www.slashdot.org/. The
> motto of this site is: `News for nerds. Stuff that matters.'
>
> One word of warning here: it's addictive.
Thats two words. :) Or is it
On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > Yes, but *there is no need for a re-install*! Debian has a great and
> > superior upgrading mechanism, and your system will update cleanly
> > through every version, even major version changes.
>
> "The success varied" and "that mostly all users can upgra
Patrick O'Brien wrote:
>
> I thought I loaded all the necessary libs to run Enlightenment,
> but when I try to run it I get a warning message that says it
> can't load libIm1.so.1.
>
> Any ideas as to which package will generate libIm1.so.1?
>
> Thanks,
> Pat
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I thought I loaded all the necessary libs to run Enlightenment,
but when I try to run it I get a warning message that says it
can't load libIm1.so.1.
Any ideas as to which package will generate libIm1.so.1?
Thanks,
Pat
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On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Chris wrote:
> Bye for now
>
> Chris
>
>
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I noticed that I have both as (GNU assembler provided by binutils) and as86
(provided by bin86).
What is the difference between these assemblers?
I have a seperate machine where I've compiled the lastest GNU binutils and
I would like to compile as86 as well, but I've been unable to figure out
whe
On 17 Jun 98 05:10:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Oh yeah? On my hamm->bo DOWNGRADE, I had to UPLOAD more than that.
Goddamn! You win. :-)
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> Does anyone know of any OCR software available for Linux? Preferably
> something that will plug into gimp with SANE and xscanimage - but anything
> will
> do, console mode or X - I'm dying never to have to reboot to Windoze again!
> :).
http://members.aa.net
The Debian Hamm tree contains binaries for i386, alpha, m68k, sparc
and powerpc; but only install disks for the first four of these
architectures.
How does one obtain install disks or a pointer to an install procedure
for Debian on PowerPC/PowerMac?
Thanks
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On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 11:11:11AM -0700, Andrew Leonard wrote:
> >
> > I think it appeared some time ago on http://www.slashdot.org/. The
> > motto of this site is: `News for nerds. Stuff that matters.'
> >
> > One word of warning here: it's addictive.
>
> No kidding. I'm a reporter/editor fo
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Jim Lynch wrote:
> I'm getting the following error message upon boot:
> Unable to determine Adaptec IRQ level
>
> I had this card installed in a VLB system a while ago and replaced it
> with a pci scsi adapter when I upgraded. I'm now putting a second
> machine together and
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 12:08:49PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Can you give me or point me to 1.1 to 1.2 to 1.3, or 1.1 to 1.3, upgrade
> instructions? Thanks.
I don't think there were a lot of instructions for those upgrades
at the time, unlike the 1.3 -> 2.0 upgrade.
There is a file READM
There is someone who know how to create a basic OS, if that the case
please mail me your mail address.
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