Re: nvidia riva 128 - xf86config

1998-06-25 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I`m useing a Diamond Viper V330 (Nvidia Riva 128) card but this card isn`t listed... Try the SVGA driver. I believe support for the Riva 128 is in it. -Ossama -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

memory leak

1998-06-25 Thread tko
Something that I'm running is leaking memory like crazy. How do I find this memory leak and more importantly, how does one fix it? I have 128Meg of memory on the system and when I first boot up, the system has 99Meg free. After running for a day or two, I'm dipping into the swap space and the

Re: Once burned...

1998-06-25 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I hope this is the right list for utterly and incredibly new Linux newbies. I had another distribution my machine but it was too old to recognize most of my hardware to I gave it away. I'm waiting now for Debian 2 to start anew but I wanted to be sure

Re: Once burned...

1998-06-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
As far as the 820 is concerned, the following is from the Ghostscript printer compatibility page (www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/printer.html): The HP DeskJet 720C, 722C, 820C and 1000C are PPA printers. They will not work with the PCL drivers above. You are expected to use PPA printers with a

Re: squake not working

1998-06-25 Thread Shaleh
This is a problem w/ your svgalib (the libc5 version). Apparently the package is not running ldconfig like it is supposed to. As root type 'ldconfig'. This reloads your list of shared libraries. After this squake should work. If not, please run 'ldd squake.real' in the directory where

Multiple ethernet cards

1998-06-25 Thread Yosef B
Using Hamm - 2.0.33 monolithic kernel with ne compiled in. Trying to get two ne2000 cards to work. Doesn't seen to operate like 1.3. Putting the hardware parameters in lilo.conf doesn't seem to have any effect. Also, the mini-howto for multiple ethernets seems to have dissapeared off the net.

Re: squake not working

1998-06-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Unfortunately, SVGA does not stand for standard VGA. SVGAlib, which is what squake runs under, doesn't have support for NeoMagic because NeoMagic won't give out technical info about their cards freely. There are commercial X Servers for NeoMagic boards so maybe you could use xquake with one of

Newbie stymied by installation ... twice! (1.3 _and_ 2.0)

1998-06-25 Thread Tim Topper
I'd really like to use Debian, but the installation's getting the better of me. I've made two failed attempts. I'll describe them both, because I'll pursue whichever one is most promising. 1. Installed Debian 1.3, but couldn't get network going. First I had trouble installing the driver because

RE: older debian release?

1998-06-25 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, hi, i've got what may seem a strange request.. i'm looking for an older release of debian. i have a laptop w/ only 2MB RAM and i've been told that one of the older releases of debian will run under 2MB. Bo can run in 2 MB RAM. You'll have to use the lmemboot floppy and to compile a

mail woes after reinstall

1998-06-25 Thread Rick Hawkins
ARGH!!! Yesterday mornign, I let unstable update itself. Once more, the mail was clobhered. Since I had an hour or two, and there were odd things about the disk, i decided it woudl be a good time to wipe the disk. Eventually, I figured out that most of my troubles comes from my maxtor 8.4

Weird diald behavior

1998-06-25 Thread Randy Edwards
Recently I decided to revamp my ppp and diald setup and adopt the script strategy that the new version of ppp uses rather than my old kludge. Well, my experience proves the old saying, if it ain't broke... ;-) Here's the problem I'm having. If I connect to my ISP using the ppp package's script

Problem with F90 compiler after upgrade to libc6

1998-06-25 Thread Chris Auld
Hi, Yesterday I used the autoup.sh script to upgrade libc5 - libc6. My NAG Fortran 90 compiler now crashes out with the following error: f90 -w-c global.f -o global.o In file included from global.f:1: /usr/local/lib/f90/f90.h:48: math.h: No such file or directory

Linux system Instalation - CRC Error

1998-06-25 Thread Romilson Cruz de Carvalho
Gentlemen, I got the following files of instalation of Linux Debian: Root.Bin Resc1440.Bin Drv1440.Bin Base-1.Bin Base-2.Bin Base-3.Bin Base-4.Bin Base-5.Bin Base1_3.Tgz The RAWRITE2.EXE was used to make the instalation disks. When I put the RESCUE DISK in the drive and reboot my computer,

Re: How do I setup /dev/cdrom ?

1998-06-25 Thread Randy Edwards
First, go into /dev and do a ls -l cdrom and see where the symbolic link is pointing to. If your CD-ROM is the slave off from the primary controller, then it will be known as /dev/hdb. If the symbolic link is missing, or pointing to some other device than what your CD-ROM is on, then simple

Re: Linux system Instalation - CRC Error

1998-06-25 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Sounds like you there may be a media defect on the floppy you used for the rescue disk. Use another floppy. This is pretty common. Here is what I do do make a Debian boot floppy set. It is kinda time consuming, but it has pretty much eliminated this kind of problem for me. DOS (Win95,

Re: memory leak

1998-06-25 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
In a message [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Something that I'm running is leaking memory like crazy. How do I | find this memory leak and more importantly, how does one fix it? I | have 128Meg of memory on the system and when I first boot up, the | system has 99Meg free. After running for a day or

Re: Weird diald behavior

1998-06-25 Thread lantz moore
Randy == Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have my connect parameter of diald.options pointing to /usr/bin/pon ncia and the disconnect parm pointing at /usr/bin/poff. I have diald.option's ip-up parameter pointing to /etc/ppp/ip-up and ip-down pointing to /etc/ppp/ip-down. i ran

more on the mail problem

1998-06-25 Thread Rick Hawkins
Upon more fiddling, I find that sendmail is listening on port 25, and mailq informs me that there have been attempts at communication: eyry:/home/hawk# mailq Mail Queue (8 requests) --Q-ID-- --Size-- -Q-Time- Sender/Recipient QAA015758 Thu

Re: program to switch consoles?

1998-06-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Paul Miller wrote: Perfect! That is exactly what I'm looking for. Thanks -Paul No Worries :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject.

fvwm2/xterm/bash/(child process) problem

1998-06-25 Thread Colin Telmer
Say I run a process in the background from an xterm. For example, emacs Then, if I kill the xterm by clicking on the X in the right, top corner, it ALSO kills emacs. On the other hand, if I kill the xterm by typing `exit' at the command line, the emacs job continues. I want to have the

Solved JDK/Display error

1998-06-25 Thread Dennis Dixon
Thanks to Paul Reavis and others for your help. I was getting the following error message: * 'appletviewer /usr/local/jdk1.1.5/demo/awt-1.1/lightweight/OpenlookButtons/example.html' My error message was: java.lang.InternalError: Can't connect to X11 window server using ':0' as the

Running FreeBuilder.jar

1998-06-25 Thread Dennis Dixon
I have already posted the following e-mail on the FreeBuilder and the Java-Linux mailing lists. I have reposted it here just in case someone on this list might know the answer. ** I'm a relatively new Debian Linux user (version 1.3) and have recently succesfully installed jdk1.1.5. I

zmore Latex

1998-06-25 Thread Dennis Dixon
I am still having trouble with basic text commands. Doesn't seem like it should be that hard. The following command, for instance: zmore Xserver.1x.gz gives me text with control characters in it. I'm fairly sure I'm not using the right procedure to view these files. Also, someone

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