RE: Linux en portatiles

1998-09-01 Thread Burning Ice
Hola meu: Pues vete aflojando el bolsillo, pues eso ya es posible ;-D. Pasate por www.linuxjournal.com , pues en el numero de junio de este año trae el articulo: Linux and the PalmPilot This article contains all the information you need to run Linux with the

Impresora laser...

1998-09-01 Thread Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez
Alguien podria decirme como configurar una impresora laser 4L con todos los filtros para dvi,ps, etc Espero que puedan ayudarme ya que me urge poder imprimir.

Re: Impresora laser...

1998-09-01 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez dijo: Alguien podria decirme como configurar una impresora laser 4L con todos los filtros para dvi,ps, etc Ya probaste magicfilter -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Gracias../dev/psaux.. funciona pero poco y mal

1998-09-01 Thread Manuel Paz Flores
Te agradecería que me lo enviases a mí tambien, por favor. El problema que tengo yo es que al hacer xstart me sale la pantalla en negro. Si me lo envias le echo un ojo. Muchas gracias Manuel -- De: Luís M. Arocha Hernández [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: A. de Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED];

Re: Habilitar la tecla Bloq Num al iniciar la máquina en hamm

1998-09-01 Thread maor
J.Parera wrote: Hola, quiero que al arrancar la máquina la tecla Bloq Num esté activa por defecto, que debo hacer? Al hacer man setleds encontramos esto: One might use setleds in /etc/rc to define the initial and default state of NumLock, e.g. by for tty in

RE: Linux en portatiles

1998-09-01 Thread Ignacio Torres Masdeu
P.D.: Por cierto, en Debian 2 biene un emulador para este PDA. El paquete se llama xcopilot_v0.4-iang8-2.deb, y esta dentro del los contrib en la seccion othersfs. Si alguien lo prueba que me diga que tal va (ojo que es una Beta). Funciona bien, pero te hace falta tener un volcado de la rom

Re: Más sobre: En el NS Communicator 4.05 an dejado de fu ncionarme los acentos!!!

1998-09-01 Thread Agustin Martin Domingo
J.Parera wrote: Efectivamente, creo, que tengo la libc5. Tengo entendido que la libc5 que trae la hamm no es la parcheada por T. Quinot, Efectivamente, es la oficial debo/puedo sustituirla por ella? Puedo tener algún tipo de problema si lo hago? Con la libc6, etc. Yo la tengo

Re: Bug en nedit

1998-09-01 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dijo: Estoy usando nedit 5.0.2 y casi siempre que escribo un acento se qeuda colgado. Esya'compilado dinámicamente contra lesstif. ¿Sabe alguien cómo solucionar este problema? En vez de una solución, sería una alternativa. Por que no usas el nedit compilado estáticamente

Re: Impresora laser... (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 11:32:02 +0200 (CET) From: Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Impresora laser... On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Miguel Angel Hernandez Sanchez wrote: Alguien podria decirme como

Me crecen los enanos...

1998-09-01 Thread A. de Miguel
¡Hola...! Como ,elemental querido Watson, podeis deducir del asunto de la cabecera tengo unos cuantos problemillas. Cualquier ayuda para ellos será recompensada con mi agradecimiento eterno y unos cangüingos y unas patas de peces. Los hechos. Dos ordenadores uno de sobremesa y un

lpq

1998-09-01 Thread frodo
Hola, Tengo instalado lprng 3.4.2-5 para imprimir de forma remota con una máquina bajo Sun OS. Tod funciona bien, excepto que lpq no me muestra la cola de trabajos, de forma que para ver la cola tengo que conectarme a la máquina remota. ¿Sabe alguien como hacer que se puedan ver los trabajos en

Re: why does dselect read entire CD?

1998-09-01 Thread Jens Ritter
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I finally got a Debian 2.0 CD, and upgrading has been really easy. However, why does dselect feel the need to read every package file and say skipping deselected file ?? This really slows down the upgrade on my slower CD-ROM, since it aparently has to

Re: APT

1998-09-01 Thread Jens Ritter
Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi, Im with hamm, and want some packages from slink like gnome. What is the recomended way to obtain this packages? If i select the unstable dir of a debian ftp in the apt configuration, apt said it will dowload the selected packages (gnome) plus

RE: cant't get ppp working.

1998-09-01 Thread Mohammad Haque
I also am having problems...heck..i can't even get debian installed cause I wantr to do a ftp install. I get teh same message about the asyncmap butm ine goes an extra step further and reports something about link not 8 bit clean or 7 bit set 0 or something like that. I saw someone had the same

Re: GPIB-ENET

1998-09-01 Thread Jens Ritter
Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi EVeryone, I was just wondering if someone ever wrote a c-library for a General Purpouse Interface Bus(GPIB) controller with ethernet interface? Have a look at the Linux Lab Project. http://ftp.llp.fu-berlin.de/ You will find drivers there. Jens

Re: Help with hamm needed! Where did GetOpt.h, Regex.h, generic.h etc. , go?

1998-09-01 Thread Jens Ritter
Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Igor Bubel wrote: Hello, I am using Debian to develop and add software modules to a larger program for a software company. Recently, I successfully updated my Debian 1.3 to 2.0, using autoup.sh and then dselect to get the latest packages. So

Re: making mp3's

1998-09-01 Thread Jens Ritter
Chris Hoover [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to make some mp3 off of my favorite cd's and was wondering if someone could direct me as how to go about doing this. Which programs do you use, and how to do it. cdda2wav, 8hz. Jens -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID:

Re: SCSI peripherals?

1998-09-01 Thread Jens Ritter
M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an external SCSI zip drive scanner. However, it seems that when I boot my machine if they aren't powered on at boot time, they don't get recognized. Is there any way I can get it to read them after boot time? Or do I have to

re: help with x

1998-09-01 Thread Brian D Kellogg
I have kdm starting at bootup to provide a login screen. so crtl-alt backspace just restarts the unseen login screen. On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:58:20 -0500 Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. At 06:48 PM 8/31/1998 -0400, Brian D Kellogg wrote: I set my default color

Errors with taper 6.9

1998-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just installed taper version 6.9. It seems to backup several MB, then seeks for a few minutes, followed by an error message: Input/output error while writing to tape Retry immediately repeats the error message. Aborting shows a seg fault. I tried reformatting the tape and using a new tape,

Re: Printer

1998-09-01 Thread Donna J. Miller
Mike Holliday wrote: Hi, All you need to do to correct this problem is go into start setting printers remove the bad printer, then use add new printer, you should see your printer there (Common Type), at this point it will ask you for win98, put in your CD, and viola your printing

Re: Error backing up with tob

1998-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
Please ignore. Rebooting fixed the problem. On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: When I try to back up using tob, I get the following error: afio: /dev/ftape: Invalid argument This is using afio version 2.4.4-2 from slink. Is this version not compatible? Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Modules

1998-09-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 11:52:38AM -0700, Pann McCuaig wrote: On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 10:36:07PM +0200, Dennis Janssen wrote: Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question about modules. I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card properly. When I manually give: insmod

Re: Printing to a windows shared printer

1998-09-01 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Aug 31, 1998 at 09:02:11PM +0100, Ian Lynagh wrote: I am having some problems with printing to a windows shared printer over the network. It is a NEC SuperScript 860. If I do lpr -Pnec myfile.txt then the green light goes blink-blink...blink-blink...blink-blink... which means PCL

aspfilter

1998-09-01 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I have used apsfilter for my printer setup previously. I cannot find this in the 2.0 disto. Is it there? If not what else to use. Also when I installed 2.0 it seemed to autimatically install my parallel pont zip drive. Will this prevent me from printing? If so is there a way to disable it?

re: help with x

1998-09-01 Thread Chad Glendenin
you can use ctrl-alt-F1 to switch to virtual console 1 from X. this should give you a console login prompt. to get back to X, press alt-F7. good luck, ccg On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Brian D Kellogg wrote: I have kdm starting at bootup to provide a login screen. so crtl-alt backspace just

netscape

1998-09-01 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, I just installed netscape 4.06 and it crashes on just about every page with a java applet on it. Is this what is happening to everyone. Thanks Alot Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape

1998-09-01 Thread John Maheu
I've found this to be true for every version above 4.05. I suggest using 4.05 John John Maheuphone (403) 492-2049 University of Alberta email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Economics Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6C 2H4

OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they seem pretty MS-Windows oriented. I'm guessing many of you have had a similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the lists.) Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only available from the netscape

[Fwd: Sound card question, mouse question] Try Two

1998-09-01 Thread Christopher M. Wesneski
I'll try sending this again since I didn't get a response. I've been having trouble with mail also but that is unrelated. If there was responses I'm terribly sorry for wasting your time but if it's not too much trouble can you forward them to my work address ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )? I'm positive

Re: New files from ftp?

1998-09-01 Thread LUK ShunTim
Remo Badii wrote: After installing Debian 2.0 last week from CDs, I am now trying to install Netscape 4, pgplot, and tgif using dselect and ftp from the ftp.denian.org site. I also got the message getting ... xfntpex_3.3.2.3 ... xserver-svga Is this because there are new versions of

Re: Sound card question, mouse question

1998-09-01 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote: I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and isapnp. pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings) isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf setserial /dev/ttyS1 port 0x2f8 irq 3 uart 16550 Everything works great. My

Re: cant't get ppp working.

1998-09-01 Thread john
Mark writes: any clues,, what is it looking for? Try editing /etc/chatscript/provider and replacing the string '\d\c' with . Also try dialing in with minicom and working through the login to see what they want. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: cant't get ppp working.

1998-09-01 Thread john
Mohammad Haque writes: I get teh same message about the asyncmap butm ine goes an extra step further and reports something about link not 8 bit clean or 7 bit set 0 or something like that. This usually means that pppd has started sending ppp packets before the other end is ready. It is

Re: Fetchmail don't work for me !

1998-09-01 Thread john
Randy Edwards writes: The kludge that I've worked out is to put an individual system crontab entry for each user. The crontab points to a small script in the user's home directory which runs fetchmail as the individual user. I run fetchmail as a user named 'postman', delivering all mail to

Re: SyJet

1998-09-01 Thread A. M. Varon
On Sat, 22 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering if anyone had any expierence with using the Syjet (from Syqest) drive with Debian Linux. I am currently considering buying a Syjet 2 gig drive. I am just wondering how are/if possible to have it run on my linux system. The

Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
You might be able to convert to 128-bit encryption using fortify. See www.fortify.net. I haven't tried it on the libc6 version of netscape, however it works fine on the libc5 version. On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Nick Cabatoff wrote: I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but

Re: network unreachable

1998-09-01 Thread Remo Badii
I had (maybe) the same problem yesterday: edit /etc/pcmcia/network.opts and put IP-Address, Network, Gateway, Broadcast addresses there (without quotes around). Remo | Dr. Remo Badii | Paul Scherrer Institute | | Nonlinear

Re: netscape

1998-09-01 Thread A. M. Varon
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: I just installed Netscape 4.06 and it crashes on just about every page with a Java applet on it. Is this what is happening to everyone. Hi, I have been using Netscape 4.06 (With or Without Java.) without any problems. In fact, It's much more stable

Re: Printer

1998-09-01 Thread Martin Schulze
Mike Holliday wrote: Hi, All you need to do to correct this problem is go into start setting printers remove the bad printer, then use add new printer, you should see your printer there (Common Type), at this point it will ask you for win98, put in your CD, and viola your printing

X11 installation problems

1998-09-01 Thread Cristov Russell
Second try - Just in case there is anyone who can help me with this but might have missed it the first time. Thanks I'm having trouble with the VGA16 server during the configuration portion of dselect. It asks if I want it to create the configuration file and when I say yes I get a message

Modules

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
|Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules. |I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I |manually |give: | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0 | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11 |I get the message that the ne modules has

Re: X11 installation problems

1998-09-01 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Cristov: You should be running dselect from the root account. If you are ignore the above sentence. I personally have to run dselect several times when performing a raw install. This is because some of the dependencies must be satistied before other packages can be installed ( I think ).

re: help with x

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
use crtlaltF1 this will get you a non-X login screen. You can then log in as root an fix the problem. _ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they seem pretty MS-Windows oriented. I'm guessing many of you have had a similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the lists.) Netscape 4.06 with

OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
--- I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they seem pretty MS-Windows oriented. I'm guessing many of you have had a similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the lists.) Netscape 4.06 with

Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Jens Ch. Lisner
Hmm, I tried fortify with netscape 4.05, but it says something about an unknown version or such a thing. On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: You might be able to convert to 128-bit encryption using fortify. See www.fortify.net. I haven't tried it on the libc6 version of netscape,

Re: Disabling virtual desktops in X

1998-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote: Yes you can. You just treat the size of your desktop like the colour depth, and run an X server for each kind. (There's a package to allow one to cut and paste between different server instances.) Where can I get it to have a try? The package

Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
Possibly you had an older version of Fortify. They typically come out with a new version each time Netscape changes (nothing for 4.50, however). On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Jens Ch. Lisner wrote: Hmm, I tried fortify with netscape 4.05, but it says something about an unknown version or such a

X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Jens Ritter
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1998 09:33:48 +0200 From: Vankeerberghen Pieter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'Jens Ritter' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: X11 remains black The problem: Debian 1.1 upgraded to 1.3, and now to 2.0: Conversion to libc6 done a long time ago. Recompiled

Seyon and Xadmin... can't see but it's there....

1998-09-01 Thread Person, Rod
Hey, I am a newbie so here it goes. . . . First off I installed linux by downloading everything of the net onto a DOS partition. Now I'm up and running, but of course I keep get this depends on that or suggest and recommends...that all good. The first question is when I use Xadmin it just

Re: AGP Video Cards?

1998-09-01 Thread Michael B. Taylor
SuSE recently released a server for the G200. This will probably make it into the next release of XFree86, but for now it is beta. My previous experience with using SuSE servers with Debian (the then new nVidia server) was favorable. But unless you are pretty good at setting up X, I suggest

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 03:49:32PM +0200, Jens Ritter forwarded: [X fails with gcc 2.8.1 compiled 2.0.x kernel] Linux 2.0.x kernels rely on knowledge of the compiler's method optimisation that is only valid for gcc 2.7.x, so you should use only a 2.7.x version to compile them; this is why Debian

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen black, machine locked ? When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this 2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2..

Auc Tex not working

1998-09-01 Thread Johann Spies
After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working. I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included the following in my .emacs - file: (setq TeX-auto-save t) (setq TeX-parse-self t) (setq-default TeX-master nil) I have re-installed auctex but without success. Does anybody knows

From: !Rider@VenomNET! rider@tricom.net, Thanks for the reply!

1998-09-01 Thread David B. Teague
Hi Please excuse posting this to the list, but There were no return address that my mailer likes in the message Rider posted to me. If Rider will email me with a usable return address in the body of the message, I'll forward the information he requests. --David -- Forwarded message

Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

1998-09-01 Thread James G. MacKinnon
I have been trying to help a colleague install Debian 2.0 on his ThinkPad 600. Red Hat 5.0 previously installed fine. However, he has been unable to boot from either the standard Debian 2.0 rescue disk or the Tecra rescue disk. Believing that this is a problem caused by all the extra drivers in

Swapping problems

1998-09-01 Thread Beernd Noordkamp
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi debian-users I've installed debian 1.3 only recently. I've got a 486DX33 with 16MB RAM and 270MB hard disk: 100MB for DOS, 16MB linux swap, 40MB linux root and the rest /usr. My problem is that as soon as linux starts swapping, things go wrong. `Trying to

Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

1998-09-01 Thread Steve Hsieh
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, James G. MacKinnon wrote: I have been trying to help a colleague install Debian 2.0 on his ThinkPad 600. Red Hat 5.0 previously installed fine. However, he has been unable to boot from either the standard Debian 2.0 rescue disk or the Tecra rescue disk. It's probably

Re: Linux console bug(s) (?)

1998-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Zini Enrico wrote: [...] And, while I'm here, is it normal that scrolling back (pressing PageUp) in less is much slower than scrolling up? It even quite annoying... I've only noticed that when you're displaying a binary file of substantial size, and have assumed it's to

Re: Installing and configuring Emacs20

1998-09-01 Thread David Wright
On 30 Aug 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: I've installed the initial six diskettes from Debian 2.0 on my PC. After reboot I choose for a home user setup and via dselect I picked up all the files from ftp.cistron.nl, a Debian mirror site. I am having problems with the emacs20 package. During

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Jens == Jens Ritter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jens When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at all. Please note that this Jens 2.0.30 kernel was made with gcc 2.7.2.. while the 2.0.34 with Jens gcc 2.8.1. The gcc 2.8.1 is the culprit. kernel still needs gcc 2.7.2.

Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

1998-09-01 Thread James G. MacKinnon
Re my earlier message about being unable to install Debian 2.0 on a ThinkPad 600 that runs Red Hat 5.0 fine. We are still unable to create a kernel that will allow the rescue disk to boot. Steve Hsieh kindly pointed out that we should have read readme.txt on the rescue disk and run rdev.sh after

Re: Modules

1998-09-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
Kenneth Scharf wrote: |Just installed Debian 2.0, and now I have a question |about modules. |I have managed to get isapnp setup my network card |properly. When I |manually |give: | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ 8390.0 | insmod /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ne io=0x220 irq=11 |I get the

how does libc5-compat work?

1998-09-01 Thread Thomas Gebhardt
Hi, obviously it is still possible to run (most) of the old libc5 binaries in hamm. Somehow ld knows when it is necessary to use the libs from the libc5-compat directory. How does this mechanism work? I have a program that segfaults; obviously it tries to use both libc5 *and* libc6: $ ldd

Re: X11 installation problems

1998-09-01 Thread Kent West
As Peter suggests below, you can run xf86config (as root) from outside of dselect to create the XF86Config file. Alternatively, you can run XF86Setup for a graphical routine to create the file. I've found that if one of these doesn't produce a useable XF86Config file, sometimes the other routine

re: help with x

1998-09-01 Thread Kent West
At 06:48 PM 8/31/1998 -0400, Brian D Kellogg wrote: I set my default color depth to 32 bit and now nothing displays on my screen. Is there a way to exit it back to the prompt so I can change the default back to 24 bit. thanx, Brian On Mon, 31 Aug 1998 17:58:20 -0500 Kent West [EMAIL

rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35

1998-09-01 Thread Christophe Broult
Hello, Is there a version of the rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35? Chris -- Looking for a cutting edge | Christophe Broult software validation technology? | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Check http://www.info.unicaen.fr/lpv | ``Smile, chuckle, giggle''

Minimum hardware for Netscape

1998-09-01 Thread Kent West
What's the real-world minimum hardware for running Netscape on top of X? I've got a 386-40 with 8MB that does okay for the command line stuff, but Netscape is horridly slow. I know the 386 is underpowered, but it's all I've got right now. I was just wondering if doubling my RAM would bring

Re: Auc Tex not working

1998-09-01 Thread Immanuel Yap
Johann Spies wrote: After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working. I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included the following in my .emacs - file: (setq TeX-auto-save t) (setq TeX-parse-self t) (setq-default TeX-master nil) I have re-installed auctex but without

Re: how does libc5-compat work?

1998-09-01 Thread jdassen
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 05:38:42PM +0200, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: obviously it is still possible to run (most) of the old libc5 binaries in hamm. Somehow ld knows when it is necessary to use the libs from the ld.so, not ld. libc5-compat directory. How does this mechanism work? ELF binaries

Monitoring upsd

1998-09-01 Thread Jay Barbee
I just hooked my Linux box upto a UPS (APC SmartUPS 900) and I have the serial link hooked up. When I run /etc/init.d/ups start, it runs, but the following error is logged: /sbin/upsd: log: UPS_ERROR The daemon is still running, but I am not sure if I can determine what is going on with the

Re: kernel package

1998-09-01 Thread David Wright
On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Kenneth Scharf wrote: When I installed debian 2.0 from CD I was asked what modules I wanted configured into the kernel. These modules are called out in /etc/modules. I have rebuilt the kernel using the kernel package utility. This created a

How much shoud be in /var/log/messages

1998-09-01 Thread Jay Barbee
I don't typically remember /var/log/messages being as empty (mostly MARK entries). I have the following entry in syslog.conf: *.=info;*.=notice;*.=warn;\ auth,authpriv.none;\ cron,daemon.none;\ mail,news.none -/var/log/messages ...that is the only play messages

Re: Getting Debian 2.0 to boot on ThinkPad 600

1998-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I don't know if it's any help at all, but after figuring out to type linux floppy=thinkpad at the prompt, I had no problems at all on a thinkpad 755c . . . save that I still don't have the battery working rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my retainer.

Pine 4.02

1998-09-01 Thread C.J.LAWSON
Hi, I have just gotten the latest (I think) version of pine and seemed to have compiled it OK (with '000's of warning messages ... what did I do wrong).. The matter is: I was under the impression that it automatically highlighted html text within an email so one could follow the link .. I have

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 10:01:48AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote: Hi, using the PCMCIA drivers), but if I start X (version included in Debian 2.0), the screen remains black. SuperProbe does not work neither. Screen black, machine locked ? When I reboot with 2.0.30, no problems, not at

Re: X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, I believe that the latest development 2.1.x kernels can be compiled using the new compilers. I am not suggesting that you use the development kernels, however. Why not? :) I got 2.1.119 last night...man it is sweet :) My first development kernel :) I didn't want to be responsible

Re: netscape

1998-09-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
A. M. Varon wrote: On Mon, 31 Aug 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: I just installed Netscape 4.06 and it crashes on just about every page with a Java applet on it. Is this what is happening to everyone. Hi, I have been using Netscape 4.06 (With or Without Java.) without any problems.

Re: rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35

1998-09-01 Thread Christophe Broult
Christophe Broult [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, Is there a version of the rescue disk with Linux 2.0.35? I've found how I could version 2.0.35 after reading section ``8.3 Replacing the Kernel'' http://www.debian.org/2.0/install.html:-( -- Looking for a cutting edge |

Re: OT: netscape 4/libc6/128-bit encryption

1998-09-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
Nick Cabatoff wrote: I know this question belongs properly in the netscape forums, but they seem pretty MS-Windows oriented. I'm guessing many of you have had a similar problem already (though I haven't seen anything recently on the lists.) Netscape 4.06 with 128-bit encryption is only

Re: Sound card question, mouse question

1998-09-01 Thread Ed Cogburn
To add to what stephen said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 29 Aug, Christopher M. Wesneski wrote: I recently learned how to setup my Plug-and-Pray modem using pnpdump and isapnp. pnpdump /etc/isapnp.conf (then select the correct settings) isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf setserial

XDM on 2.0

1998-09-01 Thread Kenneth Scharf
When I start X with XDM and log in the 'debian banner' stays in the background of my desktop. I have to drag the xterm window around to erase it. This did not happen in 1.3.1. (the banner was cleared before the window manager started). It does not seem to matter which window manager I use

INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

1998-09-01 Thread Eric Jacoboni
Hi, Having a RH system, i've switched to Debian Hamm. So far, so good... I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd like to have a pure deb system so

Re: XDM on 2.0

1998-09-01 Thread Jules Bean
On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Kenneth Scharf wrote: When I start X with XDM and log in the 'debian banner' stays in the background of my desktop. I have to drag the xterm window around to erase it. This did not happen in 1.3.1. (the banner was cleared before the window manager started). It does not

2.1.119 breaks X with Cirrus 544x video

1998-09-01 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I successfully installed a 2.1.119 kernel on my bosses dual P2 machine. However, X now seems hopelessly broken. It still works if we boot with the old 2.0.34 kernel. I can't even offer any error messages, because it doesn't yield any. I've tried a complete reconfig with XF86Setup, but it

Re: Seyon and Xadmin... can't see but it's there....

1998-09-01 Thread Kent West
At 09:53 AM 9/1/1998 -0400, you wrote: Hey, I am a newbie so here it goes. . . . First off I installed linux by downloading everything of the net onto a DOS partition. Now I'm up and running, but of course I keep get this depends on that or suggest and recommends...that all good. The first

Re: Sendmail and virtualdomains

1998-09-01 Thread Thomas O. Kruse
Hi, today I tried to reconfigure mySendmail 8.8.8 (hamm distribution) to set up some virtualdomains. I followed instructions I've seen at www.sendmail.org/virtual-hosting.html and added line FEATURE(virtusertable, `dbm /etc/virtusertable')dnl to my /etc/mail/sendmail.mc file (at the end of file,

X11 remains black (fwd)

1998-09-01 Thread Tomihisa \(Tom\) Welsh
On Tue, Sep 01, 1998 at 03:49:32PM +0200, Jens Ritter forwarded: [X fails with gcc 2.8.1 compiled 2.0.x kernel] Linux 2.0.x kernels rely on knowledge of the compiler's method optimisation that is only valid for gcc 2.7.x, so you should use only a 2.7.x version to compile them; this is why Debian

Re: INN, Cleanfeed and Debian Hamm

1998-09-01 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Eric Jacoboni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that the inn server shiped does not contains perl filter capabilities and that there is no cleanfeed files. What can i do to have a Inn server with Perl filtering enable ? I'd like to have a pure deb system so i'd

Re: Minimum hardware for Netscape

1998-09-01 Thread Ervin D . Walter
[Posted and mailed] In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent West) writes: What's the real-world minimum hardware for running Netscape on top of X? I've got a 386-40 with 8MB that does okay for the command line stuff, but Netscape is horridly slow. I know the 386 is

driver for 3com fast etherlink XL ?

1998-09-01 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I need to find a driver for my net card in win nt is name is driver for 3com fast etherlink XL. HELP! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

FREE PROXY FOR DEBIAN AND WIN95!!!!

1998-09-01 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
I tried sambar (www.sambar.com) is a free proxy you can install in win 95 but it do not have page caching. Someone know about a FREE proxy that I can install in win95. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: driver for 3com fast etherlink XL ?

1998-09-01 Thread Ossama Othman
I need to find a driver for my net card in win nt is name is driver for 3com fast etherlink XL. You want the driver for 3Com 3c90x cards which is supported in the 3c59x driver/module. -Ossama

Re: Beowulf cluster

1998-09-01 Thread Greg Vence
Here is one other HOWTO http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/research/beowulf/tutorial/ Enjoy -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4

netscape

1998-09-01 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, Well i am getting a little frustrated now. I have tried downloading both netscape 4.05 and 4.06 and each time I installed it still crashes on pages with java applets on it. I used the netscape script to install it via dselect. I would be happy to here any selections. Thanks Alot Rick --

Problem with dselect

1998-09-01 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I ran deselect, set flags to install packages, checked dependencies, and installed pkgs. Dselect said Installation Ok. Hit RETURN then I chose 4[c]onfigure after config, i quit deselect. When I re-entered deselect and checked which packages were installed, the ones that I'd just

Re: netscape

1998-09-01 Thread servis
*- Rick Knebel wrote about netscape | Hi, | Well i am getting a little frustrated now. | I have tried downloading both netscape 4.05 and 4.06 and each time I installed | it still crashes on pages with java applets on it. | I used the netscape script to install it via dselect. | I would be happy

Re: Auc Tex not working

1998-09-01 Thread Johann Spies
Thanks Noel. That solved the problem. Johann On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Immanuel Yap wrote: Johann Spies wrote: After upgrading Debian 2.0 (emacs20) Auc Tex is not working. I have, as the auc tex info file indicated, included the following in my .emacs - file: (setq TeX-auto-save t)

plip and win95

1998-09-01 Thread David Karlin
Here is the email I recieved regarding plip-win95 connection: James, if you could find that you would make me very happy. Thanks for the response. --David Here is is: From: Adam Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: James Vahn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: PLIP on Windows95 I succeeded. PLIP does

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