Noel Yap wrote:
>
> David Warnock wrote:
> > I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the
> > default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong
> > server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA.
> ^^
>
> I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives
> for it, but without success.
>
> How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session?
>
# Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 16:19:01 -0500
# From: "Jens B. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
# Organization: Busine
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote:
> Jianbo Zhang wrote:
> >
> > Hi Debians,
> >
> > When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it
> > says that some libc5 and motif related files could not be found. So I
> > installed Communicator 4.06 in my fresh Debian (2.0) Linux
Nils Rennebarth wrote:
>
> On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote:
> > I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear [the X background] to
> > a single colour.
Nils,
Great thanks, just what I wanted.
Dave
1. ... don't know (I'm still using dselect, haven't tried apt)
2. Make sure you have fat/vfat & msdos support compiled in your kernel
and then mount (manually or via some entry in fstab) your Win9x
partition with the command 'mount -t msdos /dev/hdxx /mnt' where hdxx is
replaced by you partition i
Add the user to the group "dip".
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, DMDP wrote:
> If there anyway to have a normal user access PON?
>
> If not, is there a way to enable dial up access to an ISP for a normal user
> using some other utility?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Denis
>
>
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It showed up in slink earlier today.
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Michael Montz wrote:
> Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
>
> > (Before somebody asks: I *am* uploading -- or trying to -- 0.19.1-1 right
> > now)
>
> Has this happen yet?
>
> Regards,
> Michael
>
>
> --
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Perhaps I can help you a bit:
1) PPP HOWTO and /usr/doc/ppp/* help a lot.
2) You might did it already, but one thing to do when trying to test the
connection is to log in as root. This way you can eliminate problems that can
rise because of unsatisfactory permitions untill after you know you ca
If there anyway to have a normal user access PON?
If not, is there a way to enable dial up access to an ISP for a normal user
using some other utility?
Thanks,
Denis
Marcelo E. Magallon wrote:
> (Before somebody asks: I *am* uploading -- or trying to -- 0.19.1-1 right
> now)
Has this happen yet?
Regards,
Michael
First of all, HUGE THANKS to everyone who has answered my questions over
the past few weeks. Just to let you know, I actually have X running now.
Now my ???
1. Is there a different way to install packages while in X or should I
still be using dselect??
2. What/How/Where/Who/When do I
Hi,
I am trying to put Debian linux on an HP Kayak machine. I've put
Debian on a bunch of other machines before, but this one is
giving me problems unlike any I've seen. The system has a
Symbios 53C875 SCSI controller with one disk, an IDE interface
connected to the CDROM, an "integrated" ethern
On: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 02:16:39 + Phillip Neumann writes:
>
> Hi,
> Im wondering if someone is running ``Inferno'' somewhere
> Its a network OS from Bell...
>
> If yes, what are the advantages ???
Take a look into the comp.os.inferno newsgroup. Maybe there are FAQs
or something similiar p
You need msdos fs support in the kernel, as the error message says. Add this
support as a module so you won't have to reboot to enable it.
Chandran
Hank Fay wrote on Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 03:37:27PM -0400..
> I rebuilt my kernel (Hamm) for firewalling, and included the floppy support
> option. H
I rebuilt my kernel (Hamm) for firewalling, and included the floppy support
option. However, since then I can't mount the floppy drive. I see it
recognized (fd0) at boot up, but when I
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy
I'm told that fs type msdos is not supported by the kernel. When I try vfat
t
>From the xhost manpages, ``xhost +local:'' should work better than +localhost,
if you are on a network; this only allows clients on the local machine to
display X clients.
Chandran
> If you're not on a network: 'xhost +localhost' (as user)
Andrew wrote on Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 10:53:01PM +1200.
David Warnock wrote:
> I suggest you look in the man pages for startx. You should see that the
> default X server to start is X. On my system that was starting the wrong
> server so I changed X to be a symbolic link to XF86_SVGA.
On a Debia
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
> Dip is for an old package called 'dip'. It was sort of line 'pon' I think.
> Since the
> package has long since gone away I find it annoying we're still stuck with
> the group.
On the contrary, dip is still available in slink. I use it to dial up
my ISP since it's the
Jan Krupa wrote:
>
> I used rawrite2 to prepare two 1440 floppies: resc1440.bin
> and drv1440.bin (from Linux/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/).
> I booted compter from floppy resc1440.bin and then installed modules and
> drivers from floppy drv1440.bin then configured modules and driv
I've successfully installed debian 2.0 on my thinkpad 560e, but I'm
still getting frequent crashes. It boots and loads fine, and is
network accessible, but seconds after I start typing on the keyboard
it unloads the pcmcia card and reloads it. This behavior ONLY happens
if I type on the machine'
The latest version of ncftp beta (not sure if it's in a deb tree yet) has
two additional programs, ncftpget and ncftpput, for doing exactly that, get
and put ftp operations from a script.
Available here:
http://www.probe.net/~mgleason/
On Thu, Sep 03, 1998 at 02:54:46PM -0700, Darren Benham wrot
Some time around Thu, 03 Sep 1998 14:37:55 +1200,
Michael Beattie wrote:
>
> Isnt that a valid reason to filter out @hotmail.com, @lycos.com etc?
I am the debian anti-spam person, and I don't like to blanketly filter on
from: addresses. Hotmail or lycos do not have anything to
Some time around Wed, 02 Sep 1998 11:15:31 EDT,
"Person, Rod" wrote:
> I can't figure this out. I have been installing Debian for about 2 weeks
> of and on. I'm downloading from the net to a DOS partition.
> Every so often my Linux partition gives me a 'can not allocate memory
> erro
Some time around Wed, 02 Sep 1998 07:52:25 CDT,
"Richard E. Hawkins Esq." wrote:
>
> Oh, dear. Just as i decided to store the whole file system, reinit
> the hd, and reinstall, it beat me to it by one boot. I had been
> getting error messaes from fdisk, and it wouldn't create my n
Hi - I've had this problem with Redhat (before I scrapped it) but now I
have debian so I thought I'd ask here - I've a megahertz combo card
(10baseT/28.8). Unfortunately, both cannot work at the same time! In
winblows I had to create two hardware profiles to disable respective
portions of the card.
Hi!
Simple question:
Does anybody know of a way of making winNT use the usernames and the
passwords of a debian machine?
If so, please tell me!
Thanks!
Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum
2:343/108.91 - _`\<;_
Hello,
Today I have dowloaded and isntaled wmaker 0.19 from slik (unstable)
using apt.
The instalation was OK, but I can not start wmaker now. I get the
following error message:
$ wmaker
/usr/X11R6/bin/WindowMaker: error in loading shared libraries
: undefined symbol: _Xsetlocale
I first though
*-Ken Westerback <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| Late at night after a hard day fiddling with getting my Debian 2.0
| installation working I was working on RealAudio and got so frustrated
| with problems accessing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio that I changed their
| permissions with
|
| chmod 622 /dev/dsp
| ch
Taylen wrote:
>
> hey, I recently got a new system, and decided that maybe this time my video
> card(now an STB nVidia, Riva 128 chipset, with 8 megs of vram)...anyway, I
> get it setup with XF86Setup and do startx, it starts, but in 320x240
> resolution, I tried doing alt+ctrl+ +or- but that woul
Nathan Einwechter wrote:
>
> Help!
> I just installed Debian on my laptop and don't know where to go from here. I
> can't add any programs because I can't figure out how to dial into my
> server. Some out there! PLEASE HELP!
>
Did pppconfig work for you? Please be a little more spe
Subject: deb for StarOffice 4
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 10:40:04 +
From: David Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Debian Users Mailing List
I have downloaded StarOffice 4. I have not seen a package to install
this (there is one for StarOffice 3.1).
a) Is there a package somewhere that will inst
Jianbo Zhang wrote:
>
> Hi Debians,
>
> When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0.12.deb, I got some error message: it
> says that some libc5 and motif related files could not be found. So I
> installed Communicator 4.06 in my fresh Debian (2.0) Linux box with
> nsinstall. So far I did not find any prob
Late at night after a hard day fiddling with getting my Debian 2.0
installation working I was working on RealAudio and got so frustrated
with problems accessing /dev/dsp and /dev/audio that I changed their
permissions with
chmod 622 /dev/dsp
chmod 622 /dev/audio
thus allowing everyone (my normal
Hello everyone:
I have downloaded the whole Debian 2.0 distribution in order to make
installation CDs for me
and people working in our laboratory. When I did so for the release
1.3.1 I had no problems at all
but this time I can not make the official CD bootable. The steps were
the following:
1 -
As X usually starts in the HIGHEST supported resolution, it appears
that your config is broken for anything better than 320x240. This
usually happens when the server thinks that it does not have access to
enough video memory, or the proper clock rates. Run superprobe and
see what it finds. You m
I think you might have to add /usr/local/lib to your shell path
variable.
I just installed a program that has a dynamically linked library. I
placed
the lib in /usr/local/lib and added "/usr/local/lib/" to /etc/ld.so.conf
and ran ldconfig as roo
On Sat, Sep 05, 1998 at 12:45:43PM +, David Warnock wrote:
> I am quite a boring person and wondered how to clear [the X background] to
> a single colour.
xsetroot -solid
Nils
--
*-*
| Quotes from the net: L> Linus
You might try http://www.tomshardware.com. This site specializes in
various hardware reviews, including motherboards. They currently have
several articles about AGP. They even have recommendations - but do not
in my experience mention Linux so be carefull!
Ken
Phillip Neumann wrote:
>
> Hi
Dinesh Nadarajah wrote:
>
> Couple of questions concerning Debian Linux:
>
> 1. How can I install .deb packages in RehHat?
Not likely. There is a prog called alien that can install a rpm
package on Debian, but it doesn't work all the time. I don't know if
there is an equivalent for t
I am using XFree86 with icewm. The desktop background is a distracting
pattern. So far I clear this (which has sort of difraction patterns at
high res) by using the fishtank application. I am quite a boring person
and wondered how to clear it to a single colour.
Thanks
Dave
Hi,
I am using XFree86 (the suse one that supports Permedia 2 cards). I am
currently using icewm as my window manager.
I am looking for an application launcher that will sit on my desktop and
provide direct access to applications. I guess I could change the menu
but I would prefer to lick on ico
> Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon.
> /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to
> open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider
failed
> :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding it
back?
The users mu
On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Andrew wrote:
>
> I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives
> for it, but without success.
>
> How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session?
Many ways...
1) su in an xterm.. no worries.
2) As root on a VC:
# xauth
*-Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives
| for it, but without success.
|
| How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session?
If you're not on a network: 'xhost +localhost' (as user)
--
.elOle.
Hello Rick
Provide a trace of a dialin attempt and I'm certain
someone can tell you what is wrong.
Peter
-Original Message-
From: Rick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date: Saturday, September 05, 1998 7:27 AM
Subject: PPPD
>Hi
>
>I ahve been trying to mak
Hi
I ahve been trying to make it so a few of my friends can dial in to my high
speed line and get PPP access.. I read the howto and have done everything
there and still they get a Cannot establish connection check your password
( you know standard windows error) well we can all dial in normally to
when I try to run mutt I get:
Need to be running setgid 0 to lock mailbox!
What do I do about this? It works fine when run as root (naturally), but
not as a user.
Andrew Tarr
"We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges,
proclaiming us `The Nicest of the Damned'"
-- The
Hello all,
I apologize for this slightly off-topic message.
This message is sent to announce the creation of a new list about
Linux. This new list has been born with the following objectives:
1) It's dedicated only to technical questions about Linux. The idea is
that the list could be an useful
I know this has been addressed before, I've tried searching the archives
for it, but without success.
How do you run an X program as root whilst still in a user X session?
Andrew Tarr
"We were so close to heaven --- Peter came out and gave us badges,
proclaiming us `The Nicest of the Damned
I have downloaded StarOffice 4. I have not seen a package to install
this (there is one for StarOffice 3.1).
a) Is there a package somewhere that will install so40sp3_lnx_01.tar.gz
b) If there is not how easy is it to create on like the one for
StarOffice 3.1 (or Netscape 4)? I am interested not
Taylen wrote:
>
> hey, I recently got a new system, and decided that maybe this time my video
> card(now an STB nVidia, Riva 128 chipset, with 8 megs of vram)...anyway, I
> get it setup with XF86Setup and do startx, it starts, but in 320x240
> resolution, I tried doing alt+ctrl+ +or- but that woul
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 05:09:51PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote:
> does anybody know of an ISDN-adaptor that can be used in the
> whole world (especially Japan and Europe) and is supported by
> Debian?
The hardware isn't the problem. This is an area where ISDN is the
same all over the world (correc
hey, I recently got a new system, and decided that maybe this time my video
card(now an STB nVidia, Riva 128 chipset, with 8 megs of vram)...anyway, I
get it setup with XF86Setup and do startx, it starts, but in 320x240
resolution, I tried doing alt+ctrl+ +or- but that wouldn't work...after
that I
Hi,
Im wondering if someone is running ``Inferno'' somewhere
Its a network OS from Bell...
If yes, what are the advantages ???
thanks,
--
__
/ /
On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
[snip]
> > Same. Cyrix make cheaper alternatives to Intel chips. The catch is a
> > higher power consumption.. therefore HEAT! (Oh.. and not as good an FPU)
> > Try the 'set6x86' package.. good for enabling the HALT feature.. from the
> > README file:
>
Kenneth Scharf writes:
> Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon.
> /var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to
> open /etc/chatscripts/provider. --open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed
> :access denied. All users have read perm. What file is holding
> I would like my return address on all outgoing mail to be my address at my
> ISP. I believe this is done by modifying the headers on outgoing mail?
In smail, you use the visible domain name for this. It will use this for
the part of the address after @.
--
Thomas Behrndt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
htyj wrote:
> I used alien like the following:
>
> alien -d .rpm
>
> but an error msg was printed out:
>
> sh: cpio command not found.
>
> I've installed rpm, debmake, gcc, make,etc.
> Is there any other packages needed? If not, how to deal with this problem?
You need to install cpio. Bu
I have on one partition (1G) Win95, Fat32. I would like to install
Debian on the rest part of hard disk (2G) but the problem is that
I do not have CD-ROM with the distribution and AFIK there is no way
to install debian from Win95 FAT32 partition so I need to install
debian via internet (ftp, fns).
I have on one partition (1G) Win95, Fat32. I would like to install
Debian on the rest part of hard disk (2G) but the problem is that
I do not have CD-ROM with the distribution and AFIK there is no way
to install debian from Win95 FAT32 partition so I need to install
debian via internet (ftp, fns).
On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 04:55:44PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Either get the glibc version of Netscape
> in /pub/communicator/4.06/development/english/unix/linux20_glibc2
> or install the necessary libc5 packages.
>
> On Fri, 4 Sep 1998, Jianbo Zhang wrote:
>
> > When I run dpkg -i netscape4_4.0
Hello,
Sorry for the slightly off-topic question, but I am not sure to what
extent it can be Debian 2.0-related...
I have managed to install Debian 2.0 on an older AT&T Globalyst S10
server, which ran NetWare 3.12 for a couple of years.
The first strange thing was that I had to use the tecra resc
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