Re: Logoff & clearscreen

1998-09-22 Thread Matt Garman
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 11:32:34PM +, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the > next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this? Not too long ago, the same question was asked. There are a billion ways to accomplish what you wa

Re: Samba doesn't know host name

1998-09-22 Thread Kent West
Fixed. Changed the name in /etc/hosts also. At 04:14 PM 9/22/1998 -0500, you wrote: >At 03:39 PM 9/22/1998 -0500, you wrote: >>I installed Samba on my debian box the other day, but haven't figured out >>how to use it very well yet. At the time the box was named "sheasbys". >>Today I changed the ho

Re: Logoff & clearscreen

1998-09-22 Thread Terry Carney
On 22 Sep 1998, Ruud de Bruin wrote: > I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the > next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this? If you are using bash then create a file named '.bash_logout', if one dowsn't exist, and add the single command 'clear' .

Re: Compiling the dpkg source package..

1998-09-22 Thread ninjaz
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > dpkg-source -x foo_version.dsc > cd foo_version > debian/rules binary or dpkg-buildpackage -b -us -uc > > Marcus Thanks - I appreciate it. :) The output of dpkg-buildpackage even showed how to call aclocal to get things started, and

Logoff & clearscreen

1998-09-22 Thread Ruud de Bruin
I want to issue a "clearscreen" in or after a logout command so that the next login is on a blank screen. How can I accomplish this? regards, Ruud.

touchpad driver?

1998-09-22 Thread D'jinnie
Ok, it hurts me to say this - but it seems like Win95 actually has one advantage over Linux: it has nifty touchpad driver where you can configure a scroll zone, how light your touch is, etc. Has anyone worked on anything similar in Linux? --- Democracy is a government where you can say what you t

PGP

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
Hmmm Whats a good way to jog your memory to remember your PGP passphrase? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. -

Re: Samba doesn't know host name

1998-09-22 Thread Kent West
At 03:39 PM 9/22/1998 -0500, you wrote: >I installed Samba on my debian box the other day, but haven't figured out >how to use it very well yet. At the time the box was named "sheasbys". >Today I changed the hostname to "jonah". I did this by changing the name in >/etc/hostname and then by issuing

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Oz Dror wrote: > > What is the MIME type for mp3 > what lines to add to .mailcap and .mime.types I THINK it is audio/x-mp3 Although I am probably wrong. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as su

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-09-22 Thread technical
>> sorry but I need to know where exactly .bash_profile is located and which usually in your home directory (cd ~) >> editor do I use to edit it. I tried the vi editor. I show nothing and I >> don't know the command to get out of it. Even control c (^C) does not help. > >OK. Login as a normal

Fwd: /usr/local

1998-09-22 Thread Kent West
This came to me but was supposed to arrive at the list (but the list address had an extra "s"). I've forwarded it to the list. (Sorry I don't know enough about Linux to address your question.) --Kent >X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-Date: 22 Sep 1998 17:37:45 - >Resent-From: [EMA

Samba doesn't know host name

1998-09-22 Thread Kent West
I installed Samba on my debian box the other day, but haven't figured out how to use it very well yet. At the time the box was named "sheasbys". Today I changed the hostname to "jonah". I did this by changing the name in /etc/hostname and then by issuing the command "hostname -F/etc/hostname". Now

Re: How to get rid of the motd

1998-09-22 Thread shaul
You have to touch .hushlogin. [04:43:35 shaul]$ man login LOGIN(1) LOGIN(1) NAME login - Begin session on the system SYNOPSIS login [username [environmental-variables]] DESCRIPTION login is used to establish a new session wi

automatic updates

1998-09-22 Thread Brian Schramm
I have a machine that I would like to set up for unatended updates. I can ssh into it to do things but I may not be able to all the time. I would like to have any prompts ansured in the default mode automaticly and have it send me a massage to my main email account of what packages it updated.

Re: SVGALib, Xpert@Play and sQuake/Quake II

1998-09-22 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 05:57:26PM -0500, Ryan Kirkpatrick wrote: > On Sun, 20 Sep 1998, Adrian Bridgett wrote: > > > Matrox Millenium isn't particularly well supported by SVGAlib at the moment. > > I have an improved patch here, but I'm a bit wary of some trimmed security > > patches which are in

Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas

1998-09-22 Thread Joey Hess
JonesMB wrote: > I recently had a hard drive die on me causing me to lose lots of data. I > have rebuilt my system (a K6/233 with Debian on 1GB and Win95 on 1GB) and I'm > looking at various ways of backing up my data so I don't lose it all again. > I currently have about 2 GB of drive space t

Re: pcmcia scsi

1998-09-22 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 22 Sep, Giuseppe Sacco wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to buy a pcmcia scsi card for my laptop. Can someone suggest me a > model that is know it works with Debian linux? > There is a complete list of supported cards at http://hyper.stanford.edu/~dhinds/pcmcia/SUPPORTED.CARDS Unfortunately, th

Re: desktop calendar for linux

1998-09-22 Thread Colin Telmer
On 22 Sep 1998, Matt Garman wrote: > Anybody know of something like this? Or would it be a good project > for me? You would be reinventing the wheel if I understand what you are looking for. Try plan which is packaged as a debian package. Great program. Also look at http://www.bitrot.de/plan.htm

Re: desktop calendar for linux

1998-09-22 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | The following message is a courtesy copy of an article | that has been posted to uiuc.sw.linux as well. | | | I am looking for a type of "desktop calendar" application for Linux. | | Several folks have large (physical) calendars on their actual desk. | T

Re: desktop calendar for linux

1998-09-22 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Matt Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I am looking for a type of "desktop calendar" application for Linux. If you don't fear "unreleased" software, gnomecal might be just what you need. It already has quite a lot of functionality, and works well for me. It's in the package gnome-utils. -- [EMAI

Re: HELP: Printing in Wordperfect8

1998-09-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Albert Hurd wrote: > I am having trouble printing in WP8. I have a Lexmark Optra R+ set to lp > using Printer Create/Edit , then Setup, then Destination. When I click > on Print, WP says the print job has been queued but the printer does not > get fed the file. When I try agai

Re: desktop calendar for linux

1998-09-22 Thread Ossama Othman
Try "ical." It is fairly useful. -Ossama

Re: Modem Speed

1998-09-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
In addition to line noise, bandwidth and/or phase shifts can sometimes limit the connection, particularly if there are analog-to-digital conversions taking place, which happens when the telco combines multiple lines onto a pair of copper wires. I can only get 24.0Kbps here :-( USR (now 3com) ha

Latest sendmail in slink causes "host unknown" errors.

1998-09-22 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Mail Delivery Subsystem wrote: The latest version of sendmail in slink, 8.9.1-9 causes all mail I try to send to fail with a weird message of "host unknown". I get a message back from mailer-daemon with lines like: 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... Host unknown (Name server: pegas

desktop calendar for linux

1998-09-22 Thread Matt Garman
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to uiuc.sw.linux as well. I am looking for a type of "desktop calendar" application for Linux. Several folks have large (physical) calendars on their actual desk. They are well-suited for writing down appointments, exam

kbackup

1998-09-22 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I have long been meaning to investigate kbackup, but it kept loosing to procrastination.I am used to restore/dump and different levels of dump; I do not see any level 2 or higher facilities in the documentation (incremental dumps are, well, tedious when restoring).

/usr/local

1998-09-22 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Hello, I would like to ask a question. I noticed that some important packages in Hamm (Latex and Emacs, for example) write in /usr/local during installation (at least they create directories there). Well, our local system administrator is having problem with this. It has decided to mount /usr/lo

Re: Multiple NE2000 Cards (Using NE Loadable Module)

1998-09-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 08:29:05AM +, James Brown Ender/GCC" wrote: > I'm trying to set up debian (running .30 kernel, and > libc5 NOT hamm!), with 2 NE2000 compatable network cards. > One is 0x340 Irq=5, and other is 0x360 irq 12. > I'm read the minihowto (Multiple Ethernet), and put that in

Re: DHCP on boot

1998-09-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 12:02:41PM -0400, Smith, Brian N. wrote: > I am referring to the client > What happens to the IP address one assigns during the kernal build? ??? You mean during debian installation? The one in /etc/init.d/network? Never mind, it gets overwritten anyway. Nils -- *

Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I mean in /etc/groups add a group "xdm". List all users that use xdm in it. > Then add this new group xdm to the floppy line. That wouldn't work. I think what he's looking for is a way to put people into the group when they're logged in at the cons

HELP: Printing in Wordperfect8

1998-09-22 Thread Albert Hurd
I am having trouble printing in WP8. I have a Lexmark Optra R+ set to lp using Printer Create/Edit , then Setup, then Destination. When I click on Print, WP says the print job has been queued but the printer does not get fed the file. When I try again, WP queues the file a second time. When I invok

[Joke] Y2K Bug...

1998-09-22 Thread Kevin Traas
Check out the following:   http://www.thesitefights.com/wepatrol/mil_bug.gif   Regards, Kevin "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armor tolead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignoresthe fact that it was he, who by peddling second-rate tec

Re: Microchannel architecture support

1998-09-22 Thread Bob Clark
I am running Debian on two Model 77's with MCA SCSI, IDE, NIC, and Xfree86 all working perfectly. I had to put 'append="fdomain=0x140,5,ibm"' in /etc/lilo.conf to boot from the SCSI disk. Although I now use a custom built kernel, my memory is that the distributed kernel worked as long as I specif

Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

1998-09-22 Thread shaleh
I mean in /etc/groups add a group "xdm". List all users that use xdm in it. Then add this new group xdm to the floppy line.

RE: DHCP on boot

1998-09-22 Thread Smith, Brian N.
I am referring to the client I have a cable modem, and have to run DHCP What happens to the IP address one assigns during the kernal build? Thanks Brian -Original Message- From: Giuseppe Sacco [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 8:22 A

modutils 2.1.121-4 uploaded

1998-09-22 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Apparently maintaining modutils means you have to run both development and stable kernels to test everything.. *sigh*. As some people deduced correctly the problem was with a change in the kernel includes: kerneld.h was removed from the kernel sources and is now directly in the modutils sources.

Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5? RESOLVED

1998-09-22 Thread Edward J Young
Thanx for the reply Problem is resolved. They show up in the device manager, and I know they work because of diagnostic utilities provided with the board. The problem was that non of the apps I used would see com5. Hyperterm still won't, but PCPlus did after some configuration of PCPlus. So pr

Modem Speed

1998-09-22 Thread Mike Patterson
Hi there. A friend of mine and I both recently got Zoom 56k Modems to allow my friend to hook into my system. Unfortunately, my friend can only connect at 26400 BPS, but we aren't sure why. # setserial -a /dev/ttyS2 /dev/ttyS2, Line 2, UART: 16550A, Port: 0x03e8, IRQ: 4 Baud_base: 115

Re: Motif on Hamm??

1998-09-22 Thread aqy6633
> What are people using for Motif on glibc systems? "Motif Complete!" from Metro Link Inc. (www.metrolink.com) is an EXCELLENT product. Great documentation, possibility for multi-version development environments, latest versions, customized winow manager, etc. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o

Re: Modem recommendation

1998-09-22 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello: My personal preference is Zyxel --> www.zyxel.com Peter -Original Message- From: G. Kapetanios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 9:46 AM Subject: Modem recommendation > >Hi all, > >I am switching from ethernet to modem (end o

Modem recommendation

1998-09-22 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I am switching from ethernet to modem (end of school days) and I would be grateful about suggestion for a good external modem that works well under Debian 2.0. TIA George --- George Kapetanios Churchill Coll

Remote printer and magicfiler

1998-09-22 Thread Robert Ramiega
Hi! I'm using remote printer (connected to Win95) through Samba is ther a way to use magicfilter in this situation? -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED]IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate IT Manager @ PDi | http://plukwa.pdi.net/| the power of Source

Re: Compiling the dpkg source package..

1998-09-22 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 06:31:12AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, any chance someone could tell me the correct incantations for > compiling dpkg from source? I've tried both the versions in hamm and > slink, but the INSTALL file is just a default gnu configure one, and > ./configure (it'

Re: printer advice

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Greg Norris) writes: > As near as I can tell it's not a winprinter, and it's print-language is > "Enhanced HP PCL 5" (which I believe is a superset of postscript, but > might well be mistaken on that point). No; it's a superset of HP's PCL (Printer Control Language) - a proprie

Re: this is probably too easy

1998-09-22 Thread Jeremy Freeman
you know you might be right :) i just phoned my isp and they confermed that i had to send a lowercase ppp to activate my ppp session lots of rolling eyes and gasping well i am going to go home tonight and check if it is the case i will be very angery and very happy because i have spent about 3 mon

Motif on Hamm??

1998-09-22 Thread Wayne Cuddy
What are people using for Motif on glibc systems? Wayne Cuddy CRB-WEB (C & H Consulting) http://www.crb-web.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Support for PC2TV on ATI Xpert@Play?

1998-09-22 Thread pedro . i . sanchez
Hello, I have an ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] video card that I've been unable to connect to my TV. Is this feature supported by the Xfree86 project? (I haven't found any specific reference to this feature in the docs). Thank you, -- Pedro I. Sanchez

Re: printer advice

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Stutz
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Greg Norris wrote: > Of course, any suggestions for alternate laser-printers which work well > under Linux would also be greatly appreciated. The HP LaserJet 4M+ is a good printer with a lot of features. With magicfilter installed, it works like a charm. It's an older model,

Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5?

1998-09-22 Thread tko
Edward J Young writes: [snip] > I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To > do this I need a com program that will work with com5 and above. I know > this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the > W/World, most programs don't go up there. I

More hard disk woes (repeat)

1998-09-22 Thread Kevin Scott
(resent as smail configuration was dodgy - apologies if it appears twice) I have a system with a WD 2GB IDE drive that has started acting flaky - when I tried to upgrade from bo I got a thoroughly corrupted filesystem (files and directories becoming block special files that could not be deleted, l

Compiling the dpkg source package..

1998-09-22 Thread ninjaz
Hi, any chance someone could tell me the correct incantations for compiling dpkg from source? I've tried both the versions in hamm and slink, but the INSTALL file is just a default gnu configure one, and ./configure (it's installation instructions) does nothing useful. I also tried autoconf and

RE: Bootloaders

1998-09-22 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi Ulysses, On 22-Sep-98 Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: > > I would like to know if there is a boot loader wich allows to "modify" > command line arguments at the prompt, this is what I want: > > nfsaddrs=147.156.10.20:147.156.17.31:147.156.1.11:255.255.128.0:eth0:none > ^ >

Re: this is probably too easy

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Martin
Are you certain that your chatscript is going far enough? That is, are you certain that after sending PPP your ISP doesn't ask for a username and password? (or do you perhaps need PPP in lowercase?) This error looks like your ISP isn't responding to pppd at all; this often happens when there's so

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Brian Almeida
On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 08:36:36AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > They are in the non-free and contrib sections. > Look for mpg123 and x11amp (for example). My MP3 player package, eMusic, is in main. Also, FreeAMP is in main. Brian -- Brian Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org/~bma/

Mapping memory

1998-09-22 Thread Ruben Usamentiaga Fernandez
I have a device witch maps memory in the mega 12, but i have physical memory at this location. Is there any way to solve it?

Re: non microsoft OS using windows drivers

1998-09-22 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Great! May by this will be a good solution for my Primax scanner, which is equipped only with M$-Win drivers... According to the license I may use them WITH THIS SCANNER, not with the particular OS. So may be the React OS will be the good solution for me... Wojtek Zabolotn

Re: Easy X exit manager....

1998-09-22 Thread Kevin Scott
It looks like time to post this again! (originally posted 7 Mar 1997). Still works for Debian 2.0 so far as I am aware. My scripts are based on those posted to this list by Philippe Troin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Monday 7th October 1996 (subject: " Re: Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work under X?"). I've mod

Re: Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

1998-09-22 Thread Michael B. Taylor
Sure. You can run pretty much anything in hamm that ran in bo. You just need the proper packages from old-libs. Since I am running Netscape 3.04, I have several packages from old-libs installed, but I would guess that libc5 is all that WP needs. Mike On Tue, Sep 22, 1998 at 01:49:02PM +0200,

More hard disk woes

1998-09-22 Thread Kevin Scott
I have a system with a WD 2GB IDE drive that has started acting flaky - when I tried to upgrade from bo I got a thoroughly corrupted filesystem (files and directories becoming block special files that could not be deleted, lots of filesystem errors), so I re-installed hamm from scratch with a re-fo

RE: Bootup error

1998-09-22 Thread Lewis, James M.
It looks like you might have an IDE interface enabled at int 14. Try moving the scsi to int 10. You also need to add append="mem=96M" to your lilo.conf file. How about sending a few more details about your system? jim -- From: Shane S.[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Oz Dror
What is the MIME type for mp3 what lines to add to .mailcap and .mime.types -Oz -- < NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] <> PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126 >>

X-Window is free again

1998-09-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- http://www.opengroup.org/x Oracle and Informix will be ported to Linux!! http://www.infoworld.com/cgi-bin/displayStory.pl?980717.whorlinux.htm - - "Computers are

Re: xdm + /etc/login.defs == ???

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > May be an easier way but how about making an XDM group? Put the > users in that. Then let group xdm be a member of floppy. ? What do you mean by XDM group? Mike Stone

Bootloaders

1998-09-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all again I would like to know if there is a boot loader wich allows to "modify" command line arguments at the prompt, this is what I want: This is one of the parameters I want to modify: nfsaddrs=147.156.10.20:147.156.17.31:147.156.1.11:255.255.128.0:eth0

Re: DHCP on boot

1998-09-22 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Are you talking about the client or the server? If you are talking about the client then you should have installed (automatically, from dhcpcd*.deb) a script in /etc/init.d/ that will start the client at boot time. But if you have a PCMCIA network card you should set DHCP="y" in /etc/pcmcia/networ

DHCP on boot

1998-09-22 Thread Smith, Brian N.
How does one get DHCP to initiate on bootup? All the Faqs seem to point to assigning the IP address when compiling and assume it will never change Thanks in advance Brian Smith

Re: Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

1998-09-22 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
> Has anybody tried to install Wordperfect on Debian 2.0. I know it is possible > to install it on 1.3 with libc5, but what about 2.0 (with libc6). I installed it, I have libc5-compat. All went fine. Bye, Giuseppe

Wordperfect + Debian 2.0

1998-09-22 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Hello ! Has anybody tried to install Wordperfect on Debian 2.0. I know it is possible to install it on 1.3 with libc5, but what about 2.0 (with libc6). Bostjan

Software RAID ? Was: [Re: backup using hard disk - any ideas]

1998-09-22 Thread Guido Bozzetto
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wrote: > > Why not isolate the data you want to backup in you file system so you > can setup raid on the second spindle. As an example: > /usr under Debian is fairly static, so don't include it in any raid > solution. /home on the other hand has lots of stu

this is probably too easy

1998-09-22 Thread Jeremy Freeman
i have been pulling my hair our over this one and it is something so simple you will laugh at me My PPP doesnt work now dont all roll your eyes let me explain my chat script works and my pppd works but when ever i try and open a link to my isp it all terminates and puts this error in my messages

Solutioned: NFSROOT problems

1998-09-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- It was a silly mistake Ulisses -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3a Charset: latin1 Comment: PGP public key avaliable at http://www.rediris.es/cert/keyserver iQB1AwUBNgeH6Q/N+5+NQ63pAQEiIAL/aFUaR+lpmXvb8i9Acek4iOb27n72gdGU RlpZZAJNopJBaLGcOj

Re: your mail

1998-09-22 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Dan Hrabarchuk wrote: : How do I change the distribution dselect downloads, and updates from? I want : to change it to unstable from stable. Have a look at the 'Access' option in dselect's main menu. When configuring the access method, you'll be asked which distribution it

NFSROOT problems

1998-09-22 Thread Ulisses Alonso Camaro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi all, I found an extrange behaviour in NFSROOT while not using BOOTP or RARP to provide client-ip, Instead I provide it in the command line Using the following kernel 2.0.35 configuration: CONFIG_NET=y CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y CONFIG_KERNEL_ELF=y CONFIG_M386=y CO

Multiple NE2000 Cards (Using NE Loadable Module)

1998-09-22 Thread James Brown \(Ender/GCC\)
Hi, I need HELP! I'm trying to set up debian (running .30 kernel, and libc5 NOT hamm!), with 2 NE2000 compatable network cards. One is 0x340 Irq=5, and other is 0x360 irq 12. I'm read the minihowto (Multiple Ethernet), and put that in my lilo config, but that seems to only apply with the BUILT

Re: ISDN-Setup

1998-09-22 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HM" == Helmut Metzdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> 1: use the old config files (pap-secrets, host.conf, hosts, HM> resolv.conf)by copying them to the appropriate places (/etc, HM> /etc/ppp). Yes. HM> 2: my old entries in isdnlog.conf are placed in callerid.conf. I think so. HM> 3:

X locks at -bpp 16

1998-09-22 Thread David Densmore
I have a Diamond SpeedStar Pro with CL-GD5426 chip and am running the svga X server. It works fine when I run it at -bpp 8, but at -bpp 16 it starts with a completely black background and the mouse freezes as soon as I place the xterm window on the screen (still using TWM). After a couple of minu

pcmcia scsi

1998-09-22 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
Hi all, I would like to buy a pcmcia scsi card for my laptop. Can someone suggest me a model that is know it works with Debian linux? Thanks a lot, Giuseppe Sacco

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-09-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
> >> 5. In dos you can have your current directory listed in the command > prompt > >> by doing prompt $p$g what is the equivalent for linux. > > >Add the following line to your .bash_profile: > >export PS1='\h:\w\$ ' > > sorry but I need to know where exactly .bash_profile is located and which

Syncing local SW depot to remote one

1998-09-22 Thread Joe Marchak
Hi, I have a disk with the debian distributions on it which I would like to automatically update from an ftp site. Is there a good way to do this? Thanks, -Joe. Joe Marchak [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Unidentified subject!

1998-09-22 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hello I need some clarifications on this issues from a previous mail >> 3. Currently my system does not see my network card. what programs to can I >> get to help me atomatically dectect it. Basically I have just the os with >> no packages. Can I do it manually ? How? >Did you set up network su

Re: Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

1998-09-22 Thread schulte
According to Daniel Mashao: > > I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot > install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since > wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help? Try: dpkg -i libwine*.deb wine*.deb (in _one comman

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
> > I can't seem to find an mp3 player package, everything in sound seems to > > be either mixers or wav players. Are there no takers or is it somehow > > illegal? > > For a text based mp3 player: mpg123 for debian is available. > > For an X based mp3 player: There are plenty, but x11amp is the

Re: Samba

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
> I fiddled around with the network and the message > about failing to bind went away. > Samba seems to work - I can use it as a print server. However, I > am puzzled about why don't see a smbd process running when > enter > ps -aux | grep smbd > > If smbd is called by nmbd, then do I

Re: losing 10s per day?

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 21 Sep 1998, Shane Hynes wrote: > Hi, > I've recently upgraded to Hamm and have started noticing > that my clock is consistently losing 9.5 sec per day. This wasn't > happening under the bo release. I update my clock with netdate > daily so the the error isn't cumulative & isn't really

Re: Connecting to NT share via samba

1998-09-22 Thread Michael Beattie
> BTW, I'm fairly new to internet/Linux-speak; what's "IIRC"? (Sorry for my > ignorance.) IIRC = If I Remember Correctly. IMHO = In My Humble Opinion HTH = Hope That Helps RTFM = Read The F** Manual FYI = For Your Information etc... Get the "jargon" package.. has heaps of these.

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-22 Thread Christophe Broult
aphro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > At 07:06 PM 9/21/98 +0200, you wrote: > > > >Hello, > > > >I've just added more RAM on my old Pentium 100. Now I have 128 Mb of > >RAM and as expected I'm experiencing a slowdown when a program is run > >above the 64 Mb limit. I think that running programs in th

Re: Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

1998-09-22 Thread A. M. Varon
On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: > I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot > install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since > wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help? Funny, wuz having that same problem/com

Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help?

Problems with system locking up, and blank or garbled vid screens.

1998-09-22 Thread Goofball
    I just recently upgraded to a brand new sparkly AMD K6-2 300mhz CPU. This involved replacing the MotherBoard and RAM also. After doing so, I booted up to find that my Debian Linux was displaying garbled video, or just a plain blank screen. After a liitle experimentation, I decided that

Re: Re Help

1998-09-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
> 2. I got the floppy mounted with the following command > mount -t auto /dev/fd0 /mnt one you do this you can only see the files > in the diskette that was mounted. Even when the diskette is changed. >my question is once you mount a floppy and use it do you have to unmount > it before yo

Re: One last chance

1998-09-22 Thread Jens Ritter
john mcpeek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi all, > O.K. no one can write a driver for a network adapter to use the LPT in > w95. (I know I can't) This is what I want to do. I want to plip some > files from my win95 box(bob) to my > Linux box(hal). I was reading "Another FAT 32 question" and i

Re: mp3 player

1998-09-22 Thread Jens Ritter
"D'jinnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can't seem to find an mp3 player package, everything in sound seems to > be either mixers or wav players. Are there no takers or is it somehow > illegal? They are in the non-free and contrib sections. Look for mpg123 and x11amp (for example). Jens --

Re: Hard drive woes...

1998-09-22 Thread Jens Ritter
Adam Lazur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fan on my power supply recently siezed up, I have since replaced > it, but it was not working for 2 days without me noticing. This > allowed my box to get HOT, and as a result my hard drive isn't too > happy anymore... In my MS-DOS partition (have to us

Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

1998-09-22 Thread Jens Ritter
Kenneth Scharf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You need to load the isofs module. Add the line 'isofs' (without > ''s) to /etc/modules. Make sure that usr/lib/modules/fs actually has > this module file in there! (It should, it comes with the default setup). > --

Re: using RAM above 64 Mb as a swap area

1998-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 01:12:15PM -0400, Shaleh wrote: > Christopher, I think the RAM/swap idea is a bad one. More productive > would be making your swap partition at least 128mb. Then you can swap > all of your memory. (Although why you are swapping on 128mb is beyond > me). Also the 2.1.x se

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 12:44:06PM -0500, Ryan King wrote: > Okay, I took a closer look at the partition table, and, you were right... > WinNT DID switch hda3 (my main) with hda2 (my swap). Odd, but perhaps they were in that order on the disk. > First of all, it said "VFS: Mounted root (ex2 files

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 11:42:43AM -0400, Frederic Breitwieser wrote: > same results. When NT's disk administrator trys to "play" with the hard > drive, irregardless of how "safe" is says it is, its writes something to > the boot sector to "identify" the drive to disk manager. It messes up the >

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-22 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 10:38:36AM -0500, Matt Garman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 21, 1998 at 09:43:13AM -0500, Ryan King wrote: > > I installed Debian Linux (and am very happy with it), and was working on > > getting Lilo to give me dual-boot options between it and my current > > WindowsNT O/S. > > An e

Re: Microsoft = Trustworthy? What was I thinking???

1998-09-22 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Ryan King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | When I say "didn't work" I mean I get the error: | Unable to find swap-space signature | ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 4096-charblocks implemented (1024) | ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 4096-charblocks implemented (1024) | ll_rw_block: device 03:02: only 40

Re: Shared Lib problem

1998-09-22 Thread technical
The saga continues, Switching to netscape to try and resolve this. > >Apperantly you didn't use the installer packages provided for these. I got that and used it to install netscape 4.03 (setenv TMPDIR ; dpkg -i netscape4_4.0-12.deb) followed dependencies etc etc No joy, it still SEGVs.

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