Configure XFree with ATXProII MotherBoard

1998-09-26 Thread paulo henrique castro
Hi, im having problems to configure xfree using the video card of my motherboard ATXProII. Anyone can help me?? Have any driver to install?? I look in the Debian site, but dont find. Tnx, Paulo Henrique Castro [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian User!

Re: PPP & ibm.net

1998-09-26 Thread john
Lazar Fleysher writes: > In general, ibm.net has all the scripts on their home page, but you > chould not need them... Nor should you use them, if they haven't changed them since I last looked. I tried to email them to suggest improvements, but they do not give an address that I can reach. -- Joh

Re: apt-get update doesn't

1998-09-26 Thread chandran
I have `deb file:/var/cache/apt/archives unstable main contrib non-free' in sources.list, and all the .deb files I wanted in /var/cache/apt/archives (not in directories under that for text, utils, etc; all in one dir). It works ok, and in that directory I also have the subdirs dists/unstable/main

Manpage

1998-09-26 Thread Bert Conliffe
Subject: Manpage Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 12:15:48 PDT From: "Gregory Walther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry to bother everyone with such a simple question. Or maybe it's not so simple, I don't know. I installed debian 2.0 and I cannot get the "man" pages to work. There is much I do

SMC network card

1998-09-26 Thread Doroszlai Attila
I recently bought an SMC EZCard 10 PCI network card, and then installed Debian. During the installation process I tried to configure the network. I tried several options of the list of network cards it provides, but it didn't accept anything. Does anybody know what to do? Attila

format of smbfs mounts in /etc/fstab?

1998-09-26 Thread servis
Hi all, Is it possible to specify smbfs mounts in /etc/fstab? The fstab and mount man pages hint at it being the same as an nfs mount but I couldn't get it to work. Thanks, -- Brian - "Never criticize anybody until you have wa

slink release date?

1998-09-26 Thread Vincent Murphy
How can one find out what the projected release date for slink is? regards, vinny

Re: PPP & ibm.net

1998-09-26 Thread Lazar Fleysher
I used to have ibm.net as my ISP use pppconfig to cofigure the system It will do everythin. Remember that eventhough your email is lanceh most probably your username is internet.usinet.lanceh or something crazy like this... In general, ibm.net has all the scripts on their home page, but

cheapbytes debian 2.0 installation problems

1998-09-26 Thread roadrun37
debian 2.0 baffles me. i have tried to install about four times and only on the last one did it work, but not really (you will see) i try to install everything - i put an X next to all the box for every option. Everything goes ok until i use dselect i do [a]ccess and it tells me to : g

apt-get update doesn't

1998-09-26 Thread Oliver Schoett
I have made a tiny local subtree of the slink distribution to play with mozilla. With dpkg-scanpackages, I have made my own Packages file and pointed apt to it. /etc/apt/sources.list has the single entry deb file:/home/local/mirror/debian slink main apt-get update seems to get the Packages fi

Re: PPP & ibm.net

1998-09-26 Thread john
Lance writes: > I have tried the HOWTO scripts but they don't seem to work either. The PPP-HOWTO can be charitably described as confusing. Log in as root, type pppconfig, and follow directions. > I am using Hamm but don't know how to tell which version of pppd I am > using. 'pppd -h' will tell

Re: Modprobe Question

1998-09-26 Thread Mike Acklin
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 01:08:51PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > Did you mean you *commented out* those lines or that you *uncommented* > those lines. To kill the error messages, these line need to be > *UNcommented out*. I just discovered, though, that for whatever reason, > the new locati

Re: some questions

1998-09-26 Thread Noel Yap
D'jinnie wrote: > > I don't seem to have too much luck with fine-tuning my Debian machine. I > can't find xv (which I really like), compile all of the pine 4.05 dist > (undefined references to crypt) and other little annoyances. Dselect just > swamps me with all the packages with no way of isolati

Re: Modprobe Question

1998-09-26 Thread Mike Acklin
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 11:51:08AM -0500, Greg Norris wrote: > I'm assuming that you mean net-pf-[3-5], rather than just pf-[3-5]. > Assuming that your system is otherwise working correctly, add the > following lines to /etc/conf.modules: > > alias net-pf-3 off > alias net-pf-4 off >

Re: PPP & ibm.net

1998-09-26 Thread Mike Acklin
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 02:20:01PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any have the scripts necessary o contect to ibm.net from ppp or wvdial? I > get a dial tone and the sound when one connects > to a server but I am always disconnected. I imagine that the server is not > receiving my login and

Re: Manpage

1998-09-26 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"Gregory Walther" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I installed debian 2.0 and I cannot get the "man" pages to work. Hm, can you be more specific? Have you installed the packages man-db and manpages? You can check with 'dpkg -s ' (sustitute man-db and manpages for ). | I asked this same question somewh

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Mike Acklin
Thanks for the pointers from both you and Ray. And to David Engle for the Debian Package. I have done some fiddling around and have a work around on your two points. On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:48:52AM -0700, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > There are two things I would like to add.(Hope you find it int

Re: Manpage

1998-09-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "GW" == Gregory Walther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: GW> I installed debian 2.0 and I cannot get the "man" pages to work. You have to install the man-db package. This packages provides the man command. Also install the manpages package. Ciao, Martin

Re: Manpage

1998-09-26 Thread Default Debian Reader
Did you install the man pages when you did your install? What is the error message that you are getting when you say " I cannont get the "man" pages to work" On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Gregory Walther wrote: > Sorry to bother everyone with such a simple question. Or maybe it's not > so simple, I do

PPP & ibm.net

1998-09-26 Thread lanceh
Any have the scripts necessary o contect to ibm.net from ppp or wvdial? I get a dial tone and the sound when one connects to a server but I am always disconnected. I imagine that the server is not receiving my login and password. I have tried the HOWTO scripts but they don't seem to work eithe

Re: some questions

1998-09-26 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-"D'jinnie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | I don't seem to have too much luck with fine-tuning my Debian machine. I | can't find xv (which I really like), compile all of the pine 4.05 dist xv is in non-free. | (undefined references to crypt) and other little annoyances. Dselect just Do you have libc6-

Install on an IBM Thinkpad 380Z

1998-09-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
Hi, I was fortunate enough to receive an IBM Thinkpad 380Z this week. The machine will dual boot NT and Debian. However, I had little luck with the boot disks. resc1440.bin would do the looping reboot. resc1440-fast.bin would freeze after decompressing the kernel. resc1440tecra.bin and resc14

Manpage

1998-09-26 Thread Gregory Walther
Sorry to bother everyone with such a simple question. Or maybe it's not so simple, I don't know. I installed debian 2.0 and I cannot get the "man" pages to work. There is much I don't know about the OS, (newbie). I need to learn how to setup and run the system. The manpages would be a very goo

Re: some questions

1998-09-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote: : I don't seem to have too much luck with fine-tuning my Debian machine. I : can't find xv (which I really like), compile all of the pine 4.05 dist ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/non-free/binary-i386/graphics/xv_3.10a-16.deb : (undefined references to cr

Re: Modem connection with a Pulse Dialing.

1998-09-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Bruno O. M. Simoes wrote: > Hi all, > I've just configurated my PPP connection and the chatscript is working > fine. But my phone line is PULSE instead of tone, and it's trying to > dial by tone. > Do you know how can i change it? In /etc/chatscripts/provider, change "ATDT" t

some questions

1998-09-26 Thread D'jinnie
I don't seem to have too much luck with fine-tuning my Debian machine. I can't find xv (which I really like), compile all of the pine 4.05 dist (undefined references to crypt) and other little annoyances. Dselect just swamps me with all the packages with no way of isolating just the ones I want...B

Modem connection with a Pulse Dialing.

1998-09-26 Thread Bruno O. M. Simoes
Hi all, I've just configurated my PPP connection and the chatscript is working fine. But my phone line is PULSE instead of tone, and it's trying to dial by tone. Do you know how can i change it? Regards Bruno

Re: pine 4.05 install

1998-09-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, dsb3 wrote: > On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: > > >On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, dsb3 wrote: > > > >> from the pine CPYRIGHT file (actually looking at v3.96 which I have > >> installed) > >> > >> [snip] > > > >But this explains it: > > > >Although the above trademark and copy

Re: Modprobe Question

1998-09-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mike Acklin wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 11:36:19AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > About the modprobe errors: > > > > This doesn't have anything to do with xringd. Its refering to various > > network protocols built as modules when you compiled your kernel. In > > /etc/conf.m

Re: Modprobe Question

1998-09-26 Thread Greg Norris
I'm assuming that you mean net-pf-[3-5], rather than just pf-[3-5]. Assuming that your system is otherwise working correctly, add the following lines to /etc/conf.modules: alias net-pf-3 off alias net-pf-4 off alias net-pf-5 off What's happening, is that the system is seeing pack

Restricting mail use: local/internet

1998-09-26 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm running Exim as my MTA and I've got a situation where I would like to restrict e-mail usage for some users to the local machine, but still allow other users to have full internet e-mail capabilities. These users are all accessing the Linux box from Win95 machines via Samba. Could anyone give

Re: Help with ssh

1998-09-26 Thread Greg Norris
First, you want to use ssh-keygen to create a public/private keyset for root, as well as whichever user(s) you want to be able to become root via ssh (assuming that you haven't already done this). Second, create the file "authorized_keys" in root's ~/.ssh directory. You want this file to contain

Can we change the font used by Ghostscript?

1998-09-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
Changing the printer default font doesn't work when you print via magicfilter, presumably because it calls ghostscript (I have a non-Postscript laser printer). Question: is there any way to change the default font which is used? -- Anthony Campbell - running Linux Debian 2.0 [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to set the svga driver as default for X (was: X on a laptop)

1998-09-26 Thread Anatol Quabach
On 26.09.1998, at 11:06, Ed Cogburn wrote: > I'm not sure I understand the problem, so take this with a grain of >salt. I don't think the SVGA server would use the vga16 section in >XF86Config (I could be wrong here). Look at the first line in >/etc/X11/Xserver; are you running the SVGA s

Re: pine 4.05 install

1998-09-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "d" == dsb3 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: d> maybe this is too pedantic, but are you saying: d> 1) it can be distributed in binary form using unpatched sources ONLY, or This one is true. Ciao, Martin

Re: Modprobe Question

1998-09-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998 17:02:38 -0500, Mike Acklin wrote: >Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-4 >Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-3 >Sep 24 16:49:02 debian modprobe: can't locate module pf-5 Those are harmless warning caused by the kerneld(?) trying to loa

Re: Modprobe Question

1998-09-26 Thread Mike Acklin
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 11:36:19AM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > About the modprobe errors: > > This doesn't have anything to do with xringd. Its refering to various > network protocols built as modules when you compiled your kernel. In > /etc/conf.modules or the newer location /etc/

Re: printer advice

1998-09-26 Thread Greg Norris
Thanx to everyone who passed along their comments and suggestions regarding my query on the HP LaserJer 6Lse printer. Based upon your recommendations, I went ahead and purchased it (though I did follow up on sume suggested alternatives, as well). I set it up yesterday, using lprng and magicfilter

Re: modutils --- why m68k files ?

1998-09-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Alan Eugene Davis wrote: : I have been getting streams of messages as follows: : : Sep 26 18:40:01 mwariker modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 : Sep 26 18:40:12 mwariker last message repeated 38 times Add the following line to /etc/conf.modules or the newer

Re: Resc1440 Floppy locks up during install of Debian 2.0

1998-09-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Noel Yap wrote: : Dave White wrote: : > The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following: : > : > Loading root.bin : > Loading linux . : > < here is where it locks up : > : > -I've formatted three different floppies : > -downloaded resc1440.b

Re: Modprobe Question

1998-09-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mike Acklin wrote: > > Hello Again, > > Well still working on the xringd program but started watching the > syslog file and found something I had not seen before. > > I was working with diald yesterday and finally got it working just > fine. But I was debugging it with /var/log/p

Re: simple password

1998-09-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: [ snip ] : I have now my password as `password123`. I still want to put it as `password`.. I really hope this machine isn't connected to the Internet :) Log in as root. Type: echo 'filsin:password' | chpasswd All done. -- Nathan Norm

Re: cannot find libXpm.so.4 when running netscape

1998-09-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Torsten Hilbrich wrote: > > On: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 01:05:46 +1000 (EST) Shao Ying Zhang writes: > > > > Hi debies, > > I just moved from redhat to debian. Don't know much about deb > > package at all. > > > > Ok, I tried to run netscape 3.0 and got the error libXpm.so.4, so > > what pkg

Re: simple password

1998-09-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Phillip Neumann wrote: > > Jason Herring Dale Davis wrote: > > > I believe that if you just enter your simple password the program will > > say that it is too simple if you really want to use that password then > > just enter it in again this time it should go on and ask you to reenter > > the p

Re: Compiling apache

1998-09-26 Thread dsb3
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, LUK ShunTim wrote: >Hi, > >I have to add some database support so I get the source tar ball from >apache and re-compile it. With some minor problems, I got it worked. I >found the that the size of the binary file was much larger that the >original one in the distribution. I su

Re: pine 4.05 install

1998-09-26 Thread dsb3
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: >On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, dsb3 wrote: > >> from the pine CPYRIGHT file (actually looking at v3.96 which I have >> installed) >> >> [snip] > >But this explains it: > >Although the above trademark and copyright restrictions do not convey >the right to redistribut

Re: How to set the svga driver as default for X (was: X on a laptop)

1998-09-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alexander Kuba wrote: > > On 25.09.1998, at 21:18, D'jinnie wrote: > > >Anatol, check out ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF. (that is if you have > >NeoMagic card as that is the impression that I got). There is even a > >sample usable XF86Config file... > > No, it's a Trident Cyber 9385. But when I c

Re: Resc1440 Floppy locks up during install of Debian 2.0

1998-09-26 Thread Dave White
Noel Yap wrote: > > Dave White wrote: > > The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following: > > > > Loading root.bin > > Loading linux . > > < here is where it locks up > > > > -I've formatted three different floppies > > -downloaded resc1440.bin from two different sites >

Re: Problem apache - postgres

1998-09-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 11:39:15AM +0200, Allan Jacobsen wrote: > Apache runs as user www-data, so to be able to > access postgresql I wanted to create a postgres > user "www-data", but createuser says "illegal > character in user name". > Does anyone know an easy way around this ? This is reporte

Re: vnc-3.3.2r2_x86_linux_2.0.tgz under debian hamm

1998-09-26 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Sep 24, 1998 at 09:40:46PM +0200, Marco Machmer wrote: > Reading symbols from /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6... > (no debugging symbols found)...done. > Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.5...(no debugging symbols > found)...done. > Reading symbols from /lib/libc.so.6...(no debugging symbols > f

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Mike Acklin
On Fri, Sep 25, 1998 at 09:34:31AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: > > you just described "xringd". :-> I've heard of it but haven't installed > it, so I'm not sure if there's a .deb file for it. Even if you have to go > find it, it's exactly what you need. > > Sincerely, > > Ray Ingles

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-" Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | | On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Mike Acklin wrote: | | > Hello Everyone, | > | > I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a | > way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it | > will monitor the port and if

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Lazar Fleysher wrote: > > There are two things I would like to add.(Hope you find it interesting) > > 1. When I installed xringd, it could not find the modem and -m option did > not work.So I recompiled xringd and explicitly defined modem device as > /dev/ttyS1 > > 2. When

Re: Quick Question

1998-09-26 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Mike Acklin wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have a quick question about linux/debian. Does anyone know of a > way or a program that if you call your Modem (With it being offline), it > will monitor the port and if it sees "RING", the system will automagically > start pon

Authentication of users in Linux using Novell Netware

1998-09-26 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I'm faced with a problem. I'm installing Linux at a Pos-Graduate Economy lab at Brazil and the users use Novell to login into Windows95. I'm trying to find something similar in Linux. That is I don't have to create 60 new accounts to Linux. The best would be the

Re: Samba

1998-09-26 Thread peloy
Michael Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is is running from inetd.conf? If so, then it will not show unless someone > is browsing your box on the network. Otherwise... Pass. This is absolutely correct. > I do not see it either.. at startup: > > Warning: Samba is not running as daemons. Daem

Problem apache - postgres

1998-09-26 Thread Allan Jacobsen
Hi Apache runs as user www-data, so to be able to access postgresql I wanted to create a postgres user "www-data", but createuser says "illegal character in user name". Does anyone know an easy way around this ? Best regards Allan Jacobsen

modutils --- why m68k files ?

1998-09-26 Thread Alan Eugene Davis
I have been getting streams of messages as follows: Sep 26 18:40:01 mwariker modprobe: can't locate module char-major-14 Sep 26 18:40:12 mwariker last message repeated 38 times The only mention of char-major-14 I have found with grep is in /etc/modutils/conf.m68k.atari I cannot find any 6

Re: "Can't load default font 'fixed'"

1998-09-26 Thread Curt Daugaard
Did you install the xfstt true-type font server? I did, and I get this same message when trying to start X. I think the install script has a glitch or something. Anyway, after booting up you can start the font server manually from the init.d directory. Then you should be able to startx. Maybe t

Compiling apache

1998-09-26 Thread LUK ShunTim
Hi, I have to add some database support so I get the source tar ball from apache and re-compile it. With some minor problems, I got it worked. I found the that the size of the binary file was much larger that the original one in the distribution. I suspect that some modules are dynamically linked

Re: X-Win S3 setting error

1998-09-26 Thread Anatol Quabach
On 26.09.1998, at 14:37, Michael Beattie wrote: >Edit /etc/X11/Xserver, and set the first line to the location of XF86_S3, >like so: > >/usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3 > >This should have been done by the xserver-s3 package's install script, but >you may have installed the vga16 one afterwards. Another way

How to set the svga driver as default for X (was: X on a laptop)

1998-09-26 Thread Alexander Kuba
On 25.09.1998, at 21:18, D'jinnie wrote: >Anatol, check out ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/XBF. (that is if you have >NeoMagic card as that is the impression that I got). There is even a >sample usable XF86Config file... No, it's a Trident Cyber 9385. But when I configured the SVGA server, I choose it

RE: No menu in wmaker

1998-09-26 Thread Cristov Russell
I fixed it! Apparently emacs19 was causing problems with menu. I discovered this by using update-menus at which point I got an error about emacs19. So I reinstalled hamm again without any emacs and WindowMaker has the expected menus. Now I have a GUI I can comfortably move around in and learn a

Re: pine 4.05 install

1998-09-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, dsb3 wrote: > > from the pine CPYRIGHT file (actually looking at v3.96 which I have > installed) > > [snip] > Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its > documentation for any purpose and without fee to the University of > Washington is hereby gra

manpath configuration

1998-09-26 Thread David Karlin
Whenever I run "man", I get the following msg: man: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config It would be easy enough to create the file, but what is the correct path for a "stock" hamm system? TIA, David

Re: pine 4.05 install

1998-09-26 Thread dsb3
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, D'jinnie wrote: >I've been trying to compile pine 4.05 (with the sl5 option, for shadowed >pw) and it barfs on undefined references to crypt and can't find >ltermcap...any ideas? P.S. What is it about the license that doesn't allow >Debian to make a package out of it? They hav

partition magic 4.0

1998-09-26 Thread Lawrence
I just found that Powerquest released their partition magic 4.0 and it now supports the Linux ext2 filesystem. It can resizes Linux partitions now:) Lawrence Chim

Re: Resc1440 Floppy locks up during install of Debian 2.0

1998-09-26 Thread Noel Yap
Dave White wrote: > The Rescue/boot floppy locks up after the following: > > Loading root.bin > Loading linux . > < here is where it locks up > > -I've formatted three different floppies > -downloaded resc1440.bin from two different sites > -tried "linux floppy=thinkpad" with

Re: X-Win S3 setting error

1998-09-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 26 Sep 1998, Chan Min Wai wrote: > I have a S3 Trio V64+ with 2Mb ram but I can't config my display, it > always use XF86_vga16 and don't use the XF86_S3 so I uninstall the > XF86_vga16 then my XF86Setup is missing... > Then I use the xf86config to config but it also want the XF86_

Re: Missing KDE images?

1998-09-26 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Eric Jensen wrote: > I have been trying to figure this out for a long time. Most of the kde > programs that I have installed have an inability to disply the buttons on > their toolbar properly. This happens with the kde file browser and > other things. Other kde programs, h

getting a PCI modem to work in Debian 2.0?

1998-09-26 Thread Preston Landers
Howdy folks, My roommate is trying to set up Debian 2.0 on his new AMD K6-2 system and he's run into kind of a stumbling block that I am at a loss on. We got his Soundblaster set up fine, which is an ISA card. However, we can't figure out how to get the modem set up. It is a "plug-n-pray" Creat

RE: X on a laptop

1998-09-26 Thread D'jinnie
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Anatol Quabach wrote: :OK, up and running. 800x600 works, 640x480 is completely messed up :(tiled screen). I simply removed that resolution from the XF86Config :file. : :Unfortunately, X uses the "vga16" driver, not "svga" or "accel". :Therefore I get a color depth of 4bit, th

pine 4.05 install

1998-09-26 Thread D'jinnie
I've been trying to compile pine 4.05 (with the sl5 option, for shadowed pw) and it barfs on undefined references to crypt and can't find ltermcap...any ideas? P.S. What is it about the license that doesn't allow Debian to make a package out of it? They have compiled binaries on their site... ---

RE: X on a laptop

1998-09-26 Thread Anatol Quabach
OK, up and running. 800x600 works, 640x480 is completely messed up (tiled screen). I simply removed that resolution from the XF86Config file. Unfortunately, X uses the "vga16" driver, not "svga" or "accel". Therefore I get a color depth of 4bit, though the card could handle 16 or 24bit at 800x600.

Re: X locks at -bpp 16

1998-09-26 Thread John Forest
David Densmore wrote: > John Forest wrote: > > >David Densmore wrote: > > > >>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 freez

Re: About mount FAT32

1998-09-26 Thread Mike Acklin
On Sat, Sep 26, 1998 at 08:01:22PM +0800, Chan Min Wai wrote: > Hi, > I had met problem on mounting a Fat32 drive (Win98), I don't know > Which kind of fat should I use in the mount command. > > For normal Fat16, We use:mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /hd1 >

mdutils

1998-09-26 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I have created a linear drive on my system out of three partitions. I have done all the necessary steps for it to work (mdcreate basically and then format...) The problem I get is that while on the bootup process the device get configured but it doesn't run. It tells me this:

X-Win S3 setting error

1998-09-26 Thread Chan Min Wai
I have a S3 Trio V64+ with 2Mb ram but I can't config my display, it always use XF86_vga16 and don't use the XF86_S3 so I uninstall the XF86_vga16 then my XF86Setup is missing... Then I use the xf86config to config but it also want the XF86_vga16 driver so I copy the XF86_S3 to be the XF86_

About mount FAT32

1998-09-26 Thread Chan Min Wai
Hi, I had met problem on mounting a Fat32 drive (Win98), I don't know Which kind of fat should I use in the mount command. For normal Fat16, We use:mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /hd1 ^ but for Fat 32 What Should we use in state of vfat

Re: How to "add" contrib-CD so that dselect knows about it?

1998-09-26 Thread Chan Min Wai
I have this problem last time. but now I sloved it. put in the binary CD the change the Access to any /binary-i386 then update it, after that install any software you want.. Then put in the Contrib CD and change the access to any /binary-i386 (you have to check the directory mode) then update it.

Re: Voice Chatscript

1998-09-26 Thread Chan Min Wai
How to add or reconfig the string or other, just likeit was in the first install. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > David Stern writes: > > I tried making my modem init string AT&C0DT, but my modem still hangs up > > after about 10 s. > > That won't help. Try ATS7=255. That will tell the modem to wai

Re: Problems mounting CD.

1998-09-26 Thread Pere Camps
Karsten, > hda: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, 2503MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=635/128/63, DMA > hdb: FUJITSU MPA3026ATU, 2503MB w/0kB Cache, CHS=635/128/63, DMA > hdc: Pioneer CD-ROM ATAPI Model DR-A24X 0101, ATAPI CDROM drive append="hdc=cdrom" in lilo.conf Salutacions, Pere __oUl