Programaci^3n de nuevos dispositivos (fwd)

1998-10-09 Thread treacy
This time the mail I'm forwarding does not appear to be spam. If only I'd paid more attention in Spanish class those many years ago... Anyway, could someone on this list help him out? Jay Treacy - Forwarded message from Enrique Marcote Peña - From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 8 23:07:34

Re: Programaci^3n de nuevos dispositivos (fwd)

1998-10-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Somos dos estudiantes y amantes de Linux que tenemos en mente desarrollar una aplicaci_n para Quickcams y nos encontramos con el problema de que no sabemos donde obtener la documentaci_n necesaria para seguir adelante. En el caso de tratar con la UART, es f_cil encontrar libros donde digan

Re: Perfiles de instalación

1998-10-09 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 03:45:16PM +0200, Petrus wrote: Una vez que se ha instalado la Debian 2.0 con la elección de un perfil determinado, ¿cómo se puede volver a instalar mediante el mismo sistema para el caso de que se desee cambiar de perfil o simplemente repetir la misma instalación? No

magicfilterconfig

1998-10-09 Thread Miguel Camstra
En el magicfilterconfig tras escribir los datos de la impresora y el filtro adecuado ¿cómo se sale para que no siga pidiendo los datos de más impresoras?.

Re: magicfilterconfig

1998-10-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Miguel Camstra wrote: En el magicfilterconfig tras escribir los datos de la impresora y el filtro adecuado ¿cómo se sale para que no siga pidiendo los datos de más impresoras?. `done' when done que significa: escriba `done' cuando haya terminado. [ Sí, algún día esto

Re: Debianizar software

1998-10-09 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Si, se trata del paquete debhelper. Y el conjunto de utilidades que tiene son útiles para hacer tareas tediosas, que de otra forma habría que hacer a mano. Por ejemplo, si quiero en mi paquete decir que ciertos programas no están documentados en una página de manual pongo en debian/rules

xrdb no carga las opciones por defecto de usuario

1998-10-09 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Si alguien se acuerda, hace un tiempo escribi con un problema que tenia al configurar xterm. Pues bueno, el problema ya lo he localizado y no tiene nada que ver con xterm. es xrdb y en concreto xrdb cuando lo llama xsession -- trozo de codigo de /etc/X11/Xsession if grep -q ^allow-user-resources

Bases de datos

1998-10-09 Thread Horacio Menezo Ganau
echo Reply-To: Horacio [EMAIL PROTECTED]X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL39 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UNKNOWN-8BIT Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Length: 1264 Hola, necesito montar una base de datos con Debian2.0. Lo que necesitar=EDa en

Re: problemas con infovia en Debian2

1998-10-09 Thread Ignacio Arenaza
amiguel == A de Miguel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: amiguel Resulta que como resultado de la actualización a debian2 amiguel borré mi /etc/ppp y ahora al intentar rehacerlo segun la amiguel spanish infobia How-to me al procesar mi /etc/ppp/options amiguel me da un error raro:

Apt detrás de un firewall, por ftp

1998-10-09 Thread Tomás Bautista
Hola! Ya sé que hace tiempo hice esta pregunta. Pero no sé qué habré hecho estos días que de repente me ha dejado de funcionar. Y sigo teniendo instalado el libnet-perl y el libmd5-perl. Y también he ejecutado el libnet-perl-config (que el del CDROM de Linux Actual lo ejecuta directamente al

Re: IP Masq and debian

1998-10-09 Thread Dimitri P.
Hi there... I stumbled on the same problem and I am now running it with the scipt in /etc/rc.boot/ipmasq disabled, and a startup file similar to what you are using. It seems to be the simplest way to run IP masq. I ahaven't tried deciphering the script that uses /etc/ipmasq.conf to see what it

RE: X Windows: Installation questions

1998-10-09 Thread Christian Lavoie
My relevant system specs are: Logitech FirstMouse 3buttons Logitech mice rule ;) There is something else? =) S3 ViRGE 325 PCI video card Canopus Pure3D 3Dfx accelerator 3D card Azura JEN0B00 monitor Here are my questions: 1) Running xf86config, How can I find what to

Sound Card

1998-10-09 Thread Collin Rose
How do I configure my sound card in linux? io=220 i=5

Simple Installation?

1998-10-09 Thread Adrian Gudas
I'm on a conservative disk space budget, and I want to know which packages I have to get to get the base XFree86 system running (after a floppy installation of Debian). Only the ones I have to get. I'll use the standard SVGA server. Adrian

Re: slink: pppd libcrack problem with last night's download?

1998-10-09 Thread john
Art Lemasters writes: /usr/sbin/pppd: error in loading shared libraries libcrack.so.2 cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory PAM is hosed. Downgrade ppp, if possible. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do

Netware server to Linux server

1998-10-09 Thread Matt Leese
This is semi-off topic. I help administer a LAN at my school that is currently running on an underpowered Netware 3.12 server. We plan to replace the server with an extra PII 266 we have laying around. I personally would prefere to install Linux on the server instead of Netware (I have more

Re: IP Masq and debian

1998-10-09 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I think for the second line you don't need to specify the -D, if you only specify -S x.x.x.x/x then -D defaults to anywhere. ipfwadm -F -p deny ipfwadm -F -a m -S 192.168.1.0/2 I am not using dynamic addressing but I did write some custom scripts that setup my ipmasq system, as the ones

goldstar cdrom driver

1998-10-09 Thread Steve Ball
Could someone please point me to where to get the driver for a Goldstar CDROM Model CRD8160B Rom ver. 1.04D Brief directions on install would be appreciated. I have BO ver OS installed on HDD via floppy method; rest of distribution on CD ROM--thus the driver problem. Thanks! Steve Ball

Linux install error

1998-10-09 Thread Shane S.
    I am trying to install debian linux on this laptop i have.   When I bootup with boot disk, i get the following error.   Parition check: hda: attemtp to access beyond end of device 03:01: rw=0, want=2, limit=0 EXT2-fs: unable to read superblock attempt to access

Re: network

1998-10-09 Thread Zheng Wang
Hi, David, Thanks for you mail. I just got my CD. Actually it is 2.0.34. But I don't know why it works. In the network configure step, the Vortex did not stack as it used to be. But I have further more question for you or other users that can help me. 1. When I tried to install other packages

Unidentified subject!

1998-10-09 Thread Nebu John Mathai
Hello, I was wondering whether anyone here uses openlook and whether they have ported the many interesting xview/openlook applications that exist (or know of Debian compatible ports). I've found a site at http://step.polymtl.ca/~coyote/xview_main.html which has libc5 binaries but some of them

XFree86 3.3.1

1998-10-09 Thread Justin Liu
Hi - I was wondering where I can find a Debian package (if it exists) for XFree86 version 3.3.1. Apparently there is a bug with 3.3.2 that won't work with my display. Or do I just download the appropriate Xserver from XFree86.org? I'm not on the list, so email is appreciated. Thanks, -

X and keymaps

1998-10-09 Thread Gossamer
I've got my system set up to use a personalized keymap via 'loadkeys' but when I start up X, inside X only recognizes the qwerty keys. I thought the latest X installations generally pulled the keymaps directly from whatever loadkeys had put there - is there a specific reason Debian's different?

Suck/get-news problem

1998-10-09 Thread Gossamer
My Debian install's -almost- making sense now! Just a few tiny things ... when I run get-news to download Usenet via suck, I get this: [snip] Total articles to download: 929 1836135 Bytes received in 62 mins 54.05 secs, BPS = 486.5 Closed connection to news.mel.aone.net.au Building INN Batch

Re: goldstar cdrom driver

1998-10-09 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:47:19PM -0700, Steve Ball wrote: Could someone please point me to where to get the driver for a Goldstar CDROM Model CRD8160B Rom ver. 1.04D This seems to be an IDE cdrom, so the driver should be already in the kernel. All you have to do is mount it. I.E.

lowmem installation trouble

1998-10-09 Thread Larry Fletcher
On Oct 06 1998, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install Debian on my 386 w/ 4Megs of RAM and hercules video. Using the lowmem.bin image, here is what happens... I've been trying the same thing. So far I have been able to install Debian Hamm from 1.44 disks using the Installing

Perl/CPAN.pm/Zlib

1998-10-09 Thread Gossamer
This new Debian install's broken something ... when I run the CPAN shell I get this: cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.40) ReadLine support enabled cpan i /imap/ Going to read /usr/local/src/CPAN/sources/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz perl: error in loading shared libraries

Re: ATI Xpert98 x setup

1998-10-09 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi M.C. Vernon; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: Dear all, I'm trying to get this setup properly, with only limited success ATM. Here is the devices section: Section Device Identifier Primary Card VendorName Unknown BoardName ATI Pro Turbo+PC2TV, 3D

upgrade to hamm/ emacs and awk problems

1998-10-09 Thread CHUCK
Hi I have just run autoup and dselect and my 1.1/1.3 seems to be 2.0 but not perfect. dselect reported auctex and hyperlatex not installed. emacs reports cannot open tex-site when it begins, and cannot find /usr/local/../site-lisp. emacs is 19.34. Something made me think of looking at

Re: slink: ppp pamlibs hosed

1998-10-09 Thread Art Lemasters
Thanks, John. Sorry I couldn't quote the earlier messages (other partition, OS), but I downloaded ppp and pam files from /hamm to downgrade for now, and that worked. ...good thing, too, my Win OS gets rebooted every time it's online...takes too long to get anything done with it. Is

Re: Help need on man pages

1998-10-09 Thread LUK ShunTim
H C Pumphrey wrote: On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: Plase could you give the the files I have to download to be able to install linux man pages so I can get help by typing say man rm or man cp You need the manpages package (manpages_1.19-1.deb) , the man-db

Re: IP Masq and debian

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Lee Bradshaw wrote: Hi, How am I supposed to use the ipmasq package with ppp? Is it possible? I tried using 0.0.0.0 as the external ip address, but I received a few error messages when booting and I couldn't telnet to the machine anymore. I couldn't find any documentation in /usr/doc/ipmasq

Re: completely strange system time....

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote: Bruno Boettcher wrote: i recently installed a debian system, and since then have a completely strange system time: my clock reports: 09:13:43 yoda:~$ date Thu Oct 8 09:14:23 MST 1998 and a correctly working host: 16:17:21 erm6:~$ date Thu Oct 8

I need a the package

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Stone
hi, all I just want to install linux, I cannot find the whole package of debian to download,because I am under the proxy, i have no authority to access the ftp site, I need a package that all files are bulided in, so I can use some other tools to download it. I will appreciate for your guide.

Re: Sound Card

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Collin Rose wrote: How do I configure my sound card in linux? io=220 i=5 You have to recompile your kernel, and enable sound support, either as a module, or built-in. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply

How to mount UFS file systems?

1998-10-09 Thread Sanzo Miyazawa
Could you please teach me how to mount SUN UFS file systems in linux? (How can I specify a partition of ufs disk in the mount command?) Sanzo Miyazawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- System Information Debian Release: 2.0 Kernel Version: Linux smp6m

telnet localhost

1998-10-09 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi, After uprgating to hamm it is immposiible to telnet,talk to local host. All services are allowed via hosts.allow/hosts.deny but nevetheless I am getting: Trying 127.0.0.1... telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused What is wrong? As I remeber it was ok on bo :( TIA,

Re: How to mount UFS file systems?

1998-10-09 Thread Sanzo Miyazawa
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 9 14:15:50 1998 If the UFS drive is, for example, SCSI target 3, it looks from the docs like you would use the following: mount /dev/sda3 /mount-dir -t ufs Note that ufs is READ ONLY! Thank you very much for a quick reply. I get the following error message.

Re: telnet localhost

1998-10-09 Thread Default Debian Reader
Have you tried to telnet to your machine from a remote machine? If not check inetd.conf and make sure telnetd is running there. If it isn't put it in and then kill -HUP inetd's pid. If you have a default host.allow it should allow anyone so that is the problem and default hosts.deny is no

.xsession and xdm

1998-10-09 Thread Chris Hoover
I have linked my working .xinitrc file to .xsession so that I could run xdm. However, every time I log in, xdm does not seem to execute the .xsession file as stated in the man pages. Could someone tell me what is going on, and how to fix it? Thanks, chris

Quake2/3dfx

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Beattie
After just acquiring a 3dfx card from a friend, Using Quake2 is much more attractive.. :) My problem is the mouse. Since Quake2 does not use svgalib in 3dfx mode, I have no mouse. This upsets me.. Who else uses 3dfx with Quake2, and if so, Can you use your mouse? Do you? How can I?

Re: How to mount UFS file systems?

1998-10-09 Thread Sanzo Miyazawa
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri Oct 9 14:45:03 1998 But it is INCORRECT! mount /dev/sddslice /mount-dir -t ufs sda = target 0 sdb =target 1 sdc =target 2 sdd =target 3 sdd0 = target 3 slice 0 sdd1 = target 3 slice 1 etc The following is the output from dmesg, when I typed # mount

Re: rawrite2 NT

1998-10-09 Thread Damon Muller
On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 09:52:57 -0400 Greg Vence [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It appears that rawrite2 doesn't work with NT. Is there one that does? I didn't see it going 0-1-0-1-... on side. Is there something I'm missing? I'm pretty sure I have used it on NT machines, but it's possibly that it

LEased line problems again

1998-10-09 Thread fantomas
Hello, some time ago I asked fore help about leased line; I got some info, got it nearly to work - there's still a problem somewhere I turned on debug and kdebug but i still don't understand it :-S There's cisco on the other side. Oct 9 00:54:47 home pppd[842]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0

Re: Suck/get-news problem

1998-10-09 Thread W. Paul Mills
X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gossamer) Newsgroups: lists.debian Date: 9 Oct 1998 01:41:55 GMT Organization: None Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Server-Date: 9 Oct 1998 01:41:55 GMT User-Agent: slrn/0.9.5.3 (UNIX) Resent-From:

Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-09 Thread Bostjan JERKO
libXpm.so.4 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400eb000) I seem to be missing this library. Can anybody tell me in which package it is included. Bostjan

Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 09:12:11AM +0200, Bostjan JERKO wrote: libXpm.so.4 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400eb000) I seem to be missing this library. Can anybody tell me in which package it is included. The libc5 xpm libraries are in

Re: completely strange system time....

1998-10-09 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Your time zone is wrong. Run tzconfig (as root) on the misbehaveing host ok set it to Europe/Paris (i am in Strasbourg...) Also, check your logfiles. Xntpd cannot make large adjustments and refuses to i stop/started the daemon, and it reports no failures: Oct 9 11:46:50 yoda xntpd[25663]:

Re: .xsession and xdm

1998-10-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I have linked my working .xinitrc file to .xsession so that I could run xdm. However, every time I log in, xdm does not seem to execute the .xsession file as stated in the man pages. Could someone tell me what is going on, and how to fix it? Things to check: - is your .xinitrc executable

running X windows

1998-10-09 Thread Bostjan JERKO
Are you sure an X server isn't already running ? What does 'ps aux' say ? I tried 'ps aux', here is result: USER PID %CPU %MEM SIZE RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND daemon 121 0.0 0.5 796 348 ? S16:45 0:00 /sbin/portmap daemon 170 0.0 0.7 852 452 ? S

Assigning IP addresses

1998-10-09 Thread Vincent Murphy
I want to have a bunch of Debian Hamm machines get their IP addresses at boot time based on their ethernet address. These IP addresses are permanent for every machine i.e. each machine will be assigned the same IP address every time it boots. I would like to use another Debian Hamm machine to

Re: Simple Installation?

1998-10-09 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Adrian Gudas [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm on a conservative disk space budget, and I want to know which packages I | have to get to get the base XFree86 system running (after a floppy | installation of Debian). Only the ones I have to get. I'll use the standard | SVGA server. Well, you need quite

Re: .xsession and xdm

1998-10-09 Thread Chris Hoover
Eric, Thanks for the help. It turned out that my .xinitrc file did not have the executable bit set. Thanks, chris E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: I have linked my working .xinitrc file to .xsession so that I could run xdm. However, every time I log in, xdm does not seem to execute the

Configuring Network Cards

1998-10-09 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi I just bought a new network card. But it is not include in the modconfig program. The card is a 3com905B-TX. Could your please tell me how I could inlcude the drivers in may shell. I don't have to packages to make a new shell. If you could outline the files and the process for recompiling the

Re: 2 ether, problems routing

1998-10-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 09:37:11AM +, Pere Camps wrote: First question: can I make an eth behave as a point-to-point if there are only two eth cards in the network? I don't know. Never tried. But it won't help you much. You'll need the proxy arp anyway. Example: Assume Adresses

Re: mc - tioctl - problem

1998-10-09 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 17:36:55 + (GMT), Pere Camps wrote: Hi! Whenever I return from a subshell of 'mc' I get the following error: TIOCLINUX (0/8/9) ioctl is gone - use /dev/vcs And then mc hangs. I'm using Debian 2.0 with the latests packages installed. Any help will be

getting KDE packages?

1998-10-09 Thread Vincent Murphy
Given that KDE is no longer available from the debian ftp archive, where should one go to get good packages for hamm/slink? The packages on ftp.kde.org seem to be for bo, which presumably means libc5. --vinny

Re: Netware server to Linux server

1998-10-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 08:01:49PM -0400, Matt Leese wrote: This is semi-off topic. I help administer a LAN at my school that is currently running on an underpowered Netware 3.12 server. We plan to replace the server with an extra PII 266 we have laying around. I personally would prefere to

CD Writer Recommendation

1998-10-09 Thread David Warnock
Hi, I need to add a CD Writer to my system. Can anyone give me a recommendation for a very reliable and fast writer (I only need writeable not re-writeable). I am only interested in a SCSI interface and would prefer an internal unit. What software do I need? Is it included in Hamm? For the

Re: goldstar cdrom driver

1998-10-09 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 05:47:19PM -0700, Steve Ball wrote: Could someone please point me to where to get the driver for a Goldstar CDROM, Model CRD8160B, Rom ver. 1.04D This seems to be an IDE cdrom, so the driver should be already in the kernel.

Re: CD Writer Recommendation

1998-10-09 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/09/98 at 09:47 AM, David Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Hi, I need to add a CD Writer to my system. Can anyone give me a recommendation for a very reliable and fast writer (I only need writeable not re-writeable). I am only interested in a SCSI interface and

I Cannot upgrade with apt!

1998-10-09 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, yesterday, a perl package had an error, because data-dumper. I tried to remove data-dumper and all packages that dependes on it. I removed all lg-issues. Today, the perl package is good and I cannot either install the lg-issues or remove them.

Re: I Cannot upgrade with apt!

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 07:43:34AM -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: yesterday, a perl package had an error, because data-dumper. I tried to remove data-dumper and all packages that dependes on it. I removed all lg-issues. Today, the perl package is good and I cannot either install

Re: Strange replies to postings to this list

1998-10-09 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi Joey, Hi Martin, s/Martin/Joey/ Sorry, that was too easy to overlook. :-) I don't know about you, but I got this mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED] again. Here it is: From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Oct 8 22:36:51 1998 Received: from ziele.de ([EMAIL PROTECTED] [194.77.138.21]) by

Re: Suck/get-news problem

1998-10-09 Thread John Forest
Gossamer wrote: My Debian install's -almost- making sense now! Just a few tiny things ... when I run get-news to download Usenet via suck, I get this: [snip] Total articles to download: 929 1836135 Bytes received in 62 mins 54.05 secs, BPS = 486.5 Closed connection to

Re: Wordperfect 7.0 on Debian 2.0

1998-10-09 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 9 Oct 1998, Bostjan JERKO wrote: libXpm.so.4 = /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXpm.so.4 (0x400eb000) I seem to be missing this library. Can anybody tell me in which package it is included. For WP, you will need the libc5 version, which is in xpm4.7. Bob Bob Nielsen

Re: Configuring Network Cards

1998-10-09 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hello George You don't understand my situation. I can't just go out of my office and buy a book on linux because there is non around here. I am located in Douala - Cameroon where there a terrible lacking of technical information. Even my connection is not too good so I have to make the best of

kdm

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Beattie
Who can get kdm to display a background picture/colour? No matter what I do, It wont work... kdebase Version: 2:980710-1.0-1 (slink) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject.

PGP 5 and Netscape Mail: How To?

1998-10-09 Thread Michael Laing
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a PGP 2.63/premail/Netscape 3.04 combination working OK. Is there a way to use PGP 5 with Netscape mail? Is there another email client that is well integrated with PGP 5? Thanks, Michael Laing -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset:

RE: Telnet and dselect seg fault

1998-10-09 Thread pat
Le 03-Oct-98, David Boisvert a pris ses électrons pour écrire:: Hello! ... So, that's the problem, dselect and telnet crash and and don't know why. So, if someone have this problem with or without a solution, mail me. I had once a similar problem after some hard disk corruption, that some

Suddenly problems starting X

1998-10-09 Thread Familien Bolding
At work today I had problems restarting X. I tried both woth xdm (which I use as default) and startx. xdm hang and the screen blinked every now and then. Using startx I was able to diagnose the problem to somthing like unable to use/open default font fixed errno -2 Sorry for the incomplete

Re: KDM behaving very funny...

1998-10-09 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Thu, 08 Oct 1998 14:20:03 +0200, I myself wrote: Hi guys, I had my system perfectly up and running for yuite a while, but suddenly my KDM doesn't want to start up any more and even crashes my sytem everytime I try to run it. It keeps on switching between graphics- and text-mode every 2

Re: CD Writer Recommendation

1998-10-09 Thread Hannu Koivisto
David Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I need to add a CD Writer to my system. Can anyone give me a | recommendation for a very reliable and fast writer (I only need | writeable not re-writeable). I am only interested in a SCSI interface | and would prefer an internal unit. Well, our company

Re: Configuring Network Cards

1998-10-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hi I just bought a new network card. But it is not include in the modconfig program. The card is a 3com905B-TX. Could your please tell me how I could inlcude the drivers in may shell. This card is quite new. I needed to recompile the kernel with the file 3c59x.c replaced with the latest

X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-09 Thread jörg bode
Who can tell us please any applicable XF86-settings for this Card (7'1998)? The best result we could get was 2 or more time repeated windows. The README.Mach64 file was helpful, but not to the end. ChipID: 0x475a (not recognized) Chip Revision: 58 (??!) Is there any one out there who

Re: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-09 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello j?rg: I believe #27 or 28 in xf86config should meet your requirements. Peter -Original Message- From: j?rg bode [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: muc.lists.debian.user To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Friday, October 09, 1998 7:24 AM Subject: X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB

Dutch Debian 2.0 Manual - Nederlandse Debian 2.0 Handleiding

1998-10-09 Thread J.A. Bezemer
[English translation below] In de afgelopen zomervakantie ben ik flink aan het schrijven geweest. Het resultaat is een behoorlijk complete Handleiding Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 Achtergronden, Installatie en Gebruik De onderdelen die aan de orde komen, zijn

Re: Magicfilter setup

1998-10-09 Thread H C Pumphrey
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, mwb wrote: On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 670c printer - what line do I need to give magicfilterconfig (the man pages don't seem to have such helpful information)? You'll need to get ghostscript from the slink distribution. This has

Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread Gernot Bauer
As I read in some postings (slashdot.org and several other mailing lists) debian is planning not to distribute KDE (and qt) anymore. Could anyone tell me the reason why kde should not be distributed via the non-free-tree (ftp)... Netscape is available as well (and this is software what I call

dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Brent McMillan
dselect does not seem to want to update packages for me. Previously, I had set [A]ccess method to CD-ROM that had only contrib packages. that went fine. But now, when I try to switch back to ftp access, everything seems to go well, but dselect thinks only contrib packages are available. So the

Re: Ne module forgot its parameters

1998-10-09 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Thu, 8 Oct 1998 15:15:30 +0200 (CET), Ulisses Alonso Camaro wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi again Matthew On Thu, 8 Oct 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote: snippety Hmmm...as a crude hack, I edited /etc/modules: ne io=0x300 Is this OK (it seems to have worked), or have I planted

Re: Suddenly problems starting X

1998-10-09 Thread Norbert Nemec
On Fri, 09 Oct 1998 14:12:24 +0200, Familien Bolding wrote: At work today I had problems restarting X. I tried both woth xdm (which I use as default) and startx. xdm hang and the screen blinked every now and then. Using startx I was able to diagnose the problem to somthing like unable to

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Fri, Oct 09, 1998 at 02:55:20PM +0100, Gernot Bauer wrote: As I read in some postings (slashdot.org and several other mailing lists) debian is planning not to distribute KDE (and qt) anymore. Please read the original announcment as posted on the debian-announce mailing list and the website

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
As I read in some postings (slashdot.org and several other mailing lists) debian is planning not to distribute KDE (and qt) anymore. Could anyone tell me the reason why kde should not be distributed via the non-free-tree (ftp)... Netscape is available as well (and this is software what I

Issues in switching to Debian

1998-10-09 Thread Rob Collins
I currently run RH 5 on my P-Pro sys, and I want to switch to Debian. While I'm doing that, I figure I should also get a few cool programs I've seen, like KDE, Eterm, the GIMP (the install that comes in RH makes a very minimally useful program ... but I've seen great things with it, so there must

Re: backup programs

1998-10-09 Thread Lee Bradshaw
On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 12:33:53PM -0700, Max wrote: I just set up my system to use Amanda only to discover that it cannot append to tapes, thus wasting a ton of space on every run (imagine putting a 90MB incremental backup on a tape that can store 24GB and then using a brand new tape the next

How to get into an ftp site

1998-10-09 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi I finally configures ppp on my linux system to dail my isp. I even configured as a dns server and it is working find. I tried to do ftp ftp.debian.org I got connected only I am being asked for a users name and password. Please what is the user name and password you need to connect to the

2.0 X still won't work

1998-10-09 Thread MJ Watson
After installing Debian 2.0 onto a clean system, X11 will not run. XF86Setup seems to go fine, my mouse appears to be configured properly, and all the software seems to be correctly installed. Of course, if something is missing, it wouldn't be obvious to me, either. Executing startx results in

motif debian

1998-10-09 Thread HAMDOUNI El bachir
hi, did any body tried to install motif 2 ( thoses who had the opportunity to have it ! ) rpm format in a Debian machine , i guess one have first to use Alien ... but did any body succeed ? NB:please don't respond by telling me that i'm damned by daring speak about such an no- freesoftware ;-)

Re: How to get into an ftp site

1998-10-09 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi I finally configures ppp on my linux system to dail my isp. I even configured as a dns server and it is working find. I tried to do ftp ftp.debian.org I got connected only I am being asked for a users name and password. Please what is the user name and password you need to connect to the

Re: Debian KDE philosophy

1998-10-09 Thread Ted Harding
Independently of the KDE issue, there's a question I've wondered about for some time. Has the GPL ever been tested in court (i.e. has there ever been a case that turned on it)? Best wishes, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL

Re: Simple Installation?

1998-10-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ole J. Tetlie wrote: *-Adrian Gudas [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I'm on a conservative disk space budget, and I want to know which packages I | have to get to get the base XFree86 system running (after a floppy | installation of Debian). Only the ones I have to get. I'll use the standard | SVGA

configuration of network card

1998-10-09 Thread Wilson Tuma
Hi I have asked this question b4 and did not get any satisfactory answer. So I will ask it in way that might make you people understand it better. I just bought a Network Card 3com905B-TX. This card model is not listed under modconf. What can I do to make my linux system see and use this

Re: X11: HELP for ATI 3DChar 4MB RageIIC AGP

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I also have had problems with an 'ATI 3D Rage II (DirectDraw)' card. It's on baord and I get odd mach64ProgramClkMach64CT: Warning: Q 16 messages, and the screen is garbled. Here's the output when I run X: XFree86 Version 3.3 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor

Re: configuration of network card

1998-10-09 Thread John B. Fink
On Fri, 9 Oct 1998, Wilson Tuma wrote: Hi I have asked this question b4 and did not get any satisfactory answer. So I will ask it in way that might make you people understand it better. I just bought a Network Card 3com905B-TX. This card model is not listed under modconf. What can

Can apt access a local cdrom?

1998-10-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have succeeded in getting apt to connect to a distant ftp site but I've been unable to get it to access my cdrom drive, which currently has the Cheapbytes version of debian. I've tried every combination of deb file:/cdrom I can think of but I keep getting malformed line in sources.list. Is it

Re: dselect not updating.

1998-10-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brent McMillan wrote: dselect does not seem to want to update packages for me. Previously, I had set [A]ccess method to CD-ROM that had only contrib packages. that went fine. But now, when I try to switch back to ftp access, everything seems to go well, but dselect thinks only contrib

Re: How to get into an ftp site

1998-10-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Wilson Tuma [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Wilson I finally configures ppp on my linux system to dail my isp. I Wilson even configured as a dns server and it is working find. I Wilson tried to do ftp ftp.debian.org I got connected only I am being Wilson asked for a users name and password. Wilson

Internet World LINUX Frenzy

1998-10-09 Thread Allan Bart
Hello, It was an exciting day at the internet exposition in New York city and the penguin was everywhere. The hottest booth of all was Oracles and their employees were wearing tux tee's as they gave out the oracle 8 for linux. Included in Oracles giant booth were representatives from

Oracle

1998-10-09 Thread Martin Oldfield
Slashdot ( http://www.slashdot.org/ ) has an article about Oracle's plans to support a Linux port. It cites http://www.theregister.co.uk/980908-23.html which tells us that Oracle have signed up with RedHat, VA Research, Pacific HiTech, and SuSE. Slashdot (though not the cited article) refer

  1   2   >