Re: How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilderspin) writes: | On 16 Nov 98 21:40:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent West) wrote: | | >Actually, that's not true. I want to eventually have a usable system, but | >I want to build it myself, not let an install script do it for me. As part | >of this process I'll also b

Re: iproute

1998-11-16 Thread Lindsay Allen
ip and rtmon sent direct. If you or anybody at all has *any* ideas on how to use iproute2 I would really like to hear about it. Even sample scripts that make use of it would be a help. Alexey's skill in creating iproute is sertainly not matched by his ability to tell us how it works. :-( =-=

PLEASE What audio device is java linux looking for???

1998-11-16 Thread Chip Grandits
I cannot get java-linux to make any sound using the AudioClip.play() method When I run the any applet which should play sound, when the sound is to play I get: no audio device audio player exited (running with -debug, yeilds no additional information) I can play sound with other applications. Th

Re: [Debian] max. swap size?

1998-11-16 Thread Adam J. Klein
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 > I added the append="mem=128M" line to lilo.conf so the system > realy sees 128M of RAM. Since I normaly use the rule SWAP=MEM*2 > on SUN and SGI I creat

Re: How to set a register bit on a PCI card ?

1998-11-16 Thread Mike Fetherston
You might want to try PCISPY from matrox. Not too sure where it's located, but it is on matrox's site (probably in utilities). http://www.matrox.com/mga Steve Hsieh wrote: > Hi, > > Would anyone on this list by any chance know how to read the value of bit > 15 of address offset 0x40 of a PCI c

Some Keyboard questions

1998-11-16 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hello, configuring keyboard settings on linux is driving me insane. But someone of you can help me with this trivial requirements. I want an identical setup for console, X and Xemacs: [Backspace] deletes to left, [delete] deletes to right, [left-control] should be control and finally [left-alt] sh

Please, what audio device is java-linux looking for?

1998-11-16 Thread Chip Grandits
Please someone tell me something about what is going wrong with sound on java-linux? No one on any use groups, help desks, or mailer lists will even acknowledge this question When the appletviewer is suppose to play a sound (AudioClip.play()) I get no audio device audio player exit output to the

RE: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread servis
Hmmm, I had that in my /etc/csh.login but since I use the menu system to start it it was not getting called in a login shell. I just stuck this in the /usr/X11R6/bin/netscape wrapper script. Lets see how that works. Brian *- Shaleh wrote about "RE: Stable GUI Web Browser" > in your bash startup

Re: in which directory does lynx.cfg belong?

1998-11-16 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 16 Nov 98 10:55:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Karlin)wrote: >Hello, >I'm attempting to get lynx to access the web via a proxy server on the lan. >As I was reading the lynx documentation, I came across a sample lynx.cfg >file. > >The sample file indicates that its default location should be >

Re: How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-16 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 16 Nov 98 21:40:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent West) wrote: >Actually, that's not true. I want to eventually have a usable system, but >I want to build it myself, not let an install script do it for me. As part >of this process I'll also become somewhat familiar with compiling programs >and se

iproute

1998-11-16 Thread Jay Austad
Does anyone have an i386 binary of iproute that they could send me, or upload to austadnt.fallon.com? I don't have dpkg, and I can't get it to compile, so I can't install the debian package. I can't get iproute to compile either. I get a bunch of errors, then I fix them, and it gets a little far

Re: Matlab 5.2 and Hamm

1998-11-16 Thread Mark Phillips
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > *- Mark Phillips wrote about "Matlab 5.2 and Hamm" > > > > I want to install matlab 5.2 on a Hamm system. I think I need to check > > You will need xpm4.7, xlib6, libg++27, and maybe termcap-compat. > Thanks for the info. I'm getting the follo

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread David Warnock
** Reply to message from "Jeff Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:48:43 -0500 > Maybe you should call Microsoft and see if they're porting InternetExplorer to Linux anytime soon! > HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA Gee thanks. Dave PS I am British and I am always sarcastic, I

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread David Warnock
** Reply to message from Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:20:45 -0500 (EST) > Odd, I use NS every day (I work for an ISP). Occasional glitches, but nothing > like that. My netscape is sometimes ope for three days straight. I am using > 4.5 currently. H'mm I wonder where to loo

Re: Slink broke after upgrade

1998-11-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Mario Bertrand wrote: > > > > With my experience, I don't believe the latest X11 stuff in slink is > > broken anymore, but its been broken down into a bunch of smaller debs. > > I scrubbed my system free of all the old X11 stuff (except config files) > > and loaded the slink X11 suff, and e

Re: HELP slink upgrade: netscape: locale `C' not supported

1998-11-16 Thread Rene Hojbjerg Larsen
Jeff Noxon wrote: > Re-install xlib6g and it should work. Now if only I could get Acrobat > working again... Removing /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11/locale (empty dir) and linking it to /usr/lib/X11/locale instead worked for me. A small glitch in the upgrade process, I presume. -- /'"`\ z

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 03:48:43PM -0500, Jeff Miller wrote: : Maybe you should call Microsoft and see if they're porting Internet : Explorer to Linux anytime soon! Don't be too surprised if they're already doing so.. bye, -Remco (who wonders what the M$PL will be)

adjusting network card settings - where?

1998-11-16 Thread kvaughan
In ongoing efferts to get networked here (work), I may wind up taking my Olicom card out of PNP mode to get things working. If so I'm presuming I'll need to set up parameters somewhere. Can anyone point me in the right direction?? I'm quite green at this stuff. Along a similar line ... does a P

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread Shaleh
On 16-Nov-98 David Warnock wrote: > ** Reply to message from Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Mon, 16 Nov 1998 > 15:20:45 -0500 (EST) > >> Odd, I use NS every day (I work for an ISP). Occasional glitches, but >> nothing >> like that. My netscape is sometimes ope for three days straight. I am >> u

Re: [Debian] max. swap size?

1998-11-16 Thread Peter Berlau
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 > I added the append="mem=128M" line to lilo.conf so the system > realy sees 128M of RAM. Since I normaly use the rule SWAP=MEM*2 > on SUN and SGI I creat

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-16 Thread john
Marc Haber writes: > Is this [pppd's inability to receive 'dynamic' dns ip's] an implementation > restriction? Can it be implemented? Is this part of the IPCP negotiation > documented? I see no reason why it couldn't be implemented. I don't know if this part of the IPCP negotiation is documented

Re: How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-16 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: > I've spent the last couple of days searching the web for this, but no > luck. > > Does anyone know where I can find info to manually build a linux system > (software, not hw) from scratch? I want to do this for the learning, not > for usability. Actually,

How to manually install minimal system

1998-11-16 Thread Kent West
I've spent the last couple of days searching the web for this, but no luck. Does anyone know where I can find info to manually build a linux system (software, not hw) from scratch? I want to do this for the learning, not for usability. Details: In the DOS world, I know that you have to fdisk and

Re: Slink broke after upgrade

1998-11-16 Thread Mario Bertrand
> With my experience, I don't believe the latest X11 stuff in slink is > broken anymore, but its been broken down into a bunch of smaller debs. > I scrubbed my system free of all the old X11 stuff (except config files) > and loaded the slink X11 suff, and everything is now working. > > >

RE: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread Shaleh
in your bash startup file place: $MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS=True export MOZILLA_NO_ASYNC_DNS This kills the "dns helper". See if that helps any. On 16-Nov-98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I get the same behavior as David with Netscape 4.5 (it is out of beta > now). The thing gets stuck and eats the cp

RE: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread servis
I get the same behavior as David with Netscape 4.5 (it is out of beta now). The thing gets stuck and eats the cpu until I 'kill -9' it, it appears to get hung on a dns lookup for some reason. I also usually have to restart it at least once a day because it is taking a HUGE amount of swap. This mo

Re: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread Jeff Miller
Maybe you should call Microsoft and see if they're porting Internet Explorer to Linux anytime soon! HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA >>> David Warnock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 11/16/98 3:02:25 PM >>> Hi all, Does anyone/everyone have problems with Netscape communicator? I have had the same problem

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

1998-11-16 Thread Rich Harran.
Not very enlightening: I cut and pasted: dmesg | grep Memory into an xterm, and it just did a linefeed. non the wiser Rich --- Begin Message --- On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:41:11PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: > I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236. Am I misinterpreting > something, or

Re: Gnome chokes on libgtk

1998-11-16 Thread Jeff Miller
Kent, You may want to check gnome.org for more information on installing and setting up gnome. It is a trial and error procedure for most... However, assuming you have everything setup and ready to go, you should make changes to your Xsession file as follows: Icewm & gnome-session You can r

lpd problem

1998-11-16 Thread Remi Dumont
Hi, I've got a little problem, trying to use lpr with my HP laserjet 6L. Although I configured printcap and filters with apsfilter (the printing of the test page worked fine !), each time I try (as root or as normal user) to use lpr , it answers: connection to 'localhost' failed - Con

Re: MP3 -----> ?

1998-11-16 Thread Jens Ritter
Phillip Neumann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I dont know where to ask this, so will try to get some answears here > > Im looking for a mp3 portable player, > > Do you know where can i find info about cheaps and good ones?? Search shlashdot.org -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

1998-11-16 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:41:11PM +, Rich Harran. wrote: > I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236. Am I misinterpreting > something, or do I have a memory problem. (I only tried 'free' after > following this thread!) > dmesg | grep Memory should enlighten you. -- Laurent PICOUL

RE: Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread Shaleh
Odd, I use NS every day (I work for an ISP). Occasional glitches, but nothing like that. My netscape is sometimes ope for three days straight. I am using 4.5 currently. Javascript only exists in netscape (or mozilla I think). On 16-Nov-98 David Warnock wrote: > Hi all, > > Does anyone/everyon

Re: device or resource busy

1998-11-16 Thread David S. Jackson
Thus spake Conrado Badenas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "David S. Jackson" wrote: > > Card config: > > Sound Blaster at 0x220 irq 7 drq 1,5 > > (SB MPU-401 irq 1 drq 0) > > OPL-2/OPL-3 FM at 0x388 drq 0 > > Are you sure your SB16 use irq7 (default value for SBpro)? Mine uses > irq5 (default value for S

Stable GUI Web Browser

1998-11-16 Thread David Warnock
Hi all, Does anyone/everyone have problems with Netscape communicator? I have had the same problem with 4.06, 4.07, 4.08 and the latest beta of 4.5 After I have been browsing for a while it just suddenly crashes - no error message (well in the beta I get a talkback thing to report the error - bu

Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rob Collins wrote: > > On the same topic, I've recently had a crash in debian -- one that I've > had before in Redhat 4. I've a very funky, self-built system... the crash > is like this (and sometimes its like clockwork): > 1. boot with xdm. Log in. > 2. to switch to a different terminal. > 3.

Re: Slink broke after upgrade

1998-11-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Paul McDermott wrote: > > Hi all, after upgrade to the latest version of slink using dftp. Wdm is > broken it gives me the following error. > wdmLogin warning: could not load font set > -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. > wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font! >

Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rob Collins wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > > > what version of Netscape were you using ? The latest 4.5 or the older 4.0. > > > > I recently installed the 4.5 on my SMP system and have been having system > > freezes happening at least once a day. > > Jeezus, system

Re: Several questions

1998-11-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
buns wrote: > > Hi > > 1st q. - > > A couple of months ago I did a fresh install of hamm stable and I have > been experiencing character weirdness (basically unintelligible > characters) appearing at my terminal when (not all the time though) I > switch from x-windows to terminal screen. The pro

Re: more on slink breaks

1998-11-16 Thread Ed Cogburn
Remco van de Meent wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:41:55AM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: > > : Well, I even re-installed an old version of xlib6, and I still get the > : "locale 'C' no supported" from netscape. I get a similar error when I > : try and run JavaICQ. Anyone have any ideas how

Gnome chokes on libgtk

1998-11-16 Thread Kent West
Let me preface this by saying that I don't know what I'm doing. I believe I've got apt up and running, and using it I've installed gnome-core (presumably with all its dependencies), but I can't find any man entry on gnome, so I don't know how to make it start. I tried running gnomeg (since it look

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-16 Thread servis
*- Ingo Hohmann wrote about "Re: dselect (or apt) wish list" > Well, there's one little thing I'd like to add ... > > I use apt 0.1.5 on Hamm, and I'd like to put all > paths to packages into one sources.lists file. > But the packages are on different CDs, and the > apt method of dselect exits wit

segmentation fault with viewres & listres

1998-11-16 Thread Christopher Mosley
I installed debian linux (official debian 2.02 cd) and viewres and listres fails because of an immediate segmentation fault when the program is run. Is there a way to avoid this - other sources that can be compiled or something that can be done if this a problem of dynamic linking?

netscape install fail

1998-11-16 Thread Vera Lucia Mazzocchi
Hi, I'm trying to install communicator 4.5 on my system using netscape4 installer. The files are correctly set into the file system, but the wrapper script (/usr/X11/bin/netscape) has some typos and sintaxe errors, I guess, because it didn't launch netscape. It used to work before I upgra

SB Vibra PnP Sound Card

1998-11-16 Thread Vincent Murphy
I would like to be able to use my Creative Labs ViBRA PnP Sound Card with hamm. How do I use isapnptools to install it? Redhat 5.0 detected it first time last year. --vinny -- Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +353 (086) 8397405 "Too much of anything is bad, but too mu

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-16 Thread Marc Haber
On 16 Nov 1998 10:03:29 -0600, you wrote: >Martin Bialasinski writes: >> The pppd simply has no mean to prozess this information. > >Yes. It can send them, but can't receive them. Is this an implementation restriction? Can it be implemented? Is this part of the IPCP negotiation documented? Greet

Re: device or resource busy

1998-11-16 Thread David S. Jackson
Thus spake Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > try lsof /dev/audio as root. > Then we can find what process is opening (using) the device. > Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique > Thanks very much. I listed lsof /dev/audio as root,

And what processor type for CeleronA ? was: AMD K6-2 kernel compile ?

1998-11-16 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Hi, no that we got the answer to the K6-2 question, what about CeleronA ? What is the processor type to choose for this CPU for kernel compilation ? Anyone got a clue? Ciao, Martin

Re: 96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!

1998-11-16 Thread Rich Harran.
Thanks: puts my mind at rest! Rich --- Begin Message --- 32 MB minus memory used by kernel = 30236 available to other processes. Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236. Am I misinterpreting > something, or do I have a memory problem. (I only tried 'free' af

Re:96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

1998-11-16 Thread Rob Collins
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Rich Harran. wrote: > I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236. Am I misinterpreting > something, or do I have a memory problem. (I only tried 'free' after > following this thread!) > > TIA > Rich Harran Rich, your worried about the missing 3 MB? I'm not sure why t

Re: Error in reiciving mail

1998-11-16 Thread Oliver Elphick
Carmen Correia wrote: >When I try to read my mail I receive an error, and, in the >´messages.log´ file of the Linux machine I have the following messages: > >in.qpopper[1114] : Unable to open temporary maildrop >´/var/spool/pop/carmen.pop´ : no such file or directory (2) > >in.qpopp

trn trouble on slink

1998-11-16 Thread Jason Lunz
- Forwarded message from Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 11:11:01 -0500 (EST) From: Zack Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: trn trouble on slink When I try to run trn, I get the following error: --- Warning: Couldn'

Re:96M RAM, but free only shows 64M!!!

1998-11-16 Thread Rich Harran.
I supposedly have 32Mb ram, but free says 30236. Am I misinterpreting something, or do I have a memory problem. (I only tried 'free' after following this thread!) TIA Rich Harran

[Fwd: H E L P !!!!]

1998-11-16 Thread Michael M Ayers
Hello Mr. Joey Hess suggested I get on this mailing list !! I'm not too familiar with mailing list protocol could you please implement my E-mail address and post this message on mailing list !! Thank you !! Mikey...a --- Begin Message --- Hmm. I don't install debian often - I've only done it 4 t

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Chip Grandits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | As has been strongly encouraged, I spend most of my time on my linux box as a | mortal user. | Every once in a while I need to go 'root-in' around some system | files to set up | a new application | that I've downloaded (or for whatever reason?). | Sure

Re: 2nd question of the day: Xsecurity

1998-11-16 Thread David Z. Maze
Chris Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: CE> I'd like to use Emacs from within X on my home machine when I do CE> have to telnet in for work but I'm getting a refusal to give Emacs CE> X client access to the server on the remote machine (if I've got CE> the server/client naming the right way round).

Re: Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 09:23:12 -0800, Eric House wrote: > My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode > it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even > though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. Take a look at "SVGAtextmode". HTH, Ray --

Re: linux operating system

1998-11-16 Thread Greg Frye
A very good comparison can be found at: http://www.jimmo.com/Linux-NT_Debate/index.html Will Lowe wrote: > > > We are a group of students doing an assignment on LINUX operating > > system. We hope that you will be able to give us some information on > > the LINUX installation and comparison with

Re: [Debian] max. swap size?

1998-11-16 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 18:18:04 +0100 (CET) Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailing-List: archi

Re: [Debian] max. swap size?

1998-11-16 Thread Peter Granroth
On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 06:18:04PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 > I added the append="mem=128M" line to lilo.conf so the system > realy sees 128M of RAM. Since I normaly use the rule SWAP=MEM*2 > on SUN and SGI I creat

RE: [Debian] max. swap size?

1998-11-16 Thread Jon Burchmore
> I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 > I added the append="mem=128M" line to lilo.conf so the system > realy sees 128M of RAM. Since I normaly use the rule SWAP=MEM*2 > on SUN and SGI I created a swappartition of 256MB and did mkswap > and... got only 130MB. Why can't

Re: StarOffice 5 - S3 fix available

1998-11-16 Thread ferret
Hmmm. This must be where you run the setup program, and it locks the entire console about a second or two after putting up its big window. I'm running on a virge GDx2 with the s3v server. On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Will Lowe wrote: > > Those of you who have an S3V video card might like to know that wh

Re: Alt Key no longer functions

1998-11-16 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi, I haven't followed this thread, but yesterday I got a similar problem, I think. I ran mc in an xterm, and pressed to start editing a file, this started emacs in a new window. While emacs started, I pressed - to get it to the full window size, but nothing happened. After that the key wasn't

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-16 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Well, there's one little thing I'd like to add ... I use apt 0.1.5 on Hamm, and I'd like to put all paths to packages into one sources.lists file. But the packages are on different CDs, and the apt method of dselect exits with an error if one of the paths isn't accessible. Ingo --- Ingo Hohmann

Console mode with >80x24 possible?

1998-11-16 Thread Eric House
Can I rebuild the kernal to use my entire display? My hamm-equipped laptop has an 800x600 screen. When in console mode it uses only the middle of the screen for an 80x24 display -- even though there's room on the screen for at least 120x32. I use console mode a lot to save batteries. And I'd lo

[Debian] max. swap size?

1998-11-16 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I installed a PC with 128MB of RAM running Linux kernel 2.0.34 I added the append="mem=128M" line to lilo.conf so the system realy sees 128M of RAM. Since I normaly use the rule SWAP=MEM*2 on SUN and SGI I created a swappartition of 256MB and did mkswap and... got only 130MB. Why can't I

Re: Is name server discovery possible?

1998-11-16 Thread john
Martin Bialasinski writes: > No. BTW: this is not about descovering them [dns addresses]. They get > transmitted during IPCP negotiation (IIRC). You do. > The pppd simply has no mean to prozess this information. Yes. It can send them, but can't receive them. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (

Re: Can't start windowmaker

1998-11-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 01:24:36AM -0500, Mario Bertrand wrote: > Hi, > > I can't start windowmaker from login with startx command, it open a few > seconds and then it crash. All other WM are ok. Is there something > missing? If you have xlib6g 3.3.2.3a-7 installed, reinstall it. Check the exista

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-16 Thread Andrew Ivanov
> Sure I can type > $ su root > at the promt and become root Hrm, su --login root works for me from X every time. Andrew

Re: problems after upgrading libc6

1998-11-16 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Checking system integrity...dependency error > You might want to run apt-get -f install' to correct these. > Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet > dependencies: > apt: Depends:libc6 get apt 0.1.9 from slink and h

MP3 -----> ?

1998-11-16 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hi I dont know where to ask this, so will try to get some answears here Im looking for a mp3 portable player, Do you know where can i find info about cheaps and good ones?? Thanks, -- __ /

Re: How do you use su under X?

1998-11-16 Thread Martin Waller
I use Xnest: Xnest -query :1 -geometry x & This brings up an xdm login - login as root, perform your task, quit, close the window. Easy as abc. Works on my 486 Dx100 w/ 24MB ram and 1mb video! >Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 09:26:28 -0700 >From: Chip Grandits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Debianonians

Re: X Slink upgrade break matlab

1998-11-16 Thread servis
*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "X Slink upgrade break matlab" > Hi Debian users, > I recently upgrade XWindow to last slink version and > matlab stops to run. The error is: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ matlab > /usr/local/stow/matlab/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' >

telnet timeout

1998-11-16 Thread chadi
hi ! how do i put a telnet timeout to those who try to establish a telnet connection and doesnt successfully log in after 60 secs ? thanks chad

Re: Summary: upgrading bo->hamm with Linuxpress official CD:s

1998-11-16 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > P.S. Is it just me, or is the Glimpse search engine for the list Archives > seriously bad? I can't seem to find anything interesting... In my limited experience, I've not been impressed with the Archive search capabilities. -- Kent West [EMAIL PRO

Re: Moving Files from Windows

1998-11-16 Thread Rob Collins
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Jeff Katcher wrote: > "Costa, Michael J." wrote: > > I have just installed LINUX on another machine in my office. The powers that > > be are reluctant at this moment to let me put in on the network. I have > > loaded some items down to my NT machine and now need to ship them t

Slink broke after upgrade

1998-11-16 Thread Paul McDermott
Hi all, after upgrade to the latest version of slink using dftp. Wdm is broken it gives me the following error. wdmLogin warning: could not load font set -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-*-*. Trying fixed. wdmLogin warning: could not load fixed font! wdmLogin warning: could not load fon

How do you use su under X?

1998-11-16 Thread Chip Grandits
As has been strongly encouraged, I spend most of my time on my linux box as a mortal user. Every once in a while I need to go 'root-in' around some system files to set up a new application that I've downloaded (or for whatever reason?). Sure I can type $ su root at the promt and become root but I c

RE: Debian Crash

1998-11-16 Thread Rob Collins
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: > what version of Netscape were you using ? The latest 4.5 or the older 4.0. > > I recently installed the 4.5 on my SMP system and have been having system > freezes happening at least once a day. Jeezus, system crashes once a day! Uninstall that

Re: linux operating system

1998-11-16 Thread Will Lowe
> We are a group of students doing an assignment on LINUX operating > system. We hope that you will be able to give us some information on > the LINUX installation and comparison with windows or DOS. Um, yeah, we probably could, but you'll need to ask more specific questions I'd suggest y

Re: Debian Crash

1998-11-16 Thread Rob Collins
On the same topic, I've recently had a crash in debian -- one that I've had before in Redhat 4. I've a very funky, self-built system... the crash is like this (and sometimes its like clockwork): 1. boot with xdm. Log in. 2. to switch to a different terminal. 3. Log in, do my stuff, log out. 4.

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Alan Tam wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a filter for HP Deskjet 660C in the Debian Packages ? > So far I can get from magicfilter_1.2-24.deb is dj550c-filter. > > I am trying to print the manual pages through my HP Deskjet > 660c. A > question on how to elimin

Re: need firewall advice

1998-11-16 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, In this case I actually want to get the full 100 BaseT bandwidth because the firewall is between our department and the rest of our site. The actual link to the internet is quite high speed (much more than T1). So the question remains I think: how much cpu power does it take to get full 10

Re: Cyrillic input in X

1998-11-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
[...] > I probably described my problem not clearly. I already installed cyrillic > fonts and they are mentioned in XF86Config file. My problem is I can't > type in Russian. However I choosed Russian keyboard during XF86Setup. I see ... I only once set up reading cyrillic web pages for some Bul

Error in reiciving mail

1998-11-16 Thread Carmen Correia
I have a machine with Debian Linux 2.0 and I want to use it as a mail server, so the persons in my organization can exchange electronic mail. I configure Outlook Express, in my PC with windows 95, to send and receive mail using the Debian Linux machine. I have no problems in sending mail, and the

Re: Matlab 5.2 and Hamm

1998-11-16 Thread servis
*- Mark Phillips wrote about "Matlab 5.2 and Hamm" > Hi, > > I want to install matlab 5.2 on a Hamm system. I think I need to check > that I have the correct libraries. I've found a list at: > > http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/v5/21466.shtml > > But the other thing is: is matlab com

problems about upgrading kernel

1998-11-16 Thread Yu Zhao
Hello every one: I have a problem: When I upgrade kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.35, everything works OK. But when I restart my computer, it complains that network can not reached, and NFS does not work. But when I reboot using old kernel, all works fine. (I use debian 1.3) Could you tell me why?

Re: exim and local_part

1998-11-16 Thread Paul Slootman
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >so everytime a send a message to any user, let say joe.user >exim correctly change the 'to:' field to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >but then it claims: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]: > unknown local-part "joe.user" in domain "my.domain.name" Do you have a user "joe.user" in your p

Re: emacs -- (Not X) Hexl-mode C-M does not work

1998-11-16 Thread W. Paul Mills
Joseph Hartmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My "info" on emacs tells me after I do a M-x hexl-mode > C-M-x should be the way to insert a character in hex. Does C-M-x > mean Control m (or Control M) followed by an "x" ? Control-m or > Control M gives me a Carriage Return, not a prefix to a fur

Re: Sound recording over-run

1998-11-16 Thread Paul Slootman
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>kernel: Sound: Recording overrun >> >>It means that your application can't take the data out of the kernel >>buffers quickly enough, which means that the kernel buffers overflow >>(i.e. are overrun). This c

X Slink upgrade break matlab

1998-11-16 Thread baptista
Hi Debian users, I recently upgrade XWindow to last slink version and matlab stops to run. The error is: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ~$ matlab /usr/local/stow/matlab/bin/lnx86/matlab: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' What is the problem? Have a nice day,Paul

Re: Cyrillic input in X

1998-11-16 Thread Vad Ivanov
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: > > > > Could anybody share his(her) positive (and negative too :)) experience in > > setting up of cyrillic input in X? > > > > In text mode I already have full cyrillic support. In X I can see texts in > > Russian but no one cyrillic letter input

Re: ssh

1998-11-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
[Moved to -user. This does _not_ belong on -private.] On Mon, Nov 16, 1998 at 11:10:11AM -0300, Carlos Barros wrote: > Is there any new version for ssh*.deb. There are no ssh 2.0 .debs. The current maintainer isn't interested (as ssh2 has even more restrictive usage conditions than ssh1), a

Re: kernel 2.1.128 & sound

1998-11-16 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Hi : > > > Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading > > sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this > > error message: > > > > [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au > /dev/audio > > bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by d

Re: Problem installing jdk1.1.6

1998-11-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Gernot Bauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried to install jdk1.1.6v4a-3.deb from the slink distribution to my > hamm-system but some errors occured: > > mother# dpkg -i /home/gbauer/jdk1.1_1.1.6v4a-3.deb > (Reading database ... 31523 files and directories currently installed.) > Preparing to

AMD K6-2 kernel compile ?

1998-11-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>Hi group readers, > >I was wondering what CPU I should select for compiling >the kernel. I >have a >AMD K6-2 300MHz. Should I compile for a regular >pentium, or do the newer >kernels have K6 as a selectable CPU ? The K6 should work fine on a kernel compiled as pentium Pro. This implies the leve

Re: Dj660c-filter and stepping

1998-11-16 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Alan : There is a filter for avoid the star-stepping effect : /etc/filter.pcl > > Is there a filter for HP Deskjet 660C in the Debian Packages ? > So far I can get from magicfilter_1.2-24.deb is dj550c-filter. > > I am trying to p

Re: gcc: Internal compiler error: program as got fatal signal 11

1998-11-16 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
Dale : Are you having the problem when compiling or when running the program? After upgrated from "bo" to "hamm" I'm having these program when I run the newest program compiled with gcc. These programs don't run and stop with SEGV signal without a core dump.

Re: AMD K6-2 kernel compile ?

1998-11-16 Thread Dave Swegen
On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 17:03 +0100, Marc van der Vossen wrote: > > Wowie, just a bit of time and my PC won't have any Intel, nor Microshit on > it. ;-))) Didn't you hear? Intel is now one of the good guys :) Cheers Dave -- Dave Swegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Cyrillic input in X

1998-11-16 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
> > Could anybody share his(her) positive (and negative too :)) experience in > setting up of cyrillic input in X? > > In text mode I already have full cyrillic support. In X I can see texts in > Russian but no one cyrillic letter input in xterm, in Netscape etc. First you should add the debian

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