Linux and Nuevas tecnologias

1998-12-30 Thread Jordi Román Mejias
Bueno todo el mundo esta invertiendo en hardware y a mi me ha llegado una Sound Blaster PCI 64 v Que tal lo tengo para poder oir algo en mi debian. Los nuevos kernels soportan estos elementos Muchas gracias y Prospero año nuevo (La Navidad ha sido Feliz ¿Verdad?)

Unidentified subject!

1998-12-30 Thread Phillip Neumann
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:27:17 TooManySecrets wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] el día Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 02:32:24AM -0300 expuso lo siguiente: la verdad es que eso ya lo probe y lo unico que hace es decirle a las applicacions que traten de hablarme en castellano. Pero lo que quiero es mas o

(sin asunto)

1998-12-30 Thread Antonio Fernández Fernández
Es cierta la condena a muerte a piratas informáticos ? begin: vcard fn: Antonio Fernández Fernández n: Fernández Fernández;Antonio email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: FALSE version:2.1 end:vcard

Re: (sin asunto)

1998-12-30 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
Antonio Fernández Fernández writes: Es cierta la condena a muerte a piratas informáticos ? Pues no estoy absolutamente seguro de su autenticidad, pero una fuente bastante fiable me ha enviado esto (desafortuandamente no tengo la URL): Chinese Hackers Get

Tarjetas gráficas AGP

1998-12-30 Thread Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide
Hola, Quiero dar las gracias al grupo por facilitarme la dirección para bajar el servidor XBF_i740. Llevaba bastante tiempo intentando hacer funcionar mi tarjeta RAGE II C AGP con las X-window y no lo había conseguido. Nada más bajar los dos ficheros, el servidor y el de

re:teclado

1998-12-30 Thread Emilio
[EMAIL PROTECTED] el dia Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 02:32:24AM -0300 expuso losiguiente: la verdad es que eso ya lo probe y lo unico que hace es decirle a lasapplicacions que traten de hablarme en castellano. Pero lo que quiero es mas omenos al revez...quiero apretar la tecla ene y que salga

Re: Tarjetas gráficas AGP

1998-12-30 Thread · Mig ·
¿Existe alguna forma de personalizar colores de fondo, modificar los menús que aparecen por defecto, etc? Me imagino que habrá que tocar en algún fichero de configuración pero no sé cuál es. ?has probado el Window Maker? http://www.windowmaker.org/ Te olvidarás de los ficheros de

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-12-30 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 11:06:04PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:27:17 TooManySecrets wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] el día Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 02:32:24AM -0300 expuso lo siguiente: la verdad es que eso ya lo probe y lo unico que hace es decirle a las

Re: Tarjetas gráficas AGP

1998-12-30 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:32:14AM +0100, Antonio Angel Sanz Arróspide wrote: Tengo instalado el gestor de ventanas fvwm95 y me gustaría realizar algunas consultas: ¿Existe alguna forma de personalizar colores de fondo, modificar los menús que aparecen por defecto, etc? Me imagino

Re: HP Colorado 8 Gb

1998-12-30 Thread Antonio Castro
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Ximo Nadal wrote: Hola:-) Tengo instalada una HP Colorado de 8 Gb con Debian 2.0 y no se como hacerla funcionar, ni si hay utilidades para su manejo desde linux. Si alguien sabe algo, que me lo cuente. Gracias y feliz 1.999 a todos. Yo uso una HP Colorado Travan.

Como hacer una buena copia de seguridad

1998-12-30 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos, ante todo FELIZ 1999 por si no os escribo antes de mañana por la noche. Las copias de seguridad que hago a mi sistema (uso personal y con conexión a red por módem) las realizo con Taper en un mismo fichero de backup a disco zip, eligiendo: Configuracion del sistema:

No comprendo los mensajes de cron.

1998-12-30 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 02:46:58PM +0100, Cron Daemon wrote: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: File /usr/bin/htpasswd registered but not installed File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not installed /usr/bin/mail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.mail 777 changed to

Re: Grabadora de CDs ¿cual?

1998-12-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 03:36:00PM +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: como decía Ignacio, yo he sido bueno este año así que le voy a pedir a los Reyes una grabadora de CDs, he estado mirando la lista de compatibilidades hardware para asesorar a sus majestades los Reyed de Oriente pero no

Re: Cambio de contexto en WindowMaker

1998-12-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:03:08AM +0100, Juanmi Mora wrote: Sabe alguién donde encontrar el parche para WindowMaker que permite el cambio de contexto (de ventanas) con Alt+Tab. No me refiero al CirculateRaise. Me refiero a la forma de cambiar entre tareas como se hace en Güindos.

Re: Unidentified subject!

1998-12-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 11:06:04PM -0300, Phillip Neumann wrote: al instalar debian 2.1, lo hice hace 3 dias, me pregunt'o sobre el teclado, le dije castellano y pude escribir las e~nes, acentos, etc. Rebootie y se paso todo al ingles Prueba con 'kbdconfig' (como root)

Re: Cambio de contexto en WindowMaker

1998-12-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:21:07AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Si no recuerdo mal en http://www.windowmaker.org/ hay un enlace que dice 'Links', y allí hay uno que dice 'Window Maker patches'. Eso es lo que buscas. Perdona si no te doy algo más preciso, pero todas estas páginas ya

Re: Teclado

1998-12-30 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Mon, Dec 28, 1998 at 08:33:13PM +0100, TooManySecrets wrote: Tengo el tipico problema... Como hago que mi teclado espa~nol actue como tal? Pon en tu fichero /etc/profile lo siguiente: LANG=es_ES y ya'tá. Pues yo tengo LANG=es_ES.ISO-8859-1 ¿Hay alguna diferencia? --

Re: Cambio de contexto en WindowMaker

1998-12-30 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:03:08AM +0100, Juanmi Mora wrote: Hola Lista!!! Sabe alguién donde encontrar el parche para WindowMaker que permite el cambio de contexto (de ventanas) con Alt+Tab. No me refiero al CirculateRaise. Me refiero a la forma de cambiar entre tareas como se hace en

Re: Cambio de contexto en WindowMaker

1998-12-30 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 09:37:58PM +0100, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: No entiendo a qué te refieres. Con el CirculateRaise activado a mi me funciona como en Windows. Windows tiene la característica de cambiar la ventana focalizada de una forma bastante rara (personalmente yo la detesto --

Re: Interfaz dpkgweb

1998-12-30 Thread Rafael Cordones Marcos
On Sun, Dec 27, 1998 at 05:13:40PM +, Antonio Calvo Rodriguez wrote: Este fin de semana e estado preparando unas paginas web para un servidor que tengo en el trabajo, me interesaria mostrar una lista de los paquetes instalados en el mismo, para ello he escrito este script, pero como mis

Re: Install wierdness or newbie goes doh!

1998-12-30 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1998-12-29 16:50, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Received: from pop3.freewwweb.com by fetchmail-4.6.4 POP3 for wind/localhost (single-drop); Tue, 29 Dec 1998 10:05:44 EST Received: from murphy.novare.net (murphy.debian.org [209.176.56.6]) by mx2.freewwweb.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with

Re: OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?

1998-12-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 08:21:43PM +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Hi All I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. Instead I've found the string header which defines the string class. Is it OK to use it in new C++ programs, or it is added only for compatibility? Why

Re: Install wierdness or newbie goes doh!

1998-12-30 Thread Sourcerer
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, John Reid wrote: rm Also I may need to add hdc=cdrom as a boot parameter for my cdrom (see below) - I can't find anywhere obvious to do this in the install script. I tried adding the cdrom module and feeding it hdc=cdrom as a parameter - received error - this module

Re: mounting W95 partitions

1998-12-30 Thread Avijit Bandyopadhyay
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Ted Llewellyn wrote: I need to mount my Windows 95 partitions from the Debian 2.0 setup. I keep getting errors that say I am trying to mount an extended partition. Well, guess what? That's exactly what I'm trying to do! Just what is Linux's syntax for these DOS

Re: debian-cd package broken? (hamm)

1998-12-30 Thread Steve McIntyre
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: OK, I have a few questions. Background: [ Simple responses to most of these, your biggest problem is #4 ] We have a mirror (debian.ssc.com for those on the west coast who hadn't noticed) which makes on-site installs a breeze. However, we have employees

Re: debian-cd package broken? (hamm)

1998-12-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Pann McCuaig wrote: OK, I have a few questions. Background: We have a mirror (debian.ssc.com for those on the west coast who hadn't noticed) which makes on-site installs a breeze. However, we have employees who'd like to install Debian at home, so I thought Gee, we have a mirror, why don't

Hey girls and boys

1998-12-30 Thread me
Hey there! I'm new. I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on Intel and Alpha platforms): Fatal server error: could not open defualt font 'fixed' I figured it must have been some mis-configuration on my part, but I can't find any mismatched dependencies. Oh:

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-30 Thread john
Frederic Breitwieser writes: In the ip-up and up-down scripts, I had to switch directories in order for the program to see its config file in the same directory - it doesn't use any path or environment variables ! This documented in the pppd man page. It is done for security reasons. The

Re: Acroread Hamm ???

1998-12-30 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I am totally confused by this here is my ldd acroread output. libreadcore.so = wc_deb:/usr/local/opt/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/bin-ldd acroread libreadcore.so = /usr/local/opt/Acrobat3/Reader/intellinux/lib/libreadcore.so (0x4000a000) libpfs.so =

Nevermind... sorry Re: Acroread Hamm ???

1998-12-30 Thread Wayne Cuddy
I did not have the old Xt and X libraries that where compiled against libc5 installed and that was the problem. I can wait for this libc5 legacy stuff to go away. Thanks for the help. On Mon, 28 Dec 1998, Stephan Engelke wrote: Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1998 22:12:45 +0100 From: Stephan Engelke

molim pomoc

1998-12-30 Thread Darko Martic
Pozdrav ! Posto iz subjecta mozete zakljuciti o cemu se radi, prijeci cu odmah na stvar. Evo upravo sam vec treci put pokusao instalirati taj OS sa VIDI CDa iz broja 29/30 no sve prodje ok osim instalacije X Window systema. Naime podesim u xbase-configure sve kako i je, sto se tice graficke

Re: Logo

1998-12-30 Thread Ian Keith Setford
When I started using Debian a little over 2 years ago I thought the capital DEBIAN that was multi-color looked really sharp. It would make a cool sticker, t-shirt, CD-cover or anything actually. Kudos to whoever designed it. It appeared on the web page 'back in the day and looked great! Keep

Trying to compile a new kernel.

1998-12-30 Thread Monte Copeland
This is my first attempt at compiling a new kernel. I downloaded the latest Linux kernel 2.1.132 in hopes that one day I will be able to get my SoundblasterPCI128 sound card to make some noise like music CDs , midi, Real Audio/Video , etc... But that will have to wait because at this time I

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

1998-12-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 03:39:27AM +, Monte Copeland wrote: % echo print something! /dev/lp0 snip Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this is setup this way, do you have more than one

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

1998-12-30 Thread D'jinnie
% lpq Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'Epson ESCP2' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 378 active Unspooler: pid 379 active Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, If your printer is at lp0 that would certainly explain why you

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

1998-12-30 Thread D'jinnie
Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this is setup this way, do you have more than one parallel device? Hmm. I look at my printcap, and by default it's set to lp1. I shall include it for

Re: Web-based email for Debian

1998-12-30 Thread Ivan E. Moore II
I am working (and about ready to upload) on a web based IMAP mail program called IMP. I have a .deb up for download along with an example of what it looks like and how it works. http://www.tdyc.com/~rkrusty/Debian It's still in beta but works really well. I use it when I'm at work and have

Re: Logitech TrackMan Maple+

1998-12-30 Thread Jameson Burt
Martin Schulze wrote: Hmm... my Trackman Marble is a PS/2 device: Section Pointer ProtocolPS/2 Device /dev/mouse EndSection ...and... device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= type=ps2 append=-l \a-zA-Z0-9_.:~/\300-\326\330-\366\370-\377\ (The append= line

installing on cdrom-less box

1998-12-30 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'd like to install debian on a box which lacks a cdrom; I can export the debian cd's via nfs, ftp, whatever. I had heard that you could install debian with floppies and nfs, but haven't been able to find the floppy image(s) to do so. thanks, Chris -

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

1998-12-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
/dev/lp1 is for older kernels, /dev/lp0 for newer kernels. Don't ask me why. On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, D'jinnie wrote: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this is setup this way, do you

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/metapkgname . Is this the plan? I'll try to be sure and document

Re: installing on cdrom-less box

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/dists/stable/main/disks-i386/current/ Your cd will probably have a similar directory. Instructions are in the directory. HTH, Brandon +--- ---+ | Brandon Mitchell * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

1998-12-30 Thread Monte Copeland
D'jinnie wrote: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, You need to edit /etc/printcap and change lp1 to lp0. Not sure why this is setup this way, do you have more than one parallel device? Hmm. I look at my printcap, and by default it's set to lp1. I

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little README/Changelog/etc in /usr/doc/metapkgname . Is this the plan? How about another thought on

Where is libgmodule-1.1.so.3?

1998-12-30 Thread Ed Cogburn
I broke down and upgraded from slink to potato and am now paying for my lack of will. I get 'error loading shared libraries' when I try to run gnome-session. 'Dpkg -S' is no help, I haven't a clue as to what .deb holds this lib, although its got to be gnome related. Any help? TIA --

Re: I've got a problem installing a new Graphic Card (ELSA Gloria Synergy)

1998-12-30 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, Andrea This card use the 3DLabs PERMIDIA 2 Chipset and I don't know how to run an X server from the debian 2 distribution. there is no applicable X server in debian 2. I know that XFree86 3.3.3 provide a new Xserver for 3DLabs Chipsets but where can I find the Debian Package for

Mwave Support?

1998-12-30 Thread Nils
The title pretty much explains this one. But is Mwave at all supported in Linux or is it pretty much in vain to install? Merry Christmas! Nils =O) [EMAIL PROTECTED] You could trouble me for a big glass of shutup! http://youthrage.base.org

argh, disked again

1998-12-30 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
A simple job, stick a 500mb drive in, make a new partition out of spare space, and tar it over. A few minutes in, garbage appears during tar, which i initially attributed to screwy characters in a dos filename. But it seems that instead, it was on some kind of rampage through the rest of my

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

1998-12-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
D'jinnie wrote: Status: cannot open '/dev/lp1' - 'Device not configured', attempt 1, If your printer is at lp0 that would certainly explain why you can't print. However, I have no idea why it would assume lp1, since the default normally is lp0...

Re: spreadsheet

1998-12-30 Thread Giuseppe Sacco
I tried the XLite, found in uunet. I just had a look, but it seemed very good. Bye, Giuseppe Stan Brown wrote: Anyone have a reomendation for a good spreadsheet, under Debian?

Defragging large filesystems

1998-12-30 Thread Eric Gillespie
I know this isn't a Debian-specific question but I'm at home for xmas and I don't have access to the newsgroups here, so forgive me this transgression. I have an 8gig hard drive which I made a single ext2 filesystem to hold my mp3s. While ripping and encoding some of my CDs, the fragmentation

Re: Where are the configuration files for Afterstep?

1998-12-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Dec 1998q, Ian Keith Setford wrote: Try /usr/share/afterstep. That is the system-wide root for the afterstep configuration. HTH. -Ian I know those files are there, but they don't do the basic configuration. I finally discovered where it's lurking; it's in

Trying to install gide

1998-12-30 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I'm trying to install gide using apt-get and ocurrs an error: phantasy:/home/paulo# apt-get install gide Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following NEW packages will be installed:

Re: Trying to install gide

1998-12-30 Thread Steve Lamb
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998 10:03:20 +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: phantasy:/home/paulo# apt-get install libgtk1.1 Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok Sorry, libgtk1.1 is already the newest version 0 packages

Re: [PB] a quiet sound blaster

1998-12-30 Thread Didier Verna
debian writes: debian FYI: You might have a cdrom installed.. But I suspect it is on an IDE debian channel rather then on the IDE channel on the soundcard? You're right. It's on /dev/hdc. I just remember having connected a wire directly from it to the SB. -- / / _

Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

1998-12-30 Thread Robert J. Alexander
I cannot boot any Debian (tecra or whatever) rescue disk on my latest laptop (previous 3 IBM Thinkpads where OK). Really need a solution. Here is the description (in the attachment). Thank you very much. Happy 1999. Bob Alexander [EMAIL PROTECTED]Very dear Debian friends, In the past I have

What are the Dpkg perl modules used for?

1998-12-30 Thread Jim Foltz
Hello I was poking around in the perl5 lib directory and noticed 3 Dpkg modules: List.pm, Packages.pm, and Index.pm. What can they be used for? -- Jim Foltz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
j == john [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: j #!/bin/bash j dynipclient -k j ... j ... j and put a similar script in ip-up.d. Just a thought: When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like contact the dynip

Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?

1998-12-30 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
I can't find the sslftp in the debian non-US archives... Why? Are there any legal problems with it? Or may be it is possible to ftp files securely using the ssltelnet? TIA Wojtek Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Trying to install gide

1998-12-30 Thread Peter Berlau
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:03:20AM +, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, I'm trying to install gide using apt-get and ocurrs an error: [..] Hi, if You using apt-get for installing, updating or upgrading packages, please try: apt-get update package ; apt-get

Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?

1998-12-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
WZ == Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WZ Or may be it is possible to ftp files securely using the WZ ssltelnet? If you have ssh on both hosts, you can use scp, which works basicaly like cp, but over a secure connection. Ciao, Martin

Re: mounting W95 partitions

1998-12-30 Thread Ted Llewellyn
Thanks, that did it. _ () _-- __() Ted Llewellyn ) _-- / /_--/__--- (/ (/ On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: It sounds like you are trying to mount the extended partition itself rather than one of the logical partitions which it contains.

Installation problem: HAMM CD structure

1998-12-30 Thread Pieter Viljoen
Hi After 5 years of NT only, I decided to have a look at Linux again. My old Slackware disk was way outdated so I downloaded Debian. I downloaded SLINK, made a CD copy of the files, installed, got to the point of installing the packages, and then the install failed with dependency errors. So

Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?

1998-12-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 13:57:56 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: I can't find the sslftp in the debian non-US archives... Why? Because noone packaged it. I looked into it a long time ago, and it looked like it was based on fairly old BSD source. As several security vulnerabilities in ftp and

LILO hassles

1998-12-30 Thread Pieter Viljoen
Hi LILO gets to 'LI' and then hangs with the IDE disk light on. I have tried the linear option. The partition is 900 something cylinders (below 1024), and on a SCSI disk. I read that LILO wont work if the Linux partition (or for the matter any partition) is not disk0 or disk1. Is this

Re: Installation problem: HAMM CD structure

1998-12-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
PV == Pieter Viljoen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PV So I downloaded HAMM. To be sure things will go my way, I want to make PV sure the CD directory structure matches the official CD structure PV Note that I am building these CD's on my Office NT box so I cant use PV any Linux CD packaging

Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?

1998-12-30 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On 30 Dec 1998, Martin Bialasinski wrote: WZ == Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: WZ Or may be it is possible to ftp files securely using the WZ ssltelnet? If you have ssh on both hosts, you can use scp, which works basicaly like cp, but over a secure connection. Yes, but

Free SSH (was Re: Is there SSLftp available as a debian package?)

1998-12-30 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 16:33:43 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: Yes, but due to the ssh license I'm not allowed to use the ssh for some purposes without buying a commercial version :-( A free (GPL-ed) implementation of the SSH protocol version 2 is in the works; see

X font fixed missing (was: Re: Hey girls and boys)

1998-12-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 07:52:50PM -0600, me wrote: Hey there! I'm new. I installed Debian 2.1 (frozen) and received a X11 error (both on Intel and Alpha platforms): Fatal server error: could not open defualt font 'fixed' I figured it must have been some mis-configuration on

Re: Trying to compile a new kernel.

1998-12-30 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 09:32:14PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote: /dev/lp1 is for older kernels, /dev/lp0 for newer kernels. Don't ask me why. It is explained in the kernel sources. It has to do with the order of the port addresses in conjunction with traditional BIOS naming. Now the naming is

Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Robert J. Alexander wrote: I cannot boot any Debian (tecra or whatever) rescue disk on my latest laptop (previous 3 IBM Thinkpads where OK). Try the latest rescue/drivers images in incoming (mirrored at llug.sep.bnl.gov). They use the 2.0.36 kernel and are now zImages so

Re: OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?

1998-12-30 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. Instead I've found the string header which defines the string class. Is it OK to use it in new C++ programs, or it is added only for compatibility? Why has it such

Apache, Apache-SSL

1998-12-30 Thread Randy Edwards
Here's my silly question for the day. ;-) Does the non-us SSL version of Apache also require the non-SSL package or is it a standalone replacement for Apache? -- Regards, | [EMAIL PROTECTED] . | http://www.golgotha.net Randy |

Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

1998-12-30 Thread Robert Alexander
Thank you very much Brandon. Good to hear there is some hope ... I tried your .gov site but despite having many 2.1.4 stuff the rescue are only 2.1.3 ... probably will have to try in some more time ... BTW the .gov site is a mirror. I looked for an Incoming directory on ftp.debian.org but no luck

Can't get full capacity of my disk!

1998-12-30 Thread CJ
Hi, I just buy a new hard drive (Maxtor 6.4G). I want to dedicate this new Maxtor drive to linux. So I leave my old hard drive as a master on the first IDE bus (the old drive has DOS/win95), and set my new Maxtor drive as a master also on the second IDE bus. OK, here is the problem.

Re: Apache, Apache-SSL

1998-12-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 10:47:53AM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: : Does the non-us SSL version of Apache also require the non-SSL package or : is it a standalone replacement for Apache? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~]$ dpkg --print-avail apache-ssl Package: apache-ssl Priority: optional Section: non-us/web

Re: OFFTOPIC: How to use strings with libstdc++?

1998-12-30 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've stated that there is no old good String class in libstdc++. Instead I've found the string header which defines the string class. Is it OK to use it in new C++ programs, or it is added only for compatibility? [...]

netdate/screen blanking

1998-12-30 Thread D'jinnie
The battery on my laptop seems to be shot so it doesn't keep the time correctly...when I netdate to my ISP, the screen blanks for some reason...any ideas? (I think this is a hamm version, but I'm not sure, I'm not well enough versed in the mysteries of dpkg to find out :) --- The chief cause of

SMP SCSI resets

1998-12-30 Thread stick
Howdy All! I've finally got my SMP machine spinning both CPU's. (Seems that the MB was jumpered wrong...) However, when I boot the system the Adaptec SCSI Controller gets stuck while resetting. I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option to turn-off SCSI reset.

Re: Debian install failure on laptop. Please help ...

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
On Wed, 30 Dec 1998, Robert Alexander wrote: Thank you very much Brandon. Good to hear there is some hope ... I tried your .gov site but despite having many 2.1.4 stuff the rescue are only 2.1.3 ... probably will have to try in some more time ... BTW the .gov site is a mirror. I looked for

Re: Can't get full capacity of my disk!

1998-12-30 Thread Brandon Mitchell
[ cfdisk reports a 6+ gig drive as 2 gigs ] Two things to check 1) press altf2 to get a terminal and type dmesg to see all the kernel bootup messages. Scroll up using shiftpgup and look for where the kernel detects hdc to verify it works correct. 2) try fdisk from that terminal (fdisk /dev/hdc

RE: SMP SCSI resets

1998-12-30 Thread pat
On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortunately, I've not been able to locate the reference. Could one of you kind folks either point me in the right direction, or even

Changing(forcing) Alt-Fn to Ctrl-Alt-Fn

1998-12-30 Thread stick
Again Howdy! When using the VT's I'd like to block Alt-Fn from being interpreted as a change to antother VT so that the key sequence would be available to the applications. How would that be done? Specifically, I have some DOS apps that I run locally and remotely (via SSH). When the

Re: pkgsel

1998-12-30 Thread Adam Di Carlo
Brandon == Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: With respect to pkgsel, I thought our ultimate idea (not really for slink) was to provide actual empty 'metapackages', which are just normal packages with a whole slew of dependancies and a little README/Changelog/etc in

[dnelson@emsphone.com: Re: [joey@carelia.infodrom.north.de: [lead@gmx.de: limit of mutt]]]

1998-12-30 Thread Marco d'Itri
-- ciao, Marco ---BeginMessage--- In the last episode (Dec 29), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: but than, i4ve wanted to view into my debian-devel-mbox mutt ran and ran -showing sorting mail (the swap-space decreased so i4ve added a swapfile) - after waiting about three hours i killed mutt (the

Re: LILO hassles

1998-12-30 Thread Tongyu Wang
I had similar problem before. My setup is similar to yours: NT on /dev/hda1 and Linux on /dev/hdb1. I use NT boot loader to choose which partition to boot. To solve the problem, I boot from a Linux boot floppy and login as root. Run lilo (this rewrite the boot sector). Reboot to NT and use

Re: SMP SCSI resets

1998-12-30 Thread stick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : I seem to remember reading somewhere a LILO/boot command-line option to turn-off SCSI reset. Unfortunately, I've not been able to locate the reference.

modem answering to a different song?

1998-12-30 Thread Colin Telmer
Has anyone been able to get a modem to answer to a distinct phone ring? My phone company allows one to have up to four numbers on one line each with a distinct ring and I would like to set up a fax server that answers only on one of these numbers. Any ideas? Cheers, Colin. -- Colin Telmer,

Re: APM on Linux?

1998-12-30 Thread Jinsong Zhao
I read the docu on APM. Seems like it is useful for laptop and may not be for desktop? Suppose I can turn the system into standby mode, how can I turn the hard drive spin down? The question boils down to: how can save maximum energy when the computer is idling? I mainly use the computer after

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-30 Thread john
Martin Bialasinski writes: When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like contact the dynip service to tell them I am going offline doesn't work. A while back someone suggested hacking pppd to run

Re: modem answering to a different song?

1998-12-30 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 01:07:57PM -0500, Colin Telmer wrote: : Has anyone been able to get a modem to answer to a distinct phone ring? : My phone company allows one to have up to four numbers on one line each : with a distinct ring and I would like to set up a fax server that answers : only

Re: SMP SCSI resets

1998-12-30 Thread pat
On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : Setting up LILO isn't going to be a problem...just couldn't remember the option... i didn't know the option either before your post. Ps: to find things like that see the kernel sources. for example aic7xxx=no_reset (along with all other

login problems

1998-12-30 Thread Paulussen Edmond
Last week I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 Everything went (quite) well. I installed Linux, windowmanager, Netscape, connection with my ISP,... and got it working. Since yesterday I am unable to login. After login (with correct username password) I get following error message: login [128]

adding network stuff; easy way?

1998-12-30 Thread Eugene Sevinian
Hi all, Just now I have installed debian on another machine copying whole system from my home computer by cp -ax / /new-disk. As the new system should work at thin ethernet based LAN I have to add (or reconfigure) network stuff to it. How should I do that? Hope it is possible to do without too

Re: SMP SCSI resets

1998-12-30 Thread stick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] On 30-Dec-98, [EMAIL PROTECTED] took time to write : Setting up LILO isn't going to be a problem...just couldn't remember the option... i didn't know the option either before your post. Ps: to find things

ls dev_task

1998-12-30 Thread Mosl Roland
Just installed Debian 2.0 on a TI Extensa 570 Partitons: 480 MB Win 95 440 MB Linux 112 MB Linux Swap But after booting, and login root, I get always only rev_task at ls At installing from CD-ROM (this notebook has CD _or_ floppy) I copied the install folder to the win 95 partition, started

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1998-12-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Tue, 29 Dec 1998 12:56:37 -0500, you wrote: The necessary package for telling Debian that you've got a locally built mail-transport-agent installed is equivs. Thanks. The equivs package only seems to be available from http://www.debian.org and not from any mirror sites. Or at least that was

Binary-cat Console Junkedness... [(Sort of) OFF-TOPIC]

1998-12-30 Thread Ryan King
Knowing the answer to this question doesn't matter much, but I am curious... Why does a VC go bonkies when you cat a binary file from it? What doesn't make sense to me is that only some of the chars display wrong, and that it's only the display that is ruined, but the actual characters are

Re: login problems

1998-12-30 Thread Jim Foltz
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 07:23:56PM +0100, Paulussen Edmond wrote: Last week I installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 Everything went (quite) well. I installed Linux, windowmanager, Netscape, connection with my ISP,... and got it working. Since yesterday I am unable to login. After login (with

Re: ip-up ip-down

1998-12-30 Thread Jim Foltz
On Wed, Dec 30, 1998 at 12:11:49PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Bialasinski writes: When ip-down is run, the ip-layer is already down, so there is no way to make contact to hosts over the link. So some programm like contact the dynip service to tell them I am going offline doesn't

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