Re: /etc/lynx.cfg -> ~/.lynxrc

1999-04-02 Thread Jeremy
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hamish Moffatt dixit: > > P.S. `lynx -cfg=~/.lynxrc' on the command line works fine, how can I add > that to the .bash_profile? I copied the /etc/lynx.cfg to ~/.lynx_cfg and changed it how I wanted it. Then, it's simply a matter of adding "export L

float matrices under MuPAD (was: What DO you lose with Linux ???)

1999-04-02 Thread Mark Phillips
> I do my symbolic math with MuPAD 3.4 instead of MathCad 7.0 but I > must be dilusional there also. On a total tangent --- have you worked out a way of getting matrices with floating point arithmetic under MuPAD? I haven't been able to find any in the documentation. Cheers, Mark. _/~~

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-02 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 2 Apr 1999 23:12:15 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >I thought the original comment was that in general people should not send >large emails, but rather send URLs. This is in person to person email, >not mailing lists. And he did speak of th

isdnctrl dialmode

1999-04-02 Thread Bon Lam
when I set 'isdnctrl dialmode' to 'manual', it says that my kernel don't have/support this option. any suggestions? it's mainly to stop autodialing to the isp when I just want to connect to my LAN and it's irritating.

Re: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > > > deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink \ > > > > unstable main > > > > > > What's the difference between the above and: > > > > > > deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gno

Re: I really need help!

1999-04-02 Thread homega
Nuno Donato dixit: > I really need sme help here. If you can, please help me. > I want to know if there is a kind of autoexec.bat file in > Linux, so that each times it boots, it automatically > executes some commands. > I need this because I have downloaded Blender(3d Software), > and i must in

I really need help!

1999-04-02 Thread Nuno Donato
I really need sme help here. If you can, please help me. I want to know if there is a kind of autoexec.bat file in Linux, so that each times it boots, it automatically executes some commands. I need this because I have downloaded Blender(3d Software), and i must install symbolic links. But becau

Re: Help on dselect

1999-04-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
johannes nortje wrote: > > Good day sir > > I have a problem, I installed Linux on my personal computer but, when I > load dselect to install the software I got with the Linux cd's I don't > have the option multi_cd in "Access" to load this software. When I use > the cd-rom choise it ask me for

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

1999-04-02 Thread Ed Cogburn
Stephen Pitts wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 08:51:22PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > > > > I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and > > AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any > > other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one o

Re: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink \ > > > unstable main > > > > What's the difference between the above and: > > > > deb http://www.debian.org/~jules/gnome-stage-2 unstable main > > > > What should one use for a

IMM.o driver module for Zip Drives

1999-04-02 Thread Rob Lundahl
Hello; I am compiling the imm.o module for external Zip drives. The new drives do not work with the ppa.o module. If anyone is interested in the compiled module let me know. Rob Blue Star Ranch _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com add

Re: Microsoft Announces MS-Linux

1999-04-02 Thread frankie
It's April 2nd mate. Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > Microsoft Announces MS-Linux > > REDMOND, Wash., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today > announced the forthcoming release of MS-Linux(R), a new version > of the well-known Linux(R) operating system designed for the > enterprise. > > The f

Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local

1999-04-02 Thread Bob Hilliard
Christopher Swingley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Debian uses the /etc/rc0.d -> /etc/rc6.d folders for links to actual > scripts in /etc/init.d. When the boot process reaches a particular run > level (say level 2), it processes all the links in the /etc/rc2.d > directory, in order. If the l

Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local

1999-04-02 Thread John Hasler
Christopher Swingley writes: > So, to answer your question, the way I stop the crap from running is > to either uninstall the package, or simply change the name of each link > so that it starts with DISABLE instead of K or S. You're doing this the hard way. man update-rc.d. > To start a new serv

Re: modem & setserial (auto dialup out there?)

1999-04-02 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi, On Fri, 02 Apr, 1999 à 06:05:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First: I could swear there was a script floating around > to have your machine dial up your ISP & email the IP > address to you. I thought it was in an early issue of > Linux Gazette. Does anyone know if & where I might find

Re: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > > > So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian > > > package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have > > > indeed possible. > > > > Are you using apt?

X & locales problems.

1999-04-02 Thread José
Hello, I have a slink/hamm mixed system (my slink cd's are on their way). I am having some problems with locale and X. For example, when I run WPrefs I get the following error message: WPrefs warning: X server does not support locale Them some complaining about fonts (and WPrefs refuses to run

Re: Apt: WAS:: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Apr, Pollywog wrote about "Apt: WAS:: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?" > > On 02-Apr-99 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: >> On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: >> >>> So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian >>> package, by any chance? I could recompile the source,

Re: ddd and glibc2.1

1999-04-02 Thread shaul
Perhaps using the smotif (or lesstiff) version will let you work with it ? > Ever since upgrading to glibc2.1 my ddd has been segfaulting upon > startup... anyone know how this is doing in the 'fix' line? > I see that it's been reported to the buglist, but no recent > info... >

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 07:48:27PM -0600, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my video > card; 3.3.2.1 does not. This means that my X display is now > (mal)functioning at 320x200 -- I can see the lower right quadrant of an > xterm. The machin

Apt: WAS:: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Apr-99 Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: > >> So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian >> package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have >> indeed possible. > > Are you using apt? Good. Then, put t

unable to load isofs during install

1999-04-02 Thread Marlon Urias
I looked and looked and found no isofs module to install in the install routine. I even did a find on the cd and found nothing. Very confusing. The way I eventually solved this problem was by copying the isofs.o module from a RedHat installation I had on another drive. I added the path to modules

Re: Unsuccesfully mounting cdrom.

1999-04-02 Thread W. Paul Mills
/dev/hdc should be correct. You might try putting hdc=cdrom in at the Boot Prompt. It is sometimes necessary to tell the interface parameters with "idex=base,ctl,irq", but this is generally only necessary if you have nonstandard hardware or IRQ. See the BOOTPROMPT-HOWTO. Jaakko Tuosa <[EMAIL

Re: Message from cron

1999-04-02 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
Christian Dysthe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I keep getting this message from cron daily: > > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: > /usr/sbin/sendmail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.root 777 changed to > root.root 4755 > > I have not touched the permissions for sendmail. I am using exim, so >

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Bruce Sass
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > So the scenario is that some proprietary, closed source, program is what > > you want, and that it has been built with RH in mind. To be forced into > > dual booting RH to run it would mean that the software relies

Re: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-02 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > > So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian > > package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have > > indeed possible. > > Are you using apt? Good. Then, put the following line in your > /etc/apt/sou

Re: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: > So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian > package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have > indeed possible. Are you using apt? Good. Then, put the following line in your /etc/apt/sources.list fil

RE: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

1999-04-02 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, David Nelson wrote: > Do you reckon it would work with my ATI-TV card? > > And will xawtv support PAL/SECAM, etc? When I was looking at TV cards, the ATI was not supported, and there were no plans to support it due to NDA requirements, I believe. PAL/SECAM is an option for x

Re: Do We Need a New Evangelist?

1999-04-02 Thread bruce
Hi, my DSL just started working again. I've been off the net since Tuesday 9AM, except for an RF modem that was too slow to do much. Keith wanted to see my answer to George's mail, which I sent to him only. Here it is. Thanks Bruce To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > On the other hand, why

Re: Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
As a wild guess, how do you enter the path where your linux kernel image is? Hope it's not C:\Debian or whatever like that. You have to use block devices, such as /dev/hda(b,c,d) You can get information on partitioning from fdisk. For example, if C is /dev/hda1, then your C:\Debian becomes /dev/hda

Microsoft Announces MS-Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Mike Nachlinger
Microsoft Announces MS-Linux REDMOND, Wash., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. today announced the forthcoming release of MS-Linux(R), a new version of the well-known Linux(R) operating system designed for the enterprise. The flexible "grassroots" operating system, now with the qualit

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Bala Iyer
I did succeed in renaming the file from Linux.htm to Linux. I am back to from where I started. All the required files are at C:\Debian. When I type "Install" the same message comes back. "Image file not found. Please enter name of kernet image file followed by optional command line parameters for L

Re: Slink upgrade problems

1999-04-02 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 09:53:24AM -0800, Mike Nachlinger wrote: > > Got a mixed slink/potatoe system. > Bought the CheapBytes 2.1 disks. > > apt-cdrom add outputs; > > Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ > Unmounting CD-ROM > Please insert a Disc in the drive and press any key Mounting CD-ROM > Id

mail oddity

1999-04-02 Thread James Starr
Hi all, I'm having a strange problem with my mail from debian-user. I received 400+ mails this morning of which approx. 30% were duplicates. I also received 57 repeats, which were from Monday. Has anyone else seen this? JStarr

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 Installation

1999-04-02 Thread Marlon Urias
I looked and looked and found no isofs module to install in the install routine. I even did a find on the cd and found nothing. Very confusing. The way I eventually solved this problem was by copying the isofs.o module from a RedHat installation I had on another drive. I added the path to modules.

Re: Script to check whether modem telephone line in use --- how?

1999-04-02 Thread G. Crimp
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 06:42:40PM +0930, Mark Phillips wrote: [major snip] > a while. But from what Bud Rogers has said, it would seem the abort > should happen straight away.) > Yes, it should. I don't have problems with interfering with other modems here, but there are other people

RE: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

1999-04-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Apr, David Nelson wrote about "RE: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian" > Do you reckon it would work with my ATI-TV card? Nope. See the bottom of http://roadrunner.swansea.linux.org.uk/v4l.shtml -- Brian - "Never crit

Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local

1999-04-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Apr, Christopher Swingley wrote about "Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local" > [excellent narrative of startup scripts] > > There is one last directory named /etc/rc.boot that has a couple scripts > in it that run when the system first comes up. I've never messed with > it, but it's the

Slink upgrade problems

1999-04-02 Thread Mike Nachlinger
Got a mixed slink/potatoe system. Bought the CheapBytes 2.1 disks. apt-cdrom add outputs; Using CD-ROM mount point /cdrom/ Unmounting CD-ROM Please insert a Disc in the drive and press any key Mounting CD-ROM Identifying.. apt-cdrom: error in loading shared libraries /usr/local/lib/libpthread.so

Re: Anyone help set up Iomega ZIP drive please?

1999-04-02 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Apr 1999q, Conrado Badenas wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > I've compiled in SCSI support, SCSI Disk support, and IOMEGA parallel > > support (which I think is unnecessary). None of these are modules and I > > don't want to use modules if I can avoid it. > [snip] > If you don't like mod

Help Installing Linux

1999-04-02 Thread Bala Iyer
I did succeed in changing the file name to Linux from Linux.htm Still I am back to the same position. When on dos C\Debian (This is where all the required files are kept) I type "Install", as suggested to me last week,I get the same messages: Image file not found. Please enter name of kernel image

Re: prog. end of the boot ? rc.local

1999-04-02 Thread Christopher Swingley
Debian uses the /etc/rc0.d -> /etc/rc6.d folders for links to actual scripts in /etc/init.d. When the boot process reaches a particular run level (say level 2), it processes all the links in the /etc/rc2.d directory, in order. If the link starts with a K then it executes the link with the stop p

tunnelling ssh over https proxy

1999-04-02 Thread thomas lakofski
hi, before i try and do all the legwork on this one, i just wanted to check that no-one had a prerolled solution to this one: i'm trying to let myself connect to my linux box from work through our Apache proxy's https tunneling. i've set up a port redirector that points port 443 on the box to 22

tunnelling ssh over https proxy

1999-04-02 Thread thomas lakofski
hi, before i try and do all the legwork on this one, i just wanted to check that no-one had a prerolled solution to this one: i'm trying to let myself connect to my linux box from work through our Apache proxy's https tunneling. i've set up a port redirector that points port 443 on the box to 22

Re: graphic "df" type of util for Linux?

1999-04-02 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 02 Apr 1999 00:20:41 CST, Matt Garman wrote: > > Until I can afford a new hard drive, I find myself typing "df" often > to see how much free space I have on each partition. > > I think it would be nice to have a little utility that displays graphs > of free space per partition, and update

Re: hamm to slink with upgrade

1999-04-02 Thread Marc Haber
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 12:23:56 GMT, you wrote: >I have my cdrom not on /cdrom, but on /mnt/cdrom. /etc/fstab shows >this. However, apt-cdrom tries to mount /cdrom and fails. /etc/apt/apt.conf: Acquire::cdrom::Mount "/mnt/cdrom"; fixes this. Greetings Marc -- -

prog. end of the boot ? rc.local

1999-04-02 Thread Attila Csosz
I'd like to start a program at the end of the boot, where to should I put it? ( under redhat was rc.local ) Where could I study the debian boot sequence? ( doc, links? ) How could I eliminate squid and apache daemons? ( they are started at boot ) Thanks Attila Debian 2.1/2.0.36

RE: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-02 Thread Pollywog
On 02-Apr-99 William R Pentney wrote: > > So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian > package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have > 0.30 installed and would rather upgrade it the "correct" way if > indeed possible. > > - Bill check here:

Re: modem & setserial (auto dialup out there?)

1999-04-02 Thread John Hasler
Judith E. Bush writes: > I'd write it myself, except I'm frustrated with my ppp dial up script as > it is. Have you tried running pppconfig to set up ppp and then using pon and poff? You are obviously using vanilla PAP authentication. With Debian there is no need to write ornate ppp scripts. --

GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-02 Thread William R Pentney
So, does anyone know if and where I could find GNOME 1.0 as a Debian package, by any chance? I could recompile the source, but I already have 0.30 installed and would rather upgrade it the "correct" way if indeed possible. - Bill

graphic "df" type of util for Linux?

1999-04-02 Thread Dean Carpenter
Look at the MRTG package. It's mainly for looking at router throughputs, but it will work admirable for things like diskspace, cpuload etc. It's in http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/devel/mrtg.html Also, look at BigBrother and NoCol. They aren't Debian packages, but do similar th

Unsuccesfully mounting cdrom.

1999-04-02 Thread Jaakko Tuosa
I'm installing Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 (hamm). A problem occured running dselect and choosing access/cd-rom. Program is obviously unable to mount /dev/hdc (my IDE/ATAPI-cdrom drive is master in second IDE). Dselect says: "Insert the CD-ROM and type block device name []:" /dev/hdc, I write (or /dev/hd

Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 03:07:37PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > > I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither > > my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE64 work under Debian (2.2.4 2.1) > > I think it has to do with the way my

inetd produces odd log entries

1999-04-02 Thread Pollywog
I made some changes in inetd.conf, commenting out things I did not need, and now I get these entries in my log. What do they mean? Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Apr 2 15:11:16 lilypad inetd[32743]: pop-3/tcp: bind: Address already in use Apr 2 15:11:16 lilypad inetd[32743]: ftp/tc

Re: Upgrading slink -> potato

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 09:34:07AM +0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I need some information about upgrading from slink to potato since I need > to use some new (networking) features implemented in kernel 2.2.x. > > I have been using slink quite for a while (before its release) . > T

Re: writing c/c++ programs under debian

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 04:54:30AM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am looking to start writing c/c++ programs under debian. > The question is what utilitys are availble to maintain and write > projects. > also are there any online ducumentation about the options. > I also interested about how to wr

Re: enlightenment/slink .xinitrc

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 01:19:35PM +0100, Vincent Murphy wrote: > could someone who is running gnome on top of enlightenment on top of X > send me their .xinitrc or .xsession please? > > i'm having trouble starting gnome. here's what i'm using: > > #!/bin/bash > /usr/bin/X11/enlightenment > ex

EGCS question

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
Reply-To: Hi! Yesterday I spent 3 1/2 hours debugging code like this: #include SDL_Surface *screen; int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { SDL_Surface *screen; screen = SDL_SetVideoMode(640,480,8,0); drawRedSquare(); } void drawRedSquare() { // do something

Re: Kensington Scroll Mouse

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 12:29:57AM -1000, Shawn Nguyen wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a kensington scroll mouse and was wondering if there's anyway > to get it to work at all in X? If not, is there a mouse out there that > I could buy which would let me use that feature on it in X? I guess I >

Re: elm filter?

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:47:52PM +0200, E.L. Meijer Eric" wrote: > Hi all, > > I am receiving mail on a SGI system, that has no procmail, but the elm > filter program. I would like to use the same thing on debian, but I > cannot seem to find it. Is it anywhere available in slink? > > Thanks,

Re: need to scan drive thoroughly

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 01:36:17AM -0800, Lev Lvovsky wrote: > Hello, > > well, if any of you are wondering, I was able to get debian installed on > the system by low level formatting the IDE drive from BIOS (LILO kept > giving crc errors upon uncompressing Linux). > Now I have another problem..

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Mar 31, 1999 at 08:51:22PM -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and > AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any > other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the > goals is being able to rea

Re: apac i740

1999-04-02 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:15:13PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > My friends has got an APAC i740 3D AGP with 8MB. > It seems to me that Xfree86 does not support this card. > > Has anyone been successful with this card? > > thx. > > ___

Re: alsa

1999-04-02 Thread Holger Mense
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Craig Hancock wrote: > Hello everyone I just recently downloaded alsa and I used the alsaconf > program and it works beautifully now I am stuck I am not sure what to do > next or what command I need to run if some can assit I would greatly > appricate it Subscribe to the alsa

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-02 Thread BENJAMIN FARRELL
-Original Message- From: Robert V. MacQuarrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian-User-Mailing-List Cc: BENJAMIN FARRELL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 31 March 1999 08:00 Subject: Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ??? >>> Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client f

netscape library problem (! libc5)

1999-04-02 Thread Vincent Murphy
i'm running slink with 2.2.5, and using enlightenment 0.15.4 as a window manager. last night i did apt-get install navigator-smotif-407 and it went without a hitch. but when i try to run netscape i get this: $ netscape /usr/bin/X11/netscape: line 64: 684 Illegal Instruction L

Re: Sound: DMA (output) timed out - IRQ/DRQ config error?

1999-04-02 Thread Vincent Murphy
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 05:17:04PM -0800, Ramiel Givergis wrote: > I have spent about a week trying to figure out why neither > my Creative Labs SB16 or AWE64 work under Debian (2.2.4 2.1) > I think it has to do with the way my motherboard handles the > irq's and pnp etc. i have EXACTLY the same

RE: Epson Stylus Color 640/slink+potato

1999-04-02 Thread Ted Harding
On 02-Apr-99 Jim Gould wrote: > I'm using the following: > > lprng 3.5.3-0.1 > magicfilter 1.2-28 > cdlabelgen 1.1.3-1 > gv 3.5.8-11 > > Running cdlabelgen with the proper arguments gets me a PS file which > shows up quite nicely in gv. No problem there. The problem appears > when I print the l

Help on dselect

1999-04-02 Thread johannes nortje
Good day sir I have a problem, I installed Linux on my personal computer but, when I load dselect to install the software I got with the Linux cd's I don't have the option multi_cd in "Access" to load this software. When I use the cd-rom choise it ask me for the device block name that I don't kno

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:47:30PM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hamish> Wrong solution. Users should not have to adapt to technology > Hamish> (within reason); the technology should allow users to send > H

Re: modem & setserial (auto dialup out there?)

1999-04-02 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I have written script like that, and it's on my homepage (URL below). Basicly keeps pppd alive and emails you IPs. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 h

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-02 Thread Randy Edwards
> So Hewson makes some good points. Linus still isn't ready for the > desktop, at least for the masses. But it will be Tomorrow. So stay > tuned I agree -- a lot of his points, particularly about the lack of mainstream apps, are valid. I'd also like to see more hardware support for odd-bal

RE: Distribution

1999-04-02 Thread David Nelson
Try http://www.debian.org. It's there for downloading if you want (50 to 250 Meg, depending on what you want... or more!) or there are links to where you can order it. Price: a few dollars to receive it on CD, but the OS is free. HTH, David -Message d'origine- De: khaled samy [SMTP:[

Re: Distribution

1999-04-02 Thread dyer
khaled samy wrote: > Dear Gentlemen! > > I heard about your quite amazing OS and had the following questions > about it: > -I'd like to get it; can I get it from you? > -What are the conditions if I buy it? > -May you send me some information to my e-mail address at [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Unsu

Distribution

1999-04-02 Thread khaled samy
Dear Gentlemen! I heard about your quite amazing OS and had the following questions about it: -I'd like to get it; can I get it from you? -What are the conditions if I buy it? -May you send me some information to my e-mail address at [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: modem & setserial (auto dialup out there?)

1999-04-02 Thread james
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 06:05:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First: I could swear there was a script floating around > to have your machine dial up your ISP & email the IP > address to you. I thought it was in an early issue of > Linux Gazette. Does anyone know if & where I might find >

modem & setserial (auto dialup out there?)

1999-04-02 Thread debian
First: I could swear there was a script floating around to have your machine dial up your ISP & email the IP address to you. I thought it was in an early issue of Linux Gazette. Does anyone know if & where I might find such a creature? I'd write it myself, except I'm frustrated with my ppp dia

Re: Anyone help set up Iomega ZIP drive please?

1999-04-02 Thread Conrado Badenas
Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've compiled in SCSI support, SCSI Disk support, and IOMEGA parallel > support (which I think is unnecessary). None of these are modules and I > don't want to use modules if I can avoid it. I compiled for 2.2.1 with these options concerning modules, ZIP, printer, and par

Re: RedHat -> Debian

1999-04-02 Thread Sean
Check out the instructions found here: http://www.geocities.com/ResearchTriangle/3328/rh5todeb-howto.txt I don't know how well it would work, but it seems to be pretty straight forward. I just wonder if it wouldn't be easier in may respects to simply do a complete install of Debian after backi

RedHat -> Debian

1999-04-02 Thread Alex toropov
Hi, Has anybody successful experience in moving from RedHat dist. (with only base packages installed) to debian without full reinstalling ? May be you can give just some basic tips (steps) to perfome this. Thaks in advance, alex ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] )

Lib/prog problem?

1999-04-02 Thread wcaskey
On a whim I decided to upgrade everything on my system to what was in the unstable directories of dselect instead of the stable ones. Unfortunately this lead to a few problems with my programs, as several significant libraries changed. Qps is really the only thing that concerns me; every time I o

RE: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

1999-04-02 Thread David Nelson
Do you reckon it would work with my ATI-TV card? And will xawtv support PAL/SECAM, etc? All the best, David Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: I've got a Hauppauge WinTV card now working under Debian with kernel 2.2.1. I can't give details now because I'm at work (different machine). The trick was to g

Re: Help with Netscape

1999-04-02 Thread james
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 07:38:03PM +1000, Shao Zhang wrote: > In altavista or yahoo, if I search using 2 words, and click > submit, the fist page retrieves ok, and when I click for next 20 entries, > it truncates the second word and returns no matches found. This happens > with or without I e

RE: ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV graphic card + ATI-TV tuner card setup

1999-04-02 Thread David Nelson
Hi Dave, So far, it seems to come up with the right server each time... As a matter of interest, exactly what did you tweak in Xservers? David -Message d'origine- De: Dave Blears [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: vendredi 2 avril 1999 11:26 À: David Nelson Objet: Re: ATI 3D Pro Tu

Help with Netscape

1999-04-02 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am having some strange problems with Netscape. In altavista or yahoo, if I search using 2 words, and click submit, the fist page retrieves ok, and when I click for next 20 entries, it truncates the second word and returns no matches found. This happens with or without I enabl

Newbie setting up StarOffice...

1999-04-02 Thread David Nelson
Hi there! I just installed slink and installed StarOffice (i.e. installed the installer, fetched the necessary files from the StarOffice ftp site, installed them with the installer). On attempting to run swriter, I get the message "Could not open XPrinter Please make sure your XPPATH is set corr

ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV graphic card + ATI-TV tuner card setup

1999-04-02 Thread David Nelson
Hullo there! I have an ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV with 8 Mb RAM and an ATI-TV tuner card. I just installed slink and X with the ATI Mach64 server for the 3rd time (don't ask why 3 times). Second time around, X came up with a virtual desktop of 1600 x 1200 and a screen resolution of 800 by 600. Perfec

Re: where is ldd ?

1999-04-02 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:-> "Bob" == Bob Nielsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the same version of ldso on a slink machine and it IS there. I > don't think there is any reason to file a bug report. I don't know what > happened on your system, but you might try reinstalling from the cd. > You cou

Epson Stylus Color 640/slink+potato

1999-04-02 Thread Jim Gould
I'm using the following: lprng 3.5.3-0.1 magicfilter 1.2-28 cdlabelgen 1.1.3-1 gv 3.5.8-11 Running cdlabelgen with the proper arguments gets me a PS file which shows up quite nicely in gv. No problem there. The problem appears when I print the label out -- the very last couple of lines of the p

test

1999-04-02 Thread Paul Lowe
this is a test

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-02 Thread Richard Harran
See bug #274960375892 filed against 'car'. Stefan Nobis wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hamish Moffatt > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hamish> Wrong solution. Users should not have to adapt to technology > Hamish> (within reason); the technology should allow users to sen

Re: graphic "df" type of util for Linux?

1999-04-02 Thread Mitch Blevins
Paul Lowe wrote: > > I don't think it is packaged for Debian yet, but you can use > > http://nui.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at/gfdisk/ > > GNOME has a little applet for the panel that does EXACTLY what you want. > But...you'll > have to install gnome Yes, ignore the crap I said... I meant gdiskfree,

Re: Communicator-4.51 weirdness

1999-04-02 Thread Joey Hess
George Bonser wrote: > I take it all back ... for some reason it all works now :-/ I've noticed this type of thing from time to time with netscape. Sometimes it will refuse to let me paste from it into one xterm, and will paste fine into another. It's quite goofed up somehow.. Nothing specific to

Re: graphic "df" type of util for Linux?

1999-04-02 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > Until I can afford a new hard drive, I find myself typing "df" often > to see how much free space I have on each partition. > > I think it would be nice to have a little utility that displays graphs > of free space per partition, and updates regularly (a graphic

Re: Help with printers

1999-04-02 Thread Jameson Burt
I couldn't initially share my printer when I upgraded from hamm to slink; in fact, I couldn't even print from my local printer. To solve my problem, I decided it was a good time to switch from the lpr package to the more complex/complete/modern lprng package. I could then print from my local compu

graphic "df" type of util for Linux?

1999-04-02 Thread Matt Garman
Until I can afford a new hard drive, I find myself typing "df" often to see how much free space I have on each partition. I think it would be nice to have a little utility that displays graphs of free space per partition, and updates regularly (a graphic output of df, if you will). I'm visualizi

ldconfig errors

1999-04-02 Thread Pollywog
When I do 'ldconfig' I get these errors. The files named are files and not links. Should I remove them? lilypad:/home/pollywog# ldconfig ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libtcpwrapGK.so.1 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/libomnithread.so.2 is not a symlink ldconfig: warning: /usr/lib/li

Re: Linus Torvalds at the Pearly Gates

1999-04-02 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Jonathan Hayward wrote: > > 1: XFree86 was downgraded from 3.3.3 to 3.3.2.1. 3.3.3 supports my > video Apt will not downgrade any package, I don't believe. You mean that the X package overwrote your manually installed copy. (Not to nitpick, just trying to clarify so we are a

Re: April Fools?

1999-04-02 Thread Bud Rogers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is it just me, the current date, or am I seeing a bunch of messages come > throught that I could have sworn I'd seen previously? Gee I was just about to ask the same thing... -- Bud Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sirinet.net/~budr/zamm.html

ctrl-H -> backspace FAQ

1999-04-02 Thread Seth M. Landsman
Greets, So this has to be a FAQ., and I know I've solved this before, but can't remember how. My new laptop, a Solo 2500, under X (using the neomagic server) has the backspace and del keys doing odd things (forward deletion or ~'s depending on the program) and ctrl-H doing the proper back

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