Re: Mutt 0.95.4-0.1 and slang

1999-04-04 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: > > Hi there, > > > > I'm currently using Mutt 0.93i and would like to upgrade to 0.95.4-0.1, > > which I ftp'ed. The problem is that the dependencies for it are > > slang1 (<< 1.3) and slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0), where

Maito: Getting Navigator to use external mailer

1999-04-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, how can I get Navigator (4.51) to use my (or any!) external mailer (XFmail) when I click on a mailto: link? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe UIN 3945810 Date: 04-Apr-99 Time: 18:21:07 This message was s

RE: netscape crashes on mail-to

1999-04-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, if you ftp to ftp.netscape.com and go to: /pub/communicator/4.51/english/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/navigator_standalone/ I beleive you would find what you are looking for. On 04-Apr-99 Pollywog wrote: > > > I want to try 4.51 but cannot find a glibc version, only libc5. > > -- > Andrew >

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:06:47 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: >What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get >into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access to >the other's machine, due to dynamic PP

Re: Linux installation help

1999-04-04 Thread Cyril Heck
>> >On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Cyril Heck wrote: >> > >> >> I have an old CD of debian 1.3 and am trying to install packages from >> there. >> >> I just installed debian 2.1 after being downloaded from the internet. >> >> This was my first install but everything seemed allright. >> >> >> >> The problem i

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Vaidhy: Thanks for all your help. The the Net-3-HOWTO combined with some info I found from my local LUG's mail archives got me going. Everything I had seemed to be okay, I just added: route add default gw ${GATEWAY} eth0 to my /etc/init.d/network file and I was able to ping my nameservers. I'

Re: top like drive usage utility?

1999-04-04 Thread ktb
Chris Brown wrote: > > Hello everyone, > Our drives have occasionally been going nuts with disk access. > They would for no reason just start reading the disk and go solid for > 10 minutes. Is there a utility like top to check for who or what is > accessing the disks? > Thanks, > Chri

Re: Configure Mouse

1999-04-04 Thread Kent West
Greg Scharrer wrote: > > First, thank you for the quick response. I ran gpmconfig and that seemed to > work: it found the mouse and detected the motion and button clicks. Is > there a program I can use to test this? I also edited > /etc/vga/libvga.config. I commented out the mouse unconfigured lin

Re: netscape crashes on mail-to

1999-04-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Apr-99 George Bonser wrote: > > The recent 4.51 FINALLY fixed that problem for me. > > Is there a glibc version of 4.51? I could not find one. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

New install: net unreachable

1999-04-04 Thread Chris Brown
Please help, this is a newbie being stupid question I've done several slink installs that have worked fine. I'm trying to install it on my laptop now and am having problems with the system once its installed. Basically everything seems fine but I can't use the network (3c589 pcmcia ethernet

Re: Configure Mouse

1999-04-04 Thread Greg Scharrer
First, thank you for the quick response. I ran gpmconfig and that seemed to work: it found the mouse and detected the motion and button clicks. Is there a program I can use to test this? I also edited /etc/vga/libvga.config. I commented out the mouse unconfigured line and uncommented the mouse ps/2

Re: Good MP3 encoder

1999-04-04 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Does anyone know of a good MP3 encoder for linux? I have an old > copy of 8hz-mp3, but it takes like 10hrs to rip and encode a cd. > I'd prefer an open source encoder, but am not opposed to a > commercial one. I just want to get one that is fast. Look at ftp://wopr.c

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi Mark, Couple of things. /etc/init.d/network is not your normal stop, start, restart stuff.. It just executes a series of command. your resolv.conf should have search your.domain.com nameserver 1 nameserver 2 nameserver 3 .. For eg, I call my network at home loonys.net. so my resolv.conf wi

RE: netscape crashes on mail-to

1999-04-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Apr-99 Kathy Miles wrote: > Been away from the list for awhile and missed everybody. Running Debian > 2.1 and everything is pretty stable except one annoying problem in > netscape, and it happens in every version of netscape (4.5, older, newer, > communicator, navigator, mozilla) Whenever I

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-04-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
John Hasler wrote: > > Ed C. writes: > > If a compromise is not possible, then an 'install-rc' tool *accepted by > > all dists* would be the only other choice, and it would essentially have > > to know the details about every dist that conforms to the LSB. Writing > > (and maintaining) the thing

Re: Trying to play a game....

1999-04-04 Thread Robert Rati
I had that error too. You can't run Marlstrom in 24 bpp, it must be in 16 or less. That should fix your problem. It took me a while to get it fixed, so this might not be the answer that fixes that one problem. Rob On Sun, 4 Apr 19

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread JW Park
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 10:42:58 -0700, you wrote: >Gary Singleton wrote: > >[..] >> As an aside, this person sends .doc files regularly too; luckily >> we're not susceptible to their evils. > >Don't get mad: get even. I think public needs to be educated on the issue but the marketing effort has been

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. > take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it > like this. > [config info snipped] > > This code brings up the network. you might want t

Re: Good MP3 encoder

1999-04-04 Thread frankie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good MP3 encoder for linux? I have an old copy > of 8hz-mp3, but it takes like 10hrs to rip and encode a cd. I'd prefer > an open source encoder, but am not opposed to a commercial one. I just > want to get one that is fast. > > TIA, > > chri

Re: Configure Mouse

1999-04-04 Thread Kent West
ktb wrote: > > Greg Scharrer wrote: > > > > I just installed Debian 2.1 on /dev/hdb1 (/dev/hda has Windows 98). I have > > a K6-233, 32Mb RAM machine. My mainboard manual says my mouse port is a > > PS/2 Mouse. I installed the IBM PS/2 bus mouse driver during the install. I > > also tried to insta

Re: netscape crashes on mail-to

1999-04-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 4 Apr, Kathy Miles wrote about "netscape crashes on mail-to" > Been away from the list for awhile and missed everybody. Running Debian > 2.1 and everything is pretty stable except one annoying problem in > netscape, and it happens in every version of netscape (4.5, older, newer, > communicat

Re: Configure Mouse

1999-04-04 Thread ktb
Greg Scharrer wrote: > > I just installed Debian 2.1 on /dev/hdb1 (/dev/hda has Windows 98). I have > a K6-233, 32Mb RAM machine. My mainboard manual says my mouse port is a > PS/2 Mouse. I installed the IBM PS/2 bus mouse driver during the install. I > also tried to install the the Microsoft bus

netscape crashes on mail-to

1999-04-04 Thread Kathy Miles
Been away from the list for awhile and missed everybody. Running Debian 2.1 and everything is pretty stable except one annoying problem in netscape, and it happens in every version of netscape (4.5, older, newer, communicator, navigator, mozilla) Whenever I visit a website which has a mail-to tag,

Re: Configure Mouse

1999-04-04 Thread Kent West
Greg Scharrer wrote: > > I just installed Debian 2.1 on /dev/hdb1 (/dev/hda has Windows 98). I have > a K6-233, 32Mb RAM machine. My mainboard manual says my mouse port is a > PS/2 Mouse. I installed the IBM PS/2 bus mouse driver during the install. I > also tried to install the the Microsoft bus

Installing problems

1999-04-04 Thread Johann Spies
I do not understand this. This is about the 4th time I am installing debian 2.0 from the same CD and I never had this problems before: 1. I am not able to access any other filesystem than ext2 so I cannot access my CDROM or Dos harddisk or even the floppy after the initial installation script.

Configure Mouse

1999-04-04 Thread Greg Scharrer
I just installed Debian 2.1 on /dev/hdb1 (/dev/hda has Windows 98). I have a K6-233, 32Mb RAM machine. My mainboard manual says my mouse port is a PS/2 Mouse. I installed the IBM PS/2 bus mouse driver during the install. I also tried to install the the Microsoft bus mouse driver but the install fai

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: > > Hi Mark, > > I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. > take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it > like this. > [Config info clipped] > This code brings up the network. you might want to

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-04 Thread Randy Edwards
> What kernel is this, exactly (if it really is a 2.1, you should probably > upgrade)? Are you using compiled-in drivers, or modules? I was running the 2.2.1 kernel which is in potato. Since your message I jumped over to netgod.net and grabbed the debs for 2.2.5. Installed them, configured a

writing gnome-gtk-programs-questions

1999-04-04 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi, I've just download the gnome and gtk-stuff from http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink /dists/unstable/main/binary-i386' I've sucked almost every stuff from this and installed: -gnome -enlightenment my personally preferency is, however, - gnome or

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Gary Singleton
--- John Galt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What's the accepted method of sending a file to a > person that MUST not > get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between > users that have no > access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP > and hostile ISPs, then? Dynamic IP addresses can b

cdrom problems

1999-04-04 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! I'm getting these reports whenever I access my new cdrom (Samsung 32x max). I'm using kernel 2.0.37prelatest. Everything works fine, I just get these annoying messages and the access to the CD-ROM is slower. Can anybody help? Thanks! -- p.

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-04-04 Thread Bruce Sass
[I've made some big cuts. If I cut out anything you think I should have addressed then feel free to bring it up again.] On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > Bruce Sass wrote: > > On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: > > > <...> Anybody with > > > better knowledge like to speak up here? > >

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread John Galt
What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP and hostile ISPs, then? This method should be as easy and as transportable as POPmail, not involve other s

Re: Linux installation help

1999-04-04 Thread Kent West
Cyril Heck wrote: > > The thing is, I moved the files to c:\linux\ and when I give /dev/hda1/linux > as installation path, > I get a message that says that the directory cannot be found... > > -Message d'origine- > De : Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > À : Cyril Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >

Re: Linux installation help

1999-04-04 Thread Cyril Heck
The thing is, I moved the files to c:\linux\ and when I give /dev/hda1/linux as installation path, I get a message that says that the directory cannot be found... -Message d'origine- De : Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> À : Cyril Heck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date : dimanche 4 avril 1999 20:04 O

upgrading libc6

1999-04-04 Thread Pollywog
I just tried to install the new ICQ clone "ICQnix" and got this: Selecting previously deselected package icqnix. (Reading database ... 42715 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking icqnix (from ICQnix-Beta-1-0.i386.deb) ... dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of icqnix:

Trying to play a game....

1999-04-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I am trying to play Maelstrom, a game that comes with Debian Non-Free. When I try to start it I get the following after the window has opened and shut down again: Major opcode of failed request: 129 (MIT-SHM) Minor opcode of failed request: 3 (X_ShmPutImage) Serial number of failed req

new ICQ clone for Unix

1999-04-04 Thread Pollywog
A new ICQ clone for Unixes just appeared: http://www.chesapeake.net/~jacob/icqnix/download.html This one uses QT and comes in a deb package too. -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: irc help

1999-04-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: irc help Date: Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 01:30:41AM -1000 In reply to:Shawn Nguyen Quoting Shawn Nguyen([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi, > > I am using Zircon IRC to try to hook up to irc.debian.org but I can't > seem to get there. Is there > something special that I need t

Re: Mutt 0.95.4-0.1 and slang

1999-04-04 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: > Hi there, > > I'm currently using Mutt 0.93i and would like to upgrade to 0.95.4-0.1, > which I ftp'ed. The problem is that the dependencies for it are > slang1 (<< 1.3) and slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0), whereas I only have slang0.99.38-6, > > am I supposed to install a slang v

Re: Installing the Latest Version of Debian from a DOS partition

1999-04-04 Thread Kent West
> Egwu Kalu wrote: > > What am I doing wrong ? I tried to install Debian (latest, March 99) > from a DOS > partition without sucess. The messages I get on my screen are : > > uncompressing Linux > ran out of input data > --- system halted. > > The system does hang-up. I am not a Debian-

Mutt 0.95.4-0.1

1999-04-04 Thread homega
Hi there, I'm currently using Mutt 0.93i and would like to upgrade to 0.95.4-0.1, which I ftp'ed. The problem is that the dependencies for it are slang1 (<< 1.3) and slang1 (>> 1.2.2-0), whereas I only have slang0.99.38-6, am I supposed to install a slang version "smaller" than 1.3 but "bigger"

Slink mail

1999-04-04 Thread Chris Hoover
I just did a minor upgrade of my system to slink (I had done a major upgrade before it was officially released), and am now having problems with mail. Everytime runq or in.smtpd run, they are going balistic, and taking up all of my processor (causing loads > 2 or 3). Does anyone know what is goin

lpd/lprng

1999-04-04 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, in my /etc/init.d I have a lpd and a lprng script. What is the difference between them, and do I need them both? When I do a ps I have two instances of lpd running. Is that right? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.co

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread KaHa
Gary Singleton wrote: [..] > As an aside, this person sends .doc files regularly too; luckily > we're not susceptible to their evils. Don't get mad: get even. People that send me .doc files generally recieve a copy of the bash manpage or a big ole tarball. :-) > Regards, G.S. -- .

multiple mailings

1999-04-04 Thread Carl Wiebe
I'm getting about 4 copies of every piece of mail to the list. I can't handle it. I'll unsubscribe for now. Maybe later. Carl Wiebe

Re: irc help

1999-04-04 Thread KaHa
Shawn Nguyen wrote: > I am using Zircon IRC to try to hook up to irc.debian.org but I > can't seem to get there. Is there something special that I need to > do in order to open the link to irc.debian.org? Does it work? Hmm.. irc.debian.org was a sort of a round-robin thing; wasn't working anymor

Re: New Building Voice/Data Recommendations

1999-04-04 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Walter L. Preuninger II wrote: : I will soon be moving into a 32' x 58' 'manufactured' house. It is a 3 : bedroom, with 1 room being 'the computer room'. I have several questions : concerning the wiring for phone and networking. : : Using cat 5 cable, should I run 1 run

Re: what exactly is a segmentation fault?

1999-04-04 Thread rich
> ldd of "multitrack": > libvga.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvga.so.1 (0x4000c000) > libvgagl.so.1 => /usr/lib/libvgagl.so.1 (0x40058000) > libX11.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libX11.so.6 (0x40067000) > libm.so.5 => /lib/libm.so.5 (0x40105000) > libc.so.5 => /lib/li

Keys in xterm, keys in rxvt...

1999-04-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
I am confused by the keys in xterm and rxvt. I find that the F* keys and Home, End, don't work in xterm (and I can't see how to make them do so via xkeycaps). They do work in rxvt, unless I've run /etc/bash_profile in order to get the aliases, etc, after which the F keys no longer work. All very

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Jiri Baum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Stefan Nobis: > > Do you get the point? To send emails bigger than > about 40-80KB without > > being asked to do so and without asking the > recipient is not very nice > > and i would call it an offence. > > Your point being? > > Everyone kno

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-04-04 Thread John Hasler
Ed C. writes: > If a compromise is not possible, then an 'install-rc' tool *accepted by > all dists* would be the only other choice, and it would essentially have > to know the details about every dist that conforms to the LSB. Writing > (and maintaining) the thing could be real hairy. The idea i

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi Mark, I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it like this. ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0 BROADCAST=192.16

Re: TR: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

1999-04-04 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 4 Apr, David Nelson wrote about "TR: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian" > Syrus and Brian (and whoever else), > I checked the page Brian recommended, and apparently ATI seem to have changed > policy and there may soon be support for ATI-TV... > That is amazing! That has been updated bet

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 23:10:08 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote: >Everyone knows that you shouldn't in general send files over about 50 KB >(or at least everyone that's read RFC 1855). Everyone knows you shouldn't >send large amounts of unsolicited informati

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Steve Lamb: > > Ohh... You mean make it easy for idiot users to send large > > attachments through a medium that wasn't designed for it, shouldn't be > > used in that manner, and causes more problems than is needed with each > > step of the way. > > If I were to do it I'd have the email cl

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Stefan Nobis: > Do you get the point? To send emails bigger than about 40-80KB without > being asked to do so and without asking the recipient is not very nice > and i would call it an offence. Your point being? Everyone knows that you shouldn't in general send files over about 50 KB (or

Re: Slink Install: Kernel Unpacking & Sound Problems

1999-04-04 Thread Peter Berlau
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 09:51:44AM +0200, John Stevenson wrote: > Hello, Hi John [..] I have had same problems after updating from 2.0.36-2 to 2.0.36-3 but , oops, I've still forgotten following steps: 1. configure kernel for sound - You have already done so 2. change to the `/usr/src/awedrv` d

TR: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

1999-04-04 Thread David Nelson
-Message d'origine- De: David Nelson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: dimanche 4 avril 1999 13:45 À: 'Syrus Nemat-Nasser' Objet: RE: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian Hi Syrus, No, my card is the ATI 3D Pro Turbo PC2TV, which I think differs from the All-In-Wonder in that the

TR: using Hauppauge WinTV under Debian

1999-04-04 Thread David Nelson
Syrus and Brian (and whoever else), I checked the page Brian recommended, and apparently ATI seem to have changed policy and there may soon be support for ATI-TV... -Message d'origine- De: Syrus Nemat-Nasser [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: vendredi 2 avril 1999 13:16 À: David Nel

irc help

1999-04-04 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I am using Zircon IRC to try to hook up to irc.debian.org but I can't seem to get there. Is there something special that I need to do in order to open the link to irc.debian.org? Does it work? Shawn

SiS6326 chip and XFree86

1999-04-04 Thread Antonio Ullán
Hello: My PC is running slink. I just have installed a SiS6326 AGP video card and I don't know how can I to configure X-Window. I have intented with XF86_SVGA server but only I get 320x200 resolution and Ctrl-Alt-+, Ctrl-Alt-- dont't work. Can somebody help me?. Thanks. Best regards. Antonio -

Linux installation help

1999-04-04 Thread Cyril Heck
I have an old CD of debian 1.3 and am trying to install packages from there. I just installed debian 2.1 after being downloaded from the internet. This was my first install but everything seemed allright. The problem is it seems the system (linux) doesn't recognize my CD drive, I think because it

vmware/kernel

1999-04-04 Thread Kelvin
-- while doing a make menuconfig i get : There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is built prior to running Menuconfig. Usually this is an indicator that you have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/

vmware/kernel

1999-04-04 Thread Kelvin
while doing a make menuconfig i get : There seems to be a problem with the lxdialog companion utility which is built prior to running Menuconfig. Usually this is an indicator that you have upgraded/downgraded your ncurses libraries and did not remove the old ncurses header file(s) in /usr/includ

Re: Installing the Latest Version of Debian from a DOS partition

1999-04-04 Thread James Mastros
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 04:11:01AM -0400, Egwu Kalu wrote: > uncompressing Linux > ran out of input data > --- system halted. It looks like the kernel you downloaded (into a file named "linux", I belive) didn't quite make it. Try downloading the file again. -=- James Mastros

Installing the Latest Version of Debian from a DOS partition

1999-04-04 Thread Egwu Kalu
What am I doing wrong ? I tried to install Debian (latest, March 99) from a DOS partition without sucess. The messages I get on my screen are :   uncompressing Linux ran out of input data --- system halted.   The system does hang-up. I am not a Debian-user but would like to become o

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-04 Thread Tyson Dowd
On 04-Apr-1999, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 06:18:57PM -, Pollywog wrote: > > vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my system is not really > > vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to vim on most systems? > > > > vim works well, but vi is

New Building Voice/Data Recommendations

1999-04-04 Thread Walter L. Preuninger II
I will soon be moving into a 32' x 58' 'manufactured' house. It is a 3 bedroom, with 1 room being 'the computer room'. I have several questions concerning the wiring for phone and networking. Using cat 5 cable, should I run 1 run for voice, and 1 for data? Or can I use 4 & 5 for the voice. I want

Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all: I had problems with the dhcp client that comes with slink, so I installed the version that's in potato. It installed okay, but it prompted me for a network device from a list that it apparently found. Unfortunately, it found none. I have a Linksys card and I've been to their site and foll

Re: RedHat = MS-Linux

1999-04-04 Thread Ed Cogburn
John Hasler wrote: > > Ed Cogburn writes: > > For the issue of a software package that needs to get a daemon running at > > bootup, I don't think the problem is trivial. The layout and use of the > > /etc/init.d and /etc/rc*.d dirs is (I've read) far from compatible > > between RH and Deb. > > H

Re: Newbie question on dselect

1999-04-04 Thread Pollywog
On 04-Apr-99 Adam Di Carlo wrote: > Um, no, the errors are because it can't resolve the host names. You > have to have a working DNS configuration (man resolv.conf). > Alternatively, try IP numbers but I'm not sure if that will work or > not. > >> How do set the proxy server information in the >

Re: Help Installing Linux

1999-04-04 Thread Kent West
Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > 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, th

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-04 Thread James Mastros
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 11:43:41PM -0500, Randy Edwards wrote: > > Somthing tells me that perhaps you don't have soundcore? (What, I couldn't > > say, as I don't have the kernel sources about.) Do you have a /proc/sound? >Hmm, I'm not sure what a soundcore is. But I do not have a /proc/sound

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-04 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 4 Apr 1999, Martin Bialasinski wrote: > My .xsession file looks something like this: > > xsetroot -solid slategrey & > xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults > fvwm2 & > exec /usr/bin/gnome-session Is there anything in gnome besides the gnome pager that doesn't work with the (non gnome-compliant)

Re: netscape ignore's clicks

1999-04-04 Thread Sean
That usually happens when a page is 'busy' (or has hanged, or is dowloading slow, etc). I've noticed that the problem is much worse with 4.51 than 4.08. I also think that 4.08 is more stable than 4.51, and it isn't quite as bad with hogging memory. It seems to me that 4.51 has a pretty sever m

Re: SB 128 PCI w/2.1 kernel

1999-04-04 Thread Randy Edwards
> Somthing tells me that perhaps you don't have soundcore? (What, I couldn't > say, as I don't have the kernel sources about.) Do you have a /proc/sound? Hmm, I'm not sure what a soundcore is. But I do not have a /proc/sound. -- Regards, | REDMOND, WA (API) --- MICROSOFT (MSFT) announced

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-04 Thread James Mastros
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 07:30:53PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Sat, 3 Apr 1999 13:00:30 -0500 (EST), William R Pentney wrote: > > Well, AFAIK fvwm2 isn't compiled for use with Gnome. It would be like > installing KDE and not using KWM. It'll work, just not with all the bells > and whistles

Re: lossless partitioning

1999-04-04 Thread James Mastros
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 09:17:09PM -0600, Carl Wiebe wrote: > I believe FIPS works very well with lossless partitioning. I'm very much a > newbie (is that close to "dumb end-user"?) but I was able to partition a > hard drive for Linux and swap without losing my DOS partition. I've used it on multip

Help with /etc/printcap

1999-04-04 Thread wax_man
I'm having problems getting my remote printing to work when I use true type fonts. When i was on the #debian irc channel, someone suggested that I process the print job to raw printer data, and then send it to the printer. However, I have no idea how to do this. Could someone please help me setu

Re: Newbie question on dselect

1999-04-04 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Rick Tan) writes: > I just successfully installed slink 2.1 on a sparc machine. When I attempted > to use "dselect" to install some other packages off the net, I ran into the > following problem. > > Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages > Get http://http.non-u

Re: fs type iso9660 not supported by kernel

1999-04-04 Thread Marlon Urias
I had the same problem. I couldn't get a viable solutions so the way I solved the problem (I cheated): I remembered that I had a RedHat installation on another patition. I mounted that partition, copied the isofs.o file into my debian partition into /lib/modules//fs (or something like that) edited

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 3 Apr 1999 13:00:30 -0500 (EST), William R Pentney wrote: >I just installed GNOME and use it with fvwm2, and it seems to work nicely, >but I haven't tried it with others yet. Am I missing out on anything? Is >this a particularly bad choice?

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-04 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 3 Apr 1999 09:07:49 -0800 (PST), Gary Singleton wrote: >Does icewm-gnome offer anything that icewm doesn't? I like icewm primarily >for it's simplicity and apparent low resource usage. Is the gnome version >just built using the gnome librari

Re: lossless partitioning

1999-04-04 Thread Carl Wiebe
I believe FIPS works very well with lossless partitioning. I'm very much a newbie (is that close to "dumb end-user"?) but I was able to partition a hard drive for Linux and swap without losing my DOS partition. Carl Wiebe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNOME query

1999-04-04 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "HM" == Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: HM> Query: how do I start it? I ran panel and got a nice panel. I have a /usr7doc/gnome dir with some info. README.Debian says: My .xsession file looks something like this: xsetroot -solid slategrey & xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults fvwm2 &

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 06:18:57PM -, Pollywog wrote: > vi is acting weird, and I just discovered that vi on my system is not really > vim. Isn't vi really just a symlink to vim on most systems? > > vim works well, but vi is weird. It acts buggy. vi could be nvi, elvis, or vim, or another

Newbie question on dselect

1999-04-04 Thread Rick Tan
Hello, I just successfully installed slink 2.1 on a sparc machine. When I attempted to use "dselect" to install some other packages off the net, I ran into the following problem. Get http://http.us.debian.org stable/contrib Packages Get http://http.non-us.debian.org stable/non-US Packages Error

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 10:43:00AM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote: > But if you are so happy about big emails, what about sending you the > X11 sources? Without asking you about sending it. Will you be happy > about that? If it is solicited, just fine. What is your point? I never claimed unsolicited a

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-04 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 3 Apr 1999, Stefan Nobis wrote: > I get from time to time mails from friends and even from people i > don't know with attachments some times greater than 1MB. And i'm > always very angry about it, cause i do pay for my telphone connection > (4 minutes costs me 12 german Pfennige, about 0,07US$)