RE: Duda de Instalacion

1999-04-14 Thread José Enrique Álvarez Martín
El 13 de Abril de 1999 Manuel J. Gamero escribio: Quiero instalar Linux en una maquina conviviendo con win9x. Se por supuesto que me dara problemas, pero existe la posibilidad de hacerlo arranque dual, tipo OS2/Warp? Es mejor utilizar un paquete tipo Partition Magic para hacerlo? Que

grabadora

1999-04-14 Thread Jordi Roman Mejias
Me querria comprar una grabadora y que funcionara en Debian y me gustaria sabeer si la yamaha 4416 scsi funciona ok. ¿Donde puedo encontrar esta información? ¿Alguien la tiene? ¿Esta soportado el formato RW o solo el formato iso? --

Instalación con MultiCD

1999-04-14 Thread Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes
Buenos días a todos, he instalado la Debian 2.1, pero sólo con el primer CD. En la opción Access de dselect le puse instalación desde CD-ROM. En ningún momento me pidió el segundo CD, y mi pregunta es la siguiente: ¿debería haber puesto instalación desde MultiCD para que cuando le hiciera

nntpcache

1999-04-14 Thread José Illescas Pérez
Hola, ¿alguien tiene instalado el nntpcache? No soy capaz de configurarle permisos de acceso a estaciones individuales. Salute. _ __ __ | |/ ___/ ___| \/ | José Illescas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] AOLScreen: yoburtu _ | | | | | | |\/| | TFNO: +34+25-266219 FAX: +34+25-266300

Cachondeo, cachondeo total de benchmarks

1999-04-14 Thread Arregui-García, Javier
Hola a todos. Esto es alucinante: comparad estas dos direcciones web: http://www.gcs.bc.ca/bem/editorials/nts4rhlinux.shtml http://www.mindcraft.com/whitepapers/nts4rhlinux.html Son EXACTAMENTE los mismos resultados del benchmark, pero en un caso el bueno es NT y en el otro, el bueno es Linux.

Re: Ya instale, ahora que puedo hacer?

1999-04-14 Thread Raul Perez Justicia
Acabo de instalar Linux Debian 2.1, que puedo hacer o por donde me recomiendan empezar...:- Eso es facil (si todo fuera asi). 1.- Preguntate a ti mismo (si quieres te pones delante de un espejo :) ), que quieres hacer con el ordenata. 2.- Averigua que programas necesitas para hacer lo

Re: Ya instale, ahora que puedo hacer?

1999-04-14 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 06:17:44PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Estoy por hacer una página web dirigida a los novatos (me incluyo) dirigida a explicar que pasos seguir y como ir haciendo la instalación desde internet, espero en poco tiempo montar la primera parte. On Wed, Apr 14, 1999

Re: Logotipo de Debian

1999-04-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ??? Si no me equivoco _los_cuatro_ salieron en el concurso. Según lo entendí yo, el concurso era para seleccionar un pequeño número de candidatos, de los que luego se elegiría por votación el logotipo oficial y el de uso libre. Y en eso

Preguntas varias sobre GNOME

1999-04-14 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola a todos. Me acabo de instalar sobre Slink el GNOME 1.0.1 que tiene Jim Pick en http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ y todos me ha ido bien pero tengo dudas: 1) ¿Como activar por defecto gnome al entrar en sesión X?. Supongamos que

Re: [Configurando modem pnp]

1999-04-14 Thread J.E. Marchesi
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Hue-Bond wrote: El lunes 12 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 09:52:21 +, J.E. Marchesi contaba: De hecho, el 'Cabezazo de Vulcano' (o ctrl-alt-supr) esta definido en /etc/initab, definicion que se puede cambiar a cualquier otra combinacion de letras. ¿Sí? ¿O

Programación de sockets.

1999-04-14 Thread jvicente
En la facultad tengo que hacer un trabajo practico que consiste en programar un juego, el PAC-MAN (se acuerdan?), para poder jugarlo en red. Me dijeron que vamos a usar sockets, y quería saber donde puedo encontrar algo de info al respecto, aunque sea de que se trata el tema. Supongo que debe

Más madera sobre GNOME

1999-04-14 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
¡Hola de nuevo! El cron acaba de reminar su tarea y me ha mandado un chorro de 'PERMISSION MISMATCH' que ayer antes de instalar GNOME no tenía :-? Ahí va eso: /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: /usr/bin/mail PERMISSION MISMATCH: was root.mail 777 changed to root.mail 2755 File

RE: Cachondeo, cachondeo total de benchmarks

1999-04-14 Thread Arregui-García, Javier
Bueno, me respondo a mí mismo. En http://www.gcs.bc.ca/bem/editorials/index.shtml explican que se trata de una parodia del test hecho en mindcraft. He ahí la explicación. Javi

profundidad del color en X

1999-04-14 Thread Fernando
Hola: ¿ Es posible cambiar la profundidad del color de las X sin tener que salir ? Saludos. -- Fernando. {:-{D Hackers do it with fewer instructions.

Cargar módulos

1999-04-14 Thread Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes
Hola a todos, ya he instalado la Debian 2.1 y me ha surgido la siguiente pregunta, ¿cómo puedo cargar alguno de los módulos que me salían en la instalación ahora que ya he terminado la instalación? Gracias a todos.

Resolviendo gdudas...

1999-04-14 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
¡(Hola de nuevo)++! (me estoy ganando el premio al pesao del día jeje... pero ¡que carajo!, ante la duda...) Parece que me precipité al afirmar que no había suficiente doc para gnome... si la hay, mucha y buena, pero no en '/usr/doc/' sino en '/usr/share/gnome/' ¿por qué ahí?, ¡ni idea! :-? Para

Re: Preguntas varias sobre GNOME

1999-04-14 Thread Raul Perez Justicia
Hola a todos. Me acabo de instalar sobre Slink el GNOME 1.0.1 que tiene Jim Pick en http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386/ y todos me ha ido bien pero tengo dudas: 1) ¿Como activar por defecto gnome al entrar en sesión X?.

RE: Programación de sockets.

1999-04-14 Thread José Enrique Álvarez Martín
Fecha: miércoles 14 de abril de 1999 14:44 En la facultad tengo que hacer un trabajo practico que consiste en programar un juego, el PAC-MAN (se acuerdan?), para poder jugarlo en red. Me dijeron que vamos a usar sockets, y quería saber donde puedo encontrar algo de info al respecto, aunque sea

Re: Cargar módulos

1999-04-14 Thread Jaime E. Villate
Manuel Jerez Cßrdenes wrote: Hola a todos, ya he instalado la Debian 2.1 y me ha surgido la siguiente pregunta, ¿cómo puedo cargar alguno de los módulos que me salían en la instalación ahora que ya he terminado la instalación? su modconf

RE: Programación de sockets.

1999-04-14 Thread jvicente
En la facultad tengo que hacer un trabajo practico que consiste en programar un juego, el PAC-MAN (se acuerdan?), para poder jugarlo en red. Me dijeron que vamos a usar sockets, y quería saber donde puedo encontrar algo de info al respecto, aunque sea de que se trata el tema. Supongo que debe

RE: Programación de sockets.

1999-04-14 Thread jvicente
En la facultad tengo que hacer un trabajo practico que consiste en programar un juego, el PAC-MAN (se acuerdan?), para poder jugarlo en red. Me dijeron que vamos a usar sockets, y quería saber donde puedo encontrar algo de info al respecto, aunque sea de que se trata el tema. Supongo que debe

Xfree 3.3.3 en Debian 2.1

1999-04-14 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Bien, pues resulta que tengo un problemilla mas o menos gordo. Tengo una serie de ordenadores con una tarjeta (Diamond Speedstar SiS 8626 AGP), que no está soportada en Xfree 3.3.2 (la que viene en Debian 2.1) y sí en Xfree 3.3.3, que, que yo no sepa, no tiene aún paquete Debian..

Re: Xfree 3.3.3 en Debian 2.1

1999-04-14 Thread Dragonbreath
JF Bien, pues resulta que tengo un problemilla mas o menos gordo. JFTengo una serie de ordenadores con una tarjeta (Diamond Speedstar SiS 8626 JFAGP), que no está soportada en Xfree 3.3.2 (la que viene en Debian 2.1) y sí JFen Xfree 3.3.3, que, que yo no sepa, no tiene aún paquete Debian..

Re: Xfree 3.3.3 en Debian 2.1

1999-04-14 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 07:30:38PM +0200, Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a wrote: Bien, pues resulta que tengo un problemilla mas o menos gordo. Tengo una serie de ordenadores con una tarjeta (Diamond Speedstar SiS 8626 AGP), que no está soportada en Xfree 3.3.2 (la que viene en Debian 2.1) y

Re: Varias preguntas...

1999-04-14 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 12 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 19:26:16 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: 2. Justo despues de instalar el sistema base, y antes de dispararse el dselect, sale una lista con perfiles donde uno puede elegir el perfil que quiere para la instalación, ademas de los paquetes que se instalarán en

Re: Más problemas con suck

1999-04-14 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 13 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 12:12:16 +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez contaba: [EMAIL PROTECTED] get-news Attempting to connect to news.ctv.es :-?¿?¿¿ Si usas mis conffiles, esto es imposible. es.comp.os.linux - 58455...High Article Nr is low, did host reset its counter?

Re: Problema al enviar post a las news

1999-04-14 Thread Hue-Bond
El martes 13 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 11:40:41 +0200, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez contaba: Perdón por la confusión mia pero si, si aparece en /var/spool/news/out.going/news.mad.ttd.net la línea: es/comp/os/linux/5105 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fale, estupendo. Yo tengo: ## This file is

Re: mount partition or disk

1999-04-14 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
Hi On Tue, 13 Apr, 1999 à 07:54:29PM +1000, Jiri Baum wrote: Hello, is there an easy (or canonical) way of (auto)detecting whether a disk is partitioned, please? A valid partition table must contains a signature consisting of the two bytes AA55 (or 55AA, I'm not sure) as the two last bytes

Re: Question about recompiling kernel ...

1999-04-14 Thread John Galt
Of course, you COULD solve all of this with kernel-packages, which makes the prospective kernel into a .deb file for easy installation. The zImage/bzImage problem is solved by kernel-package: IIRC it uses the Debian standard bzImage by preference, but either way, it works so well that there's no

Re: Current kernel configuration?

1999-04-14 Thread John Galt
/sound/alsa{utils -modules -source lib}sounds like it might do the trick for free On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: Re: Current kernel configuration? Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 09:23:30PM +0200 In reply to:Bruno Goncalves Russo Quoting Bruno Goncalves

Re: Alan Cox's patches

1999-04-14 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 18:28:52 -0400, Sean wrote: Are the ac-kernel patches applied in order? For instance, if I wanted to apply patch #6, would I first have to apply patch 1-5? No. You ONLY apply the latest patch. -- Sign the EU petition against SPAM: L I N U X .~.

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 01:24:00PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Wrong. 99.5% of the population has access to an FTP server that will allow aonymous FTP access. They can place the file there. They could also I don't know if that's standard for ISPs in the US, but in the UK it is normal not

Re: OT: Network design

1999-04-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:40:24PM -0400, Dan Brosemer wrote: I'm thinking of using ipmasq to share a cable-modem among many machines. I would like to set up a DNS on this (gateway? proxy?) in order to resolve names inside this subnetwork. I would also like to telnet into the boxen on the

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be no, but I wonder whether there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux? Or do I have to borrow a Windows machine and convert it to txt?

Re: Running a script from /etc/ip-up.d

1999-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Christian Dysthe writes: I will try that, but the .fetchmailrc file in /home/cdysthe is owned by root. Shouldn't that be enough? Baffle. Why do you have a .fetchmailrc owned by root in cdysthe's home? I assumed you were trying to fetch mail for cdysthe. Check the permissions. Fetchmail

Re: Force delivery?

1999-04-14 Thread Mark Brown
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 03:49:30PM -0700, JDK wrote: I didn't find this in the FAQ, and haven't had any luck trying some of the options in the Exim docs... Can someone tell me how to force delivery of a bunch of mail to local addresses? Running mailq shows them all as Frozen. If it

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Luis Villa wrote: On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: In reply to:Anthony Campbell Quoting Anthony Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: Thanks to all who replied about this. A lot of you suggested WP8 but I was unable

Re: ftp has stopped working

1999-04-14 Thread Bob Nielsen
Check that ftp isn't commented out in /etc/inetd.conf (which happened to me when I upgraded to slink.) Bob On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: one of our systems is now refusing incoming connections, generating the error, ftp: connect: Connection refused This has

Re: Question about recompiling kernel ...

1999-04-14 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Of course, you COULD solve all of this with kernel-packages, which makes the prospective kernel into a .deb file for easy installation. The zImage/bzImage problem is solved by kernel-package: IIRC it uses the Debian standard bzImage by preference, but

Re: Cheapbytes CDs

1999-04-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
William R Pentney wrote: This is odd. I used Cheapbytes' Debian 2.0 CD to install Linux (later upgraded to slink via FTP) and everything worked quite smoothly. I recommended them to a few friends. Have a lot of you out there had bad experiences with them? - Bill On Tue, 13 Apr 1999,

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files? Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:14:00PM -0400 In reply to:Luis Villa Quoting Luis Villa([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: In reply to:Anthony Campbell Quoting Anthony Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-14 Thread Steve Lamb
At 12:05 AM 4/14/99 +0100, Mark Brown wrote: I don't know if that's standard for ISPs in the US, but in the UK it is normal not to have a shell account or FTP space. HTTP is normally avalible, but something like 10-25MB space seems standard. Which is enough for someone to put in an embedded

Re: Cheapbytes CDs

1999-04-14 Thread Pollywog
On 13-Apr-99 Mark Wagnon wrote: I had problems with some hamm discs I got back in august. Frustrated, I bought replacements from LSL. Reflecting back, I'm not so sure that the problem didn't originate with me. I'd have try and install them again, but I don't think I about to do that too

Re: re- cheapbytes cd

1999-04-14 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Kenneth Scharf wrote: A friend had a problem installing base2_1.tgz from my Cheapbytes 4 CD set (I only upgraded). How did you upgrade using the CD? I downloaded the latest apt (0.3x) from ftp.debian.org as the cd came with 0.1.8. same here.

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Shao Zhang
Big programs like staroffice and wp8 can handle it with no problem. I havn't got time to try the following one, but it sounds like what you want. ii catdoc 0.33-3 MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter Anthony Campbell wrote: On 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Robert King
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be no, but I wonder whether there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux? Or do I have to borrow a Windows machine and convert it to txt? I've had good success with mswordview for word8.

Re: Cheapbytes CDs

1999-04-14 Thread Mark Wagnon
Pollywog wrote: What is LSL? Linux System Labs http://www.lsl.com/ -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / / (_)__ __ __ Chula Vista, CA /\\/ /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Force delivery?

1999-04-14 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Force delivery? Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 03:49:30PM -0700 In reply to:JDK Quoting JDK([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I didn't find this in the FAQ, and haven't had any luck trying some of the options in the Exim docs... Can someone tell me how to force delivery of a bunch

Re: mounting floppy disk

1999-04-14 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 06:22:40PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would seem to indicate your kernel lacks floppy drive support!? What do you get from: 'cat /proc/devices | grep fd'? Nothing. :-( Here is my /proc/devices: ---begin quoted text--- Character

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

1999-04-14 Thread Stefan Baums
What is your TERM variable set to (I tried rxvt, xterm and xterm-debian), and do you use MFTERM (according to man mf not necessary if TERM is set)? What shell do you use (export sounds like bash; I use tcsh)? Finally, what sort of output can I expect? A large fat dot, or a tiny one I could easily

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

1999-04-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:25:22AM +0100, Stefan Baums wrote: What is your TERM variable set to xterm This is hardcoded in the mf binary (do a string -a on it) DISPLAY needs to be set tool Here, MFTERM is not set. DISPLAY is :0.0 I think using setenv in tcsh automatically exports a variable.

Re: Online Metafont graphics?

1999-04-14 Thread Stefan Baums
Well, it's just not working. No dots in sight. Nils, what version of Debian and teTeX are you using? Does the output appear in the same window where you type the commands, or does another xterm pop up? Puzzled, Stefan pgpUmOHv6V910.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Jan Muszynski
On 13 Apr 99, at 15:34, Wayne Topa wrote about Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files: Subject: Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files? Date: Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 07:11:35PM +0100 In reply to:Anthony Campbell Quoting Anthony Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 13 Apr 1999,

Re: Cheapbyte CDs

1999-04-14 Thread Assad Khan
Debian did install before, but I did get the same error message. It said it couldnt open base2_1.tgz, that shouldnt have happened because my cdrom cannot write to a cd. I kept wondering throughout the night why it installed once and not again. I even tried copying the base2_1.tgz to the

Re: internet

1999-04-14 Thread John Hasler
Jose writes: Hello , i am from Argentina and i have a problem here I need to know how to make available the dialing assisted by an operator just like i did with windows Could you explain exactly what you are trying to do? I don't use Windows, so I have no idea what you mean by dialing

Setting up ssh

1999-04-14 Thread Corey Ralph
Does anyone know where I can find a howto on setting up ssh? I have tried running the script to get the hosts using dns, but it doesn't find any hosts. Is there a way to give it an IP address to try, and have it add the host? Thanks in advance.

Odd X problem (Slink)

1999-04-14 Thread Matthew Myers Davis
I installed Slink this morning; debian seems to be up and running just fine. X, however, is another matter. xdm tries to find an xserver, and can't find a /etc/X11/XF86Config file. It just isn't there. Startx also can't start x, but it doesn't even tell me why, so I'm going with xdm's

Re: Odd X problem (Slink)

1999-04-14 Thread Ajit Krishnan
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Matthew Myers Davis wrote: I installed Slink this morning; debian seems to be up and running just fine. X, however, is another matter. xdm tries to find an xserver, and can't find a /etc/X11/XF86Config file. It just isn't there. Startx also can't start x, but it

Re: scroll bar resource?

1999-04-14 Thread John
Thanks Robbie, but it doesn't appear that editres is the answer. I can change the color or turn it on/off, but unless I'm missing something I can't seem to change the type of scroll bar. I like your idea about editing Netscape though. I'll try it later. John From: Robbie Huffman [EMAIL

Re: Odd X problem (Slink)

1999-04-14 Thread surak
I installed Slink this morning; debian seems to be up and running just fine. X, however, is another matter. xdm tries to find an xserver, and can't find a /etc/X11/XF86Config file. It just isn't there. Startx also can't start x, but it doesn't even tell me why, so I'm going with xdm's

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Gary Singleton
FWIW I tried catdoc and in my opinion it's not very good. I just tried it to get some old docs readable plain text. It works OK and it gets the text out but for me it sometimes repeated paragraphs and things like that. G.S. --- Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Big programs like

HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-14 Thread David B.Teague
All: This is a Second Request. I really need an answer. I have the following kernel related packages installed, according to dpkg -l ii kernel-headers- 2.0.32-5 Linux kernel headers. ii kernel-image-2. custon.1.0 Linux kernel binary image. ii kernel-package 4.11 Debian

Re: scroll bar resource? (half solved)

1999-04-14 Thread John
Chris, Thanks, you were right about the Xaw3d package. Once I installed it several of the slink applications regained the same scroll bar look as on my hamm disk. Xterm, however, remained the same. Still just a plain bar with no arrows. Is xterm in slink different than xterm in hamm? Or

Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-14 Thread ktb
David B.Teague wrote: All: This is a Second Request. I really need an answer. I have the following kernel related packages installed, according to dpkg -l ii kernel-headers- 2.0.32-5 Linux kernel headers. ii kernel-image-2. custon.1.0 Linux kernel binary image. ii

Re: HELP! All SCSI, no is09660 fs

1999-04-14 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, ktb wrote: [ snip ] : How do I force cause the kernel's make config to offer : me an iso9660 file system? Or how do I hack the .config to get : that fs? : : If your looking for iso9660 I think you enable that under File : systems. At least in 'make xconfig' if

how to reset the console?

1999-04-14 Thread Rob Mahurin
I feel pretty silly about this ... I was playing around with some of the programs in the games directory and one (lincity) gave me some complaint about svga permissions. I said Hmmm and tried it with sudo, and it got about halfway through changing the video stuff and died. Now I'm stuck with a

Can't Find URL

1999-04-14 Thread Greg Scharrer
I have pon finding my modem and making a connection. I have noauth set in /etc/ppp/options. However, Netscape3 and Mozilla both say they cannot find any URL I type in. I always get a message DNS server not found. Yes, I wait for the connection to be made before trying to open URLs. My plog output

Re: Adding stuff to init

1999-04-14 Thread James Mastros
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:14:08PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: I've got to admit that I'm a bit intimidated by the Debian's startup scripts. I read through update-rc.d's man page, but the format of skelton scares me - I don't understand it yet. For somthing that dosn't run as a daemon, you

RE: Laptop clock skews after suspend

1999-04-14 Thread Shaleh
On 13-Apr-99 Paul Nathan Puri wrote: After I bring my laptop out of suspend or (sometimes) when I reboot my laptop either the clock or the date will skew. How do I fix this? Right now is skewed two hours. I'm not sure if the skew is always the same. I haven't been keeping tally. Thanks.

RE: looking for correct 'insmod de4x5' args

1999-04-14 Thread Shaleh
On 13-Apr-99 MJ Watson wrote: Been working a while on getting a DEC 21142 card up on a 2.0 install but apparently haven't hit on the right parms. The system is a DEC Celebris 6200, Intel 233. The network is 10Mb, half-duplex. Attempts have included: insmod de4x5 insmod de4x5

RE: Can't Find URL

1999-04-14 Thread Shaleh
On 14-Apr-99 Greg Scharrer wrote: I have pon finding my modem and making a connection. I have noauth set in /etc/ppp/options. However, Netscape3 and Mozilla both say they cannot find any URL I type in. I always get a message DNS server not found. Yes, I wait for the connection to be made

APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
So I looked at the master lists suggested earlier in this thread and tried to restore the non-US settings that got fubared earlier in my setup. I couldn't get it to work. Here's what I've tried: 1) using dselect, I choose apt as my access method. 2) After retyping the sites that work (note to

Install problem

1999-04-14 Thread budlorch
I am installing Debian GNU/Linux for Intel 486 from floppies, since the old computer I'm experimenting with doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. I downloaded the following files so far: resc1440.bin resc1440tecra.bin drv1440.bin drv1440tecra.bin base14-1.bin to base14-7.bin rawrite2.exe I can find no

invalid preprocessing directive name upon startx

1999-04-14 Thread Ian Peters
I'm using the latest stuff from unstable. I noticed that I've started getting the following errors at the end of the crap startx dumps to the VC upon X startup: :17: invalid preprocessing directive name :18: invalid preprocessing directive name :19: invalid preprocessing directive name (repeated

RE: Install problem

1999-04-14 Thread Shaleh
On 14-Apr-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing Debian GNU/Linux for Intel 486 from floppies, since the old computer I'm experimenting with doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. I downloaded the following files so far: resc1440.bin resc1440tecra.bin drv1440.bin drv1440tecra.bin

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: So I looked at the master lists suggested earlier in this thread and tried to restore the non-US settings that got fubared earlier in my setup. I couldn't get it to work. Here's what I've tried: 1) using dselect, I choose apt as my access method. 2) After

man problem

1999-04-14 Thread William R Pentney
When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says can't remove /tmp/name of a temp file: No such file or directory. Anything I can do about this? - Bill

Re: man problem (NEVER MIND)

1999-04-14 Thread William R Pentney
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, William R Pentney wrote: Never mind, it's working - it just took a long time. I feel sufficiently stupid now. :-) When I run man on certain topics, it will now just twiddle its thumbs until I Ctrl-C it, at which point it says can't remove /tmp/name of a temp file: No such

Re: Current kernel configuration?

1999-04-14 Thread Robbie Huffman
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 04:43:10PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: The only way I know of to get a SoundBlaster working 'with-out' compiling it into the kernel is to purchase the OSS commercial Sound package for $20. That has it's advantages. It is the way I run my sound blaster. How about

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Luis Villa
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a component? Is this historical or what? Thanks again- Luis

on bytes-per-inode Q

1999-04-14 Thread Chadi
Hello List, May I know at how many bytes-per-inode is the default debian (slink) install at ? Or, in my already working debian system, how do i know how many bytes/inode is it presently set at ? I am about to add a new hd as my /home and i want to make sure I make2fs them in uniform. TIA,

MP3 encoder?

1999-04-14 Thread Andrei Ivanov
DOes anyone know of mp3 encoder for Linux? If yes, where would I be able to find one? TIA, Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354

Re: APT setup (was: Re: An idea...)

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: Try http://non-us.debian.org/debian as the URL. Thanks, Mitch. It works, and I happily have ssh. I'm still curious, though: why is non-US called a distribution in apt, when it is in fact a component? Is this

KDE

1999-04-14 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I am trying to install KDE but running into problem. What's happening is that when I run make it says it can't find the command g++ to compile. This is during the Qt compilation. I tried to install g++ but I'm getting a weird conflict a sort of catch 22 if you will. Apparently g++

PDC-prolog available for Linux

1999-04-14 Thread Johann Spies
In my Dos-days I tried out PDC-prolog and since then I regularly received newsletters from them. Today I received a newsletter with a CD with Visiual Prolog 5.1 Personal edition on it for MS-Windows 3.x/95/98, NT, OS/2, SCO Unix and Linux. It is free for non-commercial use. Check out

OCR for linux (fwd)

1999-04-14 Thread Johann Spies
I saw the following message on another mailing list: -- Forwarded message -- To: glug [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Dr M Braun [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: GLUG: OCR for linux Hi there I have found OCR for linux ( commercial ) URL:http://www.vividata.com/ocrshop.html however the prices

Re: on bytes-per-inode Q

1999-04-14 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: Hello List, May I know at how many bytes-per-inode is the default debian (slink) install at ? Or, in my already working debian system, how do i know how many bytes/inode is it presently set at ? I am about to add a new hd as my /home and i want to make

Re: Install problem

1999-04-14 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am installing Debian GNU/Linux for Intel 486 from floppies, since the old computer I'm experimenting with doesn't have a CD-ROM drive. I downloaded the following files so far: resc1440.bin resc1440tecra.bin drv1440.bin drv1440tecra.bin base14-1.bin to

input tk_Brief into Debian?

1999-04-14 Thread Ralf Mueller
Hello, Do you want to put tk_Brief (http://krisralf.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de/tk_Brief/) into the Debian-Distribution? It is a GUI for easily writing letters with LaTeX. Can anyone help me making a .deb-package? Thank you very much. Please write also to my email because I did not subscribe the

Re: cfs???

1999-04-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 04:19:40PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: Thanks for the advice, I have found the source for TCFS but it seems to want to patch everything, does anyone know where the source code for cfs is? I'd like to be able to use a cfs without having to change other parts of the

Re: cfs???

1999-04-14 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 04:19:40PM +0100, Andrew Holmes wrote: Thanks for the advice, I have found the source for TCFS but it seems to want to patch everything, does anyone know where the source code for cfs is? I'd like to be able to use a cfs without having to change other parts of the

printing ansi strings

1999-04-14 Thread scratch
Hi everybody, I have a small but annoying problem. I want to display ansi strings (escaped sequences) on the console. For example, when I do cat /usr/doc/bitchx/bx.ans This gives a the right colors, but wrong characters. Normally, I would get nice shaded blocks (the ones in your ascii table),

Re: ATI RAGE IIC PCI

1999-04-14 Thread Matus fantomas Uhlar
- i did the same (d/l mach64 Xserver from xfree86.org) - but the Xserver eats lot of my memory, top says it's 50% (i have 32 megs of - RAM) - - probably something's wrong... - - My Xserver (XF86_SVGA) eats 17388kb mem. I believe that is normal. i wouldn't say that :) my SVGA ets only 5 MB

Re: mounting floppy disk

1999-04-14 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Jiri Baum [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Gonz_lez Gasull: I have problems mounting /dev/fd0: # mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/fd0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) Jens B. Jorgensen:

Re: Any way to convert Word 7 files?

1999-04-14 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a nasty feeling the answer is going to be no, but I wonder whether there is any way to convert or read a Word 7 file on linux? Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all who replied about this. A lot of you suggested WP8 but I

Re: Switching pine to mutt - but...

1999-04-14 Thread Daniel González Gasull
Hi! Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. I have three mail folders. Instead of typing the location of each folder, can I configure a shortcut key to go to each folder? You can type +foo instead of /path/to/foo, if the folder foo is in your mail directory (usally $HOME/Mail/ or $HOME/mail/.

Re: rm'ing directories

1999-04-14 Thread Peter Weiss
On Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:50:04 -0600, John Greer [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: John I was installing a few programs on my system (hamm) and now that I John have tried them out I don't really want them I tried to rm them off of John the system rm -rd directory but it will not remove them. I tried as a

Re: Library update failure continues...

1999-04-14 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Curt Howland: My bug report got no action, since the suggested package to solve the library problem will not install without the missing file. I don't know where the file comes from (my system has libdb.so.2), but if you need a file out of a package, you can always ar x and tar x to

Re: vmware and kernel header mismatches...

1999-04-14 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:23:51PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, Apr 13, 1999 at 02:01:46PM -0800, Adam Shand wrote: it appears that i've got some default debian headers which aren't updated when i compile my kernel. what is the approved way for me to fix this so i won't break anything?

Re: problems w/pppd 2.3.7

1999-04-14 Thread Jeremy
On 12 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote: Now, only root can run pon, even though my users are in the dip group. What are the permissions on /etc/chatscripts, /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp, and /etc/ppp/peers? drwxr-s--- 2 root dip 1024 Apr 12 08:17 /etc/chatscripts

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