Re: g++

1999-04-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 23:11:56 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: > > In a configure script, this is the outcome: > > > configure: error: installation or configuration problem: C++ compiler > > cannot create executables. > > Run configure with the '-v' ar

Re: printer problem

1999-04-16 Thread Mark Phillips
> I sent this a few days ago but have gotten no response, so I'll try again. > > I have a Hamm system. > I've been trying about setting up a Tek printer and have lpd > confused. If I go into lpc and ask for status lp2 I get > > > lpc> status lp2 > lp2: > queuing is enabled > pr

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-16 Thread Russell Rademacher
Okay... I checked the process by ps x and seen that diald is running. Unfortunably, the dial-on demand is not working yet as I tried doing lynx, ftp or ping from root or user account. As for the package version, it is diald_0.16.5-3.deb version. So...any more clues? I me

RE: Should I be worried about this?

1999-04-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Apr-99 Matt wrote: > I sent an email to this list a while ago, and then I got the following. > Was there a problem with my original message? > > Matt No. The problem is explained with limpid clarity in the message which was returned to you: > - megtelt a cimzett levelesladaja. In other wo

Re: trouble with LILO

1999-04-16 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
I had similar problem (actually also on 486 33 MHz.) I've solved it by overwriting master boot record. I.e. put in /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda instead of boot=/dev/hda1 and run lilo again. That should fix it. Sergey. On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Brian Morgan wrote: > I just got done installing D

Re: trouble with LILO

1999-04-16 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: trouble with LILO Date: Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 03:00:03PM -0500 In reply to:Brian Morgan Quoting Brian Morgan([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I just got done installing Debian 2.1 on a 486 33mhz machine. When > rebooting after the install, it hangs on LILO, with the "LI" appearing

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

1999-04-16 Thread Matt
Dan Nguyen wrote: > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > : Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > : :It's unfortunate that the Debian install is difficult in comparison to > : :RedHat. Having just switched to Debian 2.1 from RH 5.2, I think the

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

1999-04-16 Thread Jae W. Chang
Yes, dselect isn't perfect. It doesn't have the most intuitive UI but... It'll also do the most amazing, surprising thing... actually work! Even when I don't expect it to work, it works! Several times while upgrading from hamm or whatever and seeing a list of 100 packages needing to be upgraded,

Re: Dell Poweredge 1300 can't boot kernel 2.0.36

1999-04-16 Thread Pete Templin
On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Ossama Othman wrote: > On 15 Apr, Pete Templin wrote: > > > > I'm trying to set up a Poweredge 1300 (with integrated Adaptec 7890 Ultra2 > > LVD SCSI controller) on a custom kernel v2.0.36 (added support for the > > AIC-7xxx, of course), and I get the following error mes

Re: SMC Ether Power II problem

1999-04-16 Thread Amal Phadke
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, rob wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a problem with my SMC Ether Power II PCI card. > It doesn't work. > Could anyone tell me if LINUX supports this hardware and if it does what > to do to set it up. > > Thanks for your help! > Robert According to HC-Howto, SMC EtherPower II i

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

1999-04-16 Thread Dan Nguyen
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, : Luca Filipozzi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : :It's unfortunate that the Debian install is difficult in comparison to : :RedHat. : In some ways, I actually think it's hard compared to Slackware. And : that's BAD..

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-16 Thread John Hasler
Russell Rademacher writes: > Okay... Got it re-installed and pulled a copy from the /usr/doc/diald the > diald.options which is missing... Still missing? What version of diald do you have? Sounds like a bug. Did you purge the previous diald installation before reinstalling? > What other sectio

Mailman system_aliases director error

1999-04-16 Thread Kevin Lee
I have the Mailman web administration and user adminstration functions working now. This seems like a huge improvement over Majordomo/MajorCool. I am getting the following error: Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of |var/lib/mailman/m

Re: Should I be worried about this?

1999-04-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
Nope, that just means one of the list subscribers has a full mailbox. They'll probably get removed from the list automatically after a certain number of messages bounce (if the list is configured to do that). Havoc

Re: How to add a user with NIS?

1999-04-16 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ryan Losh) writes: > > > > I'm afraid I didn't get the point with NIS. I installed the nis.deb on > > all our machines on the local network and followed the instructions in > > /usr/doc/nis/nis.debian.howto carefully: setting up a master and the > > clients. > > > > 1) Add the

Should I be worried about this?

1999-04-16 Thread Matt
I sent an email to this list a while ago, and then I got the following. Was there a problem with my original message? Matt Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: from [194.143.248.34] (helo=egon.gyaloglo.hu) by draughts.freeuk.net with esmtp (Exim 2.

Re: Dual Boot Linux/NT and ATI Rage IIc video

1999-04-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Apr, John Gay wrote about "Dual Boot Linux/NT and ATI Rage IIc video" > [NT stuff I don't know about] > > Problem 2. > My system has an ATI Rage IIc video card. I have seen quite a bit of > discussion > concerning this family of cards. When I tried to set up X Window, the Mach 64 > drive

XDM doesn't start after Gnome installation!

1999-04-16 Thread Marcio Cordero
Hi, I re-installed gnome (gmc gnome-control-center gnome-panel gnome-session gnome-game gnome-terminal gnome-utils) with the apt-get installation tool from Debian after an erroneous installation. This far, I didn't have any trouble or error message. Of course, some libs had to be updated to fulfill

Re: Dual Boot Linux/NT and ATI Rage IIc video

1999-04-16 Thread Alec Smith
Did you dd the Linux bootsector for use in the NT bootloader? Also, did you install NT on an NTFS or FAT partition? If you formatted the NT drive NTFS, you'll need to use a floppy for this, then copy it onto the C: drive. If C: is FAT mount the C: drive on /mnt OR with a floppy mount /dev/fd0 on

Re: Panasonic CF-M32 install

1999-04-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 04:31:43PM -0400, Havoc Pennington wrote: > Problem is that the 2.1 rescue disk doesn't quite work. The boot screen > comes up, I press return, it loads the kernel off the disk; then when I'd > normally expect the kernel messages to start scrolling by, it > spontaneously re

Dual Boot Linux/NT and ATI Rage IIc video

1999-04-16 Thread John Gay
I just got a new PC ( YEA!!!) and loaded WindowsNT onto it ( BOO!!!) to get me by until I'm more familiar with Linux. I downloaded the Dual boot Linux from NT HOW-TO and followed the instructions, more or less. Here is my current situation. WindowsNT resides on hda1, the bootable partition. 2Gb.

Re: Panasonic CF-M32 install

1999-04-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
Of course, I'm a moron and this is one of the few questions in the FAQ. Thanks, Havoc

Kernel compiling errors

1999-04-16 Thread homega
I just had an error while running `make zInstall': gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.0.35/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strength-reduce -pipe -m486 -malign-loops=2 -malign-jumps=2 -malign-functions=2 -DCPU=586 -c -o ide.o ide.c {standard input}: Assembler mes

Panasonic CF-M32 install

1999-04-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, I just got one of these; it's a cute little subnotebook. Naturally I want to put Debian on it. Problem is that the 2.1 rescue disk doesn't quite work. The boot screen comes up, I press return, it loads the kernel off the disk; then when I'd normally expect the kernel messages to start scroll

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-16 Thread Dan Brosemer
On 16 Apr 1999, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > FWIW, I use sympatico.ca and so I can explain how I worked around the > > problem. But first of all, the exact nature of the problem is, as I > > believe you both guessed, that smtp1.sympatico.ca verifies the d

Mailman error

1999-04-16 Thread Kevin Lee
I have been receiving the following messages in my /var/lib/mailman/logs/smtp-failures. I am using Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 and mailman 1.0b8-3 from the Debian distribution site. Please be easy on me I'm a Linux newbie. May 04 11:14:27 1999 TrySMTPDelivery: To ['[EMAIL PROTECTED]']: May 04 11:14:27

gnome working correctly?

1999-04-16 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I've gone ahead and upgraded my gnome installation to the potato deb from the web site and have discovered that it produces a slew of error upon exiting from X windows with gnome running. I'm running the exec gnome-session in the file /etc/X11/window-managers and also in my home

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-16 Thread Arcady Genkin
Dan Brosemer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > FWIW, I use sympatico.ca and so I can explain how I worked around the > problem. But first of all, the exact nature of the problem is, as I > believe you both guessed, that smtp1.sympatico.ca verifies the domain that > is sent in the MAIL FROM: line. No

trouble with LILO

1999-04-16 Thread Brian Morgan
I just got done installing Debian 2.1 on a 486 33mhz machine. When rebooting after the install, it hangs on LILO, with the "LI" appearing on the screen. doesn't ever go anywhere after that. Booting from the boot floppy appears to work fine. Is there any way to correct this? I've installed the

Re: TV SPECIAL ON LINUX./GUEST APPEARANCE.

1999-04-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 15:35:20 -0400, Michael Sweet wrote: > We will then focus in on how our guests bring productivity and > profitability to the companies that they do business with via their > products and services. The Debian project, in contrast to many Linux distribution development organi

printer problem

1999-04-16 Thread harsh
Hi All, I sent this a few days ago but have gotten no response, so I'll try again. I have a Hamm system. I've been trying about setting up a Tek printer and have lpd confused. If I go into lpc and ask for status lp2 I get lpc> status lp2 lp2: queuing is enabled printing is e

Amanda rescue floppy

1999-04-16 Thread Max
I would like to make a floppy that would allow me to boot up my system from that floppy and contain all of the Amanda tools that would allow me to recover my hard drive file systems in the event something goes wrong. Has anyone set up something like this? Any pointers would be greatly appreciated

Re: Help Needed with install "Choose Debian archive path"

1999-04-16 Thread Fabio Olive Leite
Ola! > My question is: > if the path is > /dists/slink/main/binary-a/ > do I use the first '"/" ? > do I use the last "/" ? > Do I need to include the "Package" file inside "binary-a" ? IIRC, if you are installing from official CDs you don't have to set anything special on this path. The install

TV SPECIAL ON LINUX./GUEST APPEARANCE.

1999-04-16 Thread Michael Sweet
Hello, I am a television producer with The Executive Forum Television Series, which is nationally syndicated on ABC, CBS, NBC, WB, UPN, Fox and PAX affiliates. The host of our TV show is astronaut and Commander of the heroic Apollo 13 Moon Mission, Captain James A. Lovell. Currently we are in pro

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-16 Thread Dan Brosemer
FWIW, I use sympatico.ca and so I can explain how I worked around the problem. But first of all, the exact nature of the problem is, as I believe you both guessed, that smtp1.sympatico.ca verifies the domain that is sent in the MAIL FROM: line. Note that it doesn't care about you being inside th

Re: FW: Problem with debian-user-list? [Hiba: error installing ker nel source]

1999-04-16 Thread Brian Servis
It means that someone who is subscribed to the list has a broken mailer that does not follow the headers correctly when bouncing messages for whatever reason. In this case a full mailbox. The bounce should go back the list and get trapped by the listserver software. If you get messages like this,

Re: FW: Problem with debian-user-list? [Hiba: error installing kernel source]

1999-04-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 21:17:32 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just sent a message to debian-user@lists.debian.org, and it made it > through to the list straight away, but I also go this reply from somewhere > else. > > I SENT the message to and only to debian-user, it was not a reply or els

Re: FW: Problem with debian-user-list?

1999-04-16 Thread Fabio Olive Leite
Hi! > I just sent a message to debian-user@lists.debian.org, and it made it through > to the list straight away, but I also go this reply from somewhere else. > I SENT the message to and only to debian-user, it was not a reply or else. > What does this mean? This means this user from .hu is a sub

Re: SMC Ether Power II problem

1999-04-16 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Kernel 2.2.x supports SMC EtherPower II card. You need to enable development in the first option. Cheers, Vaidhy On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 07:08:44AM +0200, rob wrote: > Hi everyone, > I have a problem with my SMC Ether Power II PCI card. > It doesn't work. > Could anyone tell me if LINUX support

FW: Problem with debian-user-list? [Hiba: error installing kernel source]

1999-04-16 Thread homega
I just sent a message to debian-user@lists.debian.org, and it made it through to the list straight away, but I also go this reply from somewhere else. I SENT the message to and only to debian-user, it was not a reply or else. What does this mean? Horacio. - Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROT

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-16 Thread John Hasler
George Bonser writes: > That would be ok provided: > 1. He never says HELO sympatico.com Why? His dynamic IP will resolve to the corresponding sympatico.ca hostname just as mine resolves to a win.bright.net one. I am elk-iqx2-cs-32.win.bright.net [208.149.150.158] right now. I say HELO win.bri

Re: Diald Setup

1999-04-16 Thread Russell Rademacher
Okay... Got it re-installed and pulled a copy from the /usr/doc/diald the diald.options which is missing from the /usr/diald and edited it to similar like yours. I also set up the connection using ppp-config and tested the ttyS1 which works. Now... I tried from the root using lynx

error installing kernel source

1999-04-16 Thread homega
Hi, I tried to unpack/install kernel 2.0.35 source tarball in /usr/src, and it gave me the following error (with `tar zxvf linux-2.0.35.tar.gz'): gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors though it has created linux/

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1999-04-16 Thread Paul Kirschner
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Re: Mouse & XF86Setup

1999-04-16 Thread shaleh
A ps/2 mouse is /dev/psaux. So you should use that. I make a link /dev/mouse -> /dev/psaux ANd use /dev/mouse. That way if the device chnges (I get a serial), I just change the link. The M$ mouse option should work.

Why does Netscape hang

1999-04-16 Thread Matt
I'm running Netscape 4.5 on Debian 2.1 (I'm a newbie with Linux). I am using a Netscape tar.gz file from a magazine CD (it is the glibc2 version of Netscape). I log on as a non-root user. Netscape starts fine and I can browse without problems. But when I try to use the 'Messenger' part of the progr

Mouse & XF86Setup

1999-04-16 Thread Brian Morgan
I'm using the XF86Setup to configure X on my Debian 2.1 box. I simply can't get any ps/2 mice to work. I've tried all the devices with the Microsoft and PS/2 protocols selected. No response ever. If I choose the wrong device (psaux, for example), the system will just freeze up completely, and I

Help Needed with install "Choose Debian archive path"

1999-04-16 Thread Ray Schultz
I'm trying to install Debian Slink. I get to the part of the install program where it says: Debian GNU/Linux Installation Main Menu Next: Install Operating System Kernel and Modules After I choose the Next option I get: Please select the medium you will use to install the system: I choose t

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-16 Thread John Hasler
George Bonser writes: > You probably can not simply call your system sympatico.com because the IP > address will not match the hostname. Have a look at dhs.org No, but he can configure his MTA to use an addrress in sympatico.ca on the "MAIL FROM:" SMTP command. This is the domain the lookups are

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread Alec Smith
Even my minimal Winwhatever systems which never did any real work couldn't go beyond a week... Now they do more work and go for 3+ months at a time with Debian 2.1/kernel 2.2.x :) On Fri, 16 Apr 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Don't worry about it. The linux bug workaroud deals VERY effective

RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Alec Smith
I believe cua* was dropped somewhere along the 2.1.x series... Its gone with 2.2.x On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Fabio Olive leite wrote: > Hi there, > > ] (the ttyS* and cua* devices are hardware-equivalent, but if I'm > ] not mistaken using the /dev/cua* device is better for dialin, which > ] you mig

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread shaleh
> Don't worry about it. The linux bug workaroud deals VERY effectively > with it. I have a dual pentium system with the same boot message. It has > been running Debian Linux for 3 years without ANY problem. HE! HE! > Windoze 98 will crap out after 49 days of continuous operation. That is actually

Re: kernel 2.2.5 symlinks

1999-04-16 Thread Fabio Olive leite
Hi! ] the README for Linux 2.0.36 kernel tells me, that /usr/include/{asm,linux,scsi} ] should be symlinks to /usr/src/linux/include/{asm,linux,scsi}, respectively. ] They aren't. They are normal directories. That's wrong, isn't it? The ] installation of Slink has done so. That's an old Linux is

RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Fabio Olive leite
Hi there, ] (the ttyS* and cua* devices are hardware-equivalent, but if I'm ] not mistaken using the /dev/cua* device is better for dialin, which ] you might want for a modem). Whoah! cua devices have been dropped from Debian (and Linux itself, so to speak) long ago and their use nowadays is _str

SMC Ether Power II problem

1999-04-16 Thread rob
Hi everyone, I have a problem with my SMC Ether Power II PCI card. It doesn't work. Could anyone tell me if LINUX supports this hardware and if it does what to do to set it up. Thanks for your help! Robert

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread Thomas Ruedas
Thank you very much for your replies. " Raymond A. Ingles" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 16 Apr 1999 15:13:07 - >Linux now implements a workaround that essentially allows the processor >to successfully reject the instruction instead of locking up. John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, 16 Apr 1999 11:56:45

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread John Foster
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. > > When booting I noticed the following message: > > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > > Workaround enabled. > > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. > > I h

Re: Specifying a proxy server for ftp

1999-04-16 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Rick Tan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I would like to use a proxy server with ftp. How do I specify this? | With http, I used http_proxy=htpp://proxyserver:port/ with great | success. I tried ftp_proxy but it didn't work. Personally I use ncftp. It can deal with a lot of firewall types and, i

Re: missing file (/etc/ld.so.preload)

1999-04-16 Thread Fabio Olive leite
Hi there, ] What I'm doing is running a pipe between two background processes. Opening ] pipe for reading and writing both fail "illegal seek". Does this qualify ] as "special requirements" ? Not at all. Probably your program is trying some funny file-oriented syscall on the pipe, so it fails.

Re: qt1g_1.42-1.deb

1999-04-16 Thread Martin Waller
>From: Ivan Litovski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: qt1g_1.42-1.deb >Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 14:16:06 +0200 > >Hi there. > >Is there, and where can I download stable qt1g_1.42-1.deb. > >Please hurry, I am inpatient to get kde working on my new slink... >

Fwd: How do you want to Linux today?

1999-04-16 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Note: forwarded message attached. === Amateur Radio, when all else fails! http://www.qsl.net/wa2mze Debian Gnu Linux, Live Free or . _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com --- Begin Message --- A

Specifying a proxy server for ftp

1999-04-16 Thread Rick Tan
I would like to use a proxy server with ftp. How do I specify this? With http, I used http_proxy=htpp://proxyserver:port/ with great success. I tried ftp_proxy but it didn't work. TIA

Re: OT: Network design

1999-04-16 Thread Dan Brosemer
On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Brant Wells wrote: > Hey Guys :) > > Mark Brown wrote: > > > 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

Re: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Small, Bradley wrote: > Problem #1, I have a modem on Com1. I know I do because Bill Gates tells me > I do when I run His OS. Try as I might I can't seem to convince Linux that > it is there. I assume that I should be using wvdial and when it ran the > configuration utility it

Re: printing problem

1999-04-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
Either edit /etc/magicfilter/dj500-filter to not use djscript (see the remarks in this file) or install the djtools package. Bob On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Mans Joling wrote: > Hi > On several questions on my printing problem. > When I type lpq it says no entries. > echo "test" >test > lpr test > Noti

Knews configuration probs

1999-04-16 Thread Steve Gore
Whenever I launch Knews, it connects to my news server and downloads the list of active newsgroups. This doesn't seem necessary, and takes several minutes. What I would like is for only new groups to be checked. Also, if I launch Knews w/o being connected to my ISP, I get 'error : no such host'.

Re: kernel 2.2.5 symlinks

1999-04-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
See /usr/doc/libc6/FAQ.Debian.gz for the rationale behind this. Bob On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Hi Armin, > > > those symlinks. But I've problems to compile some libraries. Someone > > told me, that this can be caused by different versions of installed > > includes or librarie

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Thomas Ruedas wrote: > I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. > When booting I noticed the following message: > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > Workaround enabled. > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. Ther

Re: new ATI graphics boards

1999-04-16 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Pavel Mores wrote: > On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Jeff Noxon wrote: > > > You might be better off avoiding ATI graphics boards under Linux. ATI is > > not cooperative with the developer community and drivers tend to take a > > while to get written & stabilize. [...] > It's too bad

Re: ATI Xpert@Play 98 with Xwindows

1999-04-16 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 16 Apr, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] 98 with Xwindows" > My graphics card is the ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] 98 which is not supported by > Xserver > version 3.3.2... , but is supported by 3.3.3.1, which is not listed in > dselect. I was wondering when and if it would be

Re: ATI Xpert@Play 98 with Xwindows

1999-04-16 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, you should actually be able to just download the server binary from XFree and install just that. You can get it here ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/3.3.3.1/binaries/Linux-ix86-glibc/Servers/ (although I don't know which one you need, they're all in there). This should cause too much trou

RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Apr-99 Small, Bradley wrote: >>You may well have the modem on /dev/ttyS0 = COM1, but you probably also >>have your mouse there as well. In that case you are likely to hit >>interrupt conflicts, and Linux will only see one of the devices. > > I don't think so, since my mouse is a "ps/2" mouse

Re: file system vfat

1999-04-16 Thread Arcady Genkin
Richard Harran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That's the one: > $lsmod > vfat4 2 > > I didn't have vfat as a module in the kernel either, but I guess it > doesn't need to be. So you *do* have it as module. Kerneld autoloads it automatically whenever you need it to mount a vf

Re: missing file (/etc/ld.so.preload)

1999-04-16 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 21:58:36 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What I'm doing is running a pipe between two background processes. > Opening pipe for reading and writing both fail "illegal seek". Does this > qualify as "special requirements" ? No. > In any event I'm curious now to know what t

Re: printer won't print

1999-04-16 Thread Patrick Ouellette
Which canon printer? Did you change *anything* else on the system between when it worked and now? Specifically check the printer port device setup. The printer numbers got changed not so long ago (i.e. lp0 and lp1 may be reversed). -- Patrick Ouellette Assistant Computer Engineer Engineering C

Re: printing problem [SOLVED]

1999-04-16 Thread Mans Joling
Richard Harran wrote: > The problem is coming from the /etc/magicfilter/dj500-filter script. > > I had a look at mine, and the last line is: > default filter /usr/bin/djscript -q > which is the command which you don't have. This is for printing normal > text files. Above

Re: SMBMOUNT won't

1999-04-16 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: SMBMOUNT won't > Date: Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 01:56:16PM +0200 > > In reply to:Mirek Kwasniak > > Quoting Mirek Kwasniak([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Thu, Apr 15, 1999 at 10:25:52AM -0400, Alec Smith wrote: > > > Got a sample syntax? I use > > > > >

RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Small, Bradley
>You may well have the modem on /dev/ttyS0 = COM1, but you probably also >have your mouse there as well. In that case you are likely to hit >interrupt conflicts, and Linux will only see one of the devices. I don't think so, since my mouse is a "ps/2" mouse rather than a serial mouse. It could poss

Re: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> > Problem #1, I have a modem on Com1. I know I do because Bill Gates tells me > I do when I run His OS. Try as I might I can't seem to convince Linux that > it is there. I assume that I should be using wvdial and when it ran the > configuration utility it said that it didn't detect any modem. So

Re: new ATI graphics boards

1999-04-16 Thread Pavel Mores
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Jeff Noxon wrote: > You might be better off avoiding ATI graphics boards under Linux. ATI is > not cooperative with the developer community and drivers tend to take a > while to get written & stabilize. I've suffered through problems with > several generations of Mach64 card

Re: printing problem

1999-04-16 Thread Richard Harran
The problem is coming from the /etc/magicfilter/dj500-filter script. I had a look at mine, and the last line is: default filter /usr/bin/djscript -q which is the command which you don't have. This is for printing normal text files. Above this it suggests using something

ATI Xpert@Play 98 with Xwindows

1999-04-16 Thread billy_bob
My graphics card is the ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] 98 which is not supported by Xserver version 3.3.2... , but is supported by 3.3.3.1, which is not listed in dselect. I was wondering when and if it would be added to the dselect list, or how can I install xserver-mach64 version 3.3.3.1 without using d

RE: Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Ted Harding
On 16-Apr-99 Small, Bradley wrote: > > Problem #1, I have a modem on Com1. I know I do because Bill Gates > tells me I do when I run His OS. Try as I might I can't seem to > convince Linux that it is there. I assume that I should be using > wvdial and when it ran the configuration utility it said

Re: missing file (/etc/ld.so.preload)

1999-04-16 Thread ivan
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 12:48:48PM +0200, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 18:19:14 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The strace log gives the following error > > open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= -1 ENOENT (No such file or > > directory) > > > I checked the directory and

Re: My (hamm) installation tale (long)

1999-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Richard Losey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I had a 1.6G drive and a 4.3G drive in that computer. The 1.6G is the > original disk and the 4.3G was an add-on. I decided to reserve 500M on the > 1.6G for Windows and use the rest for Linux. > > First problem: The boot.bat script was not in the docum

Re: new ATI graphics boards

1999-04-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Stephan Engelke wrote: > I am thinking of upgrading my computer's graphics board to > either one of the two new ATI cards: ATI Rage Magnum or ATI Rage Fury. > Now I am wondering if anyone has any experience with either one of > these two boards? How do they perform under X11

Re: KDE .deb libs problem

1999-04-16 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Fri, 16 Apr 1999, Damon Muller wrote: > I downloaded the kde 1.1 debs from a local kde mirror, and installed > them without any problem on my freshly installed, pure-slink box. > I had to install qt from potato: > ii qt1g1.42-2 Shared Library used by applications linked > w

Re: KDE .deb libs problem

1999-04-16 Thread Paul Kirschner
in your local kde ftp site, look in /pub/kde/Incoming/debian to get the latest *.deb's. This solved the problem for me. Damon Muller wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > I downloaded the kde 1.1 debs from a local kde mirror, and installed > them without any problem on my freshly installed, pure-slink box.

Re: new ATI graphics boards

1999-04-16 Thread Jeff Noxon
You might be better off avoiding ATI graphics boards under Linux. ATI is not cooperative with the developer community and drivers tend to take a while to get written & stabilize. I've suffered through problems with several generations of Mach64 cards. Maybe the new boards work great already, but

Continuing saga...

1999-04-16 Thread Small, Bradley
Hi y'all and thanks for all the help so far.. Now I have X windows up and well it is cool so far. Just so everyone knows, when you D/L and install 3.3.3.1 of XFree86 you must also D/L the stuff in their "Servers" directory. Soon as I got the new SVGA server things got much better. Problem #1, I

Re: Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread shaleh
> > I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. > When booting I noticed the following message: > Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug > Workaround enabled. > Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. > I have a rather old machine with an Intel Pe

Can only print dvi

1999-04-16 Thread Christoph Gaitzsch
Hi all, I have a problem with printing something other than dvi-files with lprng/magicfilter on slink. Somehow magicfilter doesn't call gs (I can see dj500-filter in top a short time), but lpd thinks, it has printed with sucess: Any hints? Greetings, Christoph

Re: Some email bounces = misconfigured exim?

1999-04-16 Thread Mark Brown
On Fri, Apr 16, 1999 at 04:15:27AM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Oh boy... So what do you think I should do? Stuff sympatico.ca instead > of my local domain name and genkin instead of my local user name in > the exim configuration file? That would completely screw up the local > mail system then,

Pentium bug Q

1999-04-16 Thread Thomas Ruedas
I have recently switched from SuSE Linux to Debian and installed 2.0.34. When booting I noticed the following message: Intel Pentium with F0 0F bug Workaround enabled. Does somebody know what bug this is and what workaround is implemented. I have a rather old machine with an Intel Pentium 100 MHz,

Re: MICROSOFT BS FUD

1999-04-16 Thread David Wright
Quoting Mike Barton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I suppose you "just forgot" to post an even minor semblance of proof? Please > correct the error and let us all in on it. Better yet why not answer my > "iBCS anyone" post of a few days ago. Seeing as the modules in -2.0.34 and -2.0.35 compare equal, and

Re: Space problems

1999-04-16 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> I partitioned my HD also in a new way: smaller /dev/hda1 (/ 256Mb), larger > /dev/hda2 (/usr ab. 5Gb) and a swap /dev/hda3 (100mb). After installing and > apt-getting all the packages, I noticed that I was little short-sighted: > /dev/hda1 might run out of space pretty quickly. Having that much

Re: linux usage by well known sites

1999-04-16 Thread W. Paul Mills
http://www.olm.net Runs all it's servers with Linux and Apache. -- /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills

printing problem

1999-04-16 Thread Mans Joling
Hi On several questions on my printing problem. When I type lpq it says no entries. echo "test" >test lpr test Notihing happens. But I have looked in lp-errs and the are many lines with the following text /bin/sh: /usr/bin/djscript:No such file or directory /etc/magicfilter/dj500-filter: /usr/bin/

KDE .deb libs problem

1999-04-16 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, I downloaded the kde 1.1 debs from a local kde mirror, and installed them without any problem on my freshly installed, pure-slink box. I had to install qt from potato: ii qt1g1.42-2 Shared Library used by applications linked w As there wasn't a version of qt recen

qt1g_1.42-1.deb

1999-04-16 Thread Ivan Litovski
Hi there.     Is there, and where can I download stable qt1g_1.42-1.deb.     Please hurry, I am inpatient to get kde working on my new slink...   --  __ Litovski Ivan  Java Developer/System Engineer UNet I

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