Re: small problems after installing potato

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-May-99 Martin Bialasinski wrote: > >>> "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > P> software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the > P> default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). > > How did you build it? When you use kernel-package, you can use a >

Re: isapnp problems

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Quoting Paul Nathan Puri([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >> I'm trying to get the modem going. Windows reported that it sat on >> IRQ 4, on io port 0110-0117. >> "WT" == Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: WT> That is a strange looking port address. Common address for COM 1 WT> is 3F8 on 'normal' PC ha

Re: packages for dialing isp

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "M" == MallarJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: M> but KPPP refuses to do the job. XISP is nice, but I couldn't get M> it to dial over 38,000kbps for me for some reason. WVDial is what M> I use now. It's not Both are frontends to pppd, so as long as the same options are used, the result should

Re: Need help installing - can't find hdd

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Need help installing - can't find hdd Date: Sat, May 15, 1999 at 02:40:43PM -0700 In reply to:freefood Quoting freefood([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I cannot figure out how to get the debian boot program to recognize my > hdd. I have a 13.5GB hdd, so I know there are issues wit

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem? Date: Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:46:14PM +0100 In reply to:Kris Quoting Kris([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Problem: PPP works fine under kernel 2.0.36; under 2.2.x it connects, but > it seems like no packets go in or out. tcpdump only shows what

[ ppp-2.3.8 is out]

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Thought that this might be of interest to the Debian group. - Forwarded message from Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 16:27:20 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: linux-ppp@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: ppp-2.3.8 is out Reply-to: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-15 Thread Michelle Maria Coelho
Thank you for the prompt replies. I'll try what you said and I think it will work. I decided to split the swap among the disks because the Howto on Partitonioning a Hard Disk suggested this. I guess since I'll be the only user, I needn't have a /home partition. Are any other partitions besides / a

Re: smail problem

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SZ" == Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SZ> Some sites block the emails sent from an unqualified domain. How SZ> do I configure smail so that I can send the mail via a qualified SZ> smtp, or as it looks like my domain is qualified. First make sure you don't deliver mail directly to th

Re: small problems after installing potato

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "P" == Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: P> software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the P> default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). How did you build it? When you use kernel-package, you can use a revision number that is higher than any that could poss

Re: icewm-gnome config files

1999-05-15 Thread Tommy Malloy
Hi Tim Thanks for the help. Perhaps I was not clear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Well what you want to look at, is the menu of the gnome panel :-) That > will contain StarOffice. This is correct. Staroffice does appear in the menu of the gnome panel. I added it using the gnome menuing utility.

error in read()ing first

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
I am getting lots of these errors and have no idea what they mean. What is it all about? I have not seen these before. > May 15 22:35:16 lilypad /usr/sbin/gpm[156]: Error in read()ing first: No > such file or directory > May 15 22:35:16 lilypad /usr/sbin/gpm[156]: Error in read()ing first: No >

Re: Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-15 Thread William Park
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: ... > This is how I plan to partitiion the disks: > /hda1 40MB > swap hda2 8MB > /usr hda3 68MB > swap hdb1 8MB > /usr hdb2 250MB > > where hda is the 116

Re: Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:33:01PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: > Hi, > I read your FAQ and so I was wondering if you (or anyone elae out > there) could help me: > I have 2 disks: > 1) 116 MB 8 heads, 762 cylinders, 39 sectors per track > 2) 258MB 14 heads, 944 cylinders, 40 sectors per

Re: How do I load CDRom driver?

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 05:35:15PM -0500, Michelle Maria Coelho wrote: > Hi, > I read your article on command-line arguments at boot time and I was > wondering if you or anyone else > out there could perhaps help me out since you seem to be in the know of > this.. > I have installed Debian Linux Ve

How do I load CDRom driver?

1999-05-15 Thread Michelle Maria Coelho
Hi, I read your article on command-line arguments at boot time and I was wondering if you or anyone else out there could perhaps help me out since you seem to be in the know of this.. I have installed Debian Linux Version 2.x from floppies. I had no CDRom Drive at the time of installing. I bought a

Partitioning hard disk

1999-05-15 Thread Michelle Maria Coelho
Hi, I read your FAQ and so I was wondering if you (or anyone elae out there) could help me: I have 2 disks: 1) 116 MB 8 heads, 762 cylinders, 39 sectors per track 2) 258MB 14 heads, 944 cylinders, 40 sectors per track 16MB of RAM Debian Linux version 2 is the only operating system I plan to in

exim and UUCP

1999-05-15 Thread Thomas Adams
I need info on exim and UUCP. In slink's exim I found a little snippet about UUCP which allowed me to receive mail. I have no idea about sending mail via UUCP 'though. How should I do this? BTW, which config is best as preparation for a UUCP configuration, the SMTP or the local delivery?

Need help installing - can't find hdd

1999-05-15 Thread freefood
I cannot figure out how to get the debian boot program to recognize my hdd. I have a 13.5GB hdd, so I know there are issues with drives larger than 8GB, but I don't know how to resolve them. This is what I've done: hard boot using rescue floppy. F4 info screen says that I need to specify params fo

Re: Packages.gz

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-May-99 Bob Nielsen wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:37:30PM -, Pollywog wrote: >> Now that I upgraded to Potato, with apt-get, I am unable to use dselect to >> update packages. It wants Package.gz files but I am uncertain how >> to proceed. Can anyone suggest where I might find step

Re: Kernel patches needed for running Informix Dynamic Server Linux Edition

1999-05-15 Thread Adam Di Carlo
"F. Fernandez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd like to know where can I find the patches to recompile the kernel > 2.0.36 and/or 2.2.x so that the system supports more open files. > > [...]They also say that the 2.2.5 that comes with > RH6.0 already has been patched to work with Informix and Ora

Re: Mouse problems

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:51:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm trying to run X Windows, but it appears I never installed my mouse. Is > there any way to do this once I'm past the initial setup? I really don't > want to reinstall the entire thing, because I'm doing it off floppies. I

Re: Packages.gz

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 06:37:30PM -, Pollywog wrote: > Now that I upgraded to Potato, with apt-get, I am unable to use dselect to > update packages. It wants Package.gz files but I am uncertain how > to proceed. Can anyone suggest where I might find step-by-step information on > this? Will

Re: icewm-gnome config files

1999-05-15 Thread deblists
On 14 May, Tommy Malloy wrote: > I added Staroffice to the Gnome menu, but it does not appear when I use > icewm-gnome as my window mangager. It does appear if I run gnome with > other window managers including icewm. icewm-gnome must be reading a > different config file or something. Can anyone

Re: Mouse problems

1999-05-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 03:51:25PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i'm trying to run X Windows, but it appears I never installed my mouse. Is > there any way to do this once I'm past the initial setup? I really don't > want to reinstall the entire thing, because I'm doing it off floppies. I

Re: Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 15 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: > > Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? > > The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it now. Any help would be > > appreciated. > > That would be libc6.1 or glibc2.1 same thing. Yes, but it doesn't do a slink user

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-15 Thread Patrick Kirk
Linux is a very intense learning experience that forces you to ponder security, the right gui, the nature of your hardware and the applications you really need and to configure programs to implement ways of managing all these things. I am new to this in that I installed Debian for the first tim

RE: Apt-get (dselect) wants to remove everything, by default

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-May-99 Pollywog wrote: > Did you upgrade with 'dist-upgrade' or with some other command? > Even I did not experience anything this bad. I have a few problems, but I > think apt-get is great. > > I did have to manually install a few held back packages for which I did not > have requisite pa

Re: printing broken

1999-05-15 Thread dyer
Sheehan wrote: > hi, > > I recently upgraded my system from 2.0 to 2.1. After the upgrade, ppp was > broken. Because I had been using an old kernel (2.0.36) I decided to > upgrade the kernel. I upgraded to 2.2.5, and everything eweny ok. I > compiled parrallel port support and parallel printer a

Get thee behind me emacs20!

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Bernstein
I have never got the install of emacs20 (the deb package) right on this machine. Since it was cluttering up every use of apt, I decided to put emacs19 on the machine and remove emacs20. I can't remove it. A typescript of the remove attempt is provided. Here's what 'dpkg --list' shows for these cr

Re: x problem

1999-05-15 Thread Andrei Ivanov
xvidtune could be the answer. At least this is how I deal with my monitor screen problems, when I start it up. Sounds exactly like your problem. Andrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Apt-get (dselect) wants to remove everything, by default

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
On 15-May-99 Bryan Scaringe wrote: > Another stupid dselect question: > > I have upgraded my system to potato. Now, whenever I start up dselect, > (using apt-get, and set to the unstable branch), nearly everything > is set to "remove" by default. I'm talking about required stuff > like "bash" a

printing broken

1999-05-15 Thread Sheehan
hi, I recently upgraded my system from 2.0 to 2.1. After the upgrade, ppp was broken. Because I had been using an old kernel (2.0.36) I decided to upgrade the kernel. I upgraded to 2.2.5, and everything eweny ok. I compiled parrallel port support and parallel printer as modules. Now when I try

x problem

1999-05-15 Thread Steve Kondik
i'm using slink, with xfree upgraded to 3.3.3.1, with a diamond viper 550 and a sony 100es monitor. in the console, the screen is perfectly centered, while in x at any resolution, the screen is moved (black gap) down and to the right about a half an inch. it looks like the screen is being drawn t

Mouse problems

1999-05-15 Thread Morgoth3
i'm trying to run X Windows, but it appears I never installed my mouse. Is there any way to do this once I'm past the initial setup? I really don't want to reinstall the entire thing, because I'm doing it off floppies. I have a 3 button Logitech Mouseman...does anyone know a way I can install

Apt-get (dselect) wants to remove everything, by default

1999-05-15 Thread Bryan Scaringe
Another stupid dselect question: I have upgraded my system to potato. Now, whenever I start up dselect, (using apt-get, and set to the unstable branch), nearly everything is set to "remove" by default. I'm talking about required stuff like "bash" and "tar"! I know I can go through by hand and f

Re: VIM questions

1999-05-15 Thread flip
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 10:45:48AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 3) In the long running debian coding standards debate on devel, it was > mentioned that tabs shouldn't be used to indent, but spaces instead. How do > I set up vim to insert n amount of spaces when I press the TAB key? Or

Packages.gz

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
Now that I upgraded to Potato, with apt-get, I am unable to use dselect to update packages. It wants Package.gz files but I am uncertain how to proceed. Can anyone suggest where I might find step-by-step information on this? Will I have to wait until a Potato CD is released or should I forget ab

Re: Gnome

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RM" == Richard Miles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> xterm -ls -geometry 80x24+0+63 & >> xterm -ls -geometry 80x24+515+63 & >> /usr/bin/X11/fvwm2 & >> /usr/bin/panel RM> I have a couple of questions concerning the .xsession script. RM> Will calling gnome session load enlightenment, and whatev

Re: Glade for Slink

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "PHBdO" == Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PHBdO> But gnome-stage-slink (and now slink dist) doesnt have glade, PHBdO> only potato. It does now. Ciao, Martin

Re: Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Eric Bass wrote: > Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? > The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it now. Any help would be appreciated. Have they said that they aren't putting out a glibc2 version like they did for all the betas? I sent

Re: timzones and libc6 in the unstable branch

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 12:54:44PM -0400, Bryan Scaringe wrote: > I was trying to update some packages off of the unstable branch, > and noticed that required package "timezones" was selected for removal. > Upon setting it for installation, I was greeted with the > conflicts/dependancy screen (in d

Re: Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 02:00:29PM -0400, Eric Bass wrote: > Stupid question of the day. :) > > Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? > The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it now. Any help would be appreciated. Get the libc6 package(s) in unstable. Bob -

Re: Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Alec Smith
glibc2.1 is basically Potato -- Debian 2.2. Take a look in there, and beware... Things might break. On Sat, 15 May 1999, Eric Bass wrote: > Stupid question of the day. :) > > Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? > The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it

Where is gnulibc2.1?

1999-05-15 Thread Eric Bass
Stupid question of the day. :) Is gnulibc2.1 available as a debian package somewhere? If so, then where? The [EMAIL PROTECTED] client requires it now. Any help would be appreciated. Eric

Re: Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Kris writes: > Problem: PPP works fine under kernel 2.0.36; under 2.2.x it connects, but > it seems like no packets go in or out. Ppp is known to have problems with 2.2.X. > ...not _any_ remote IPs (including my nameservers). How about the far end of the ppp link? > -am and -vj make no differen

Re: dpkg problem

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
download the package : et and do : dpkg -i your_package_name.deb after what try to remove it with apt-get like you do before

Wordperfect Display

1999-05-15 Thread Michael Laing
The characters are awfully ugly Is there any way to improve the on-screen display? Michael Laing

small problems after installing potato

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
I have had some small problems after installing potato. (I upgraded via the web from Slink). The worst problem is that whenever I try to configure the newly installed software with dselect, it tries to upgrade my custom kernel to the default 2.2.5 kernel (my custom kernel is also 2.2.5). If I sa

Re: apt sources line

1999-05-15 Thread Dietmar Schultz
On Sun, 25 Apr 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: > > Then you need a sources.list line of > > deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists proposed-updates/ > when apt-get tried to download them I got some error messages telling me > that the files weren't plain files (or something to that effect). > > What does

lost keyboard config file

1999-05-15 Thread Monte Copeland
I actually have two problems. The first is that I have no backspace button. A previous debian-user email had a solution to get the ALT key to act as the META key in emacs. Well , unfortunately when I tried the solution, the only result was the deletion or misplacement of my X keyboard config file.

Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem?

1999-05-15 Thread Kris
Problem: PPP works fine under kernel 2.0.36; under 2.2.x it connects, but it seems like no packets go in or out. tcpdump only shows what looks like things trying to get out, but not getting anything back (really technical, huh?). I can ping myself (localhost & local IP), but not _any_ remote IPs

timzones and libc6 in the unstable branch

1999-05-15 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I was trying to update some packages off of the unstable branch, and noticed that required package "timezones" was selected for removal. Upon setting it for installation, I was greeted with the conflicts/dependancy screen (in dselect) wich stated that timezones conflicted with libc6. However, libc

Re: Minimal requirements for xwindows and slave hard disk installation

1999-05-15 Thread Michelle Maria Coelho
I installed these packages, and then ran XF86Setup. After that I ran startx, all I got was a checkered (very fine checks) screen..No menu bar, etc..Also, my mouse seems only to remain in row 1. What could be the problem. Also, I did the installation for the latest version odf Debian as of Decembe

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: making linux look bad Date: Sat, May 15, 1999 at 08:38:58AM -0400 In reply to:David B.Teague Quoting David B.Teague([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Sat, 15 May 1999, tf wrote: > > > Hey everybody > > > > I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost

[off topic] Where have all the remailers gone

1999-05-15 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, Apologies for the slightly OT posting, but I was playing around with premail (which doesn't work), and decided to create myself another nym.alias.net address. Used to have one years ago, but it dies thru lack of maintentnce. I seem to have hit a snag tho... none of the finger addresses

Re: Emacs and suidunregister

1999-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I read the man page for suidregister, and it seems to me that when I > purged Emacs19 and Emacs20 (and all related binaries), not > everything was cleaned-up. It also seems to me that this might be a > bug. > > Can anyone confirm, or suggest what I did wrong? (I don'

Re: ssh @ pseudo ttys

1999-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
Ian Keith Setford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just installed a new box but when I try to ssh in I recieve this > error: > > Warning: Remote host failed or refused to allocate a pseudo tty > > Thisonly happens with sshas I can telnet in and out with no > problems. Anybody know where the prob

Re: What to do with a tape drive?

1999-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
Carl Mummert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The easiest way to do incremental backups is to use a prewritten > package. I used 'tob' for a while, and it worked fine, although you > may have to spend an hour or two configuring it the first time. Also well worth investigating is amanda (www.amanda.

Re: disabling sshd and gpm

1999-05-15 Thread Rune Linding Raun
i dont understand the removal at all its sounds crazy ssh is THE way of remote login and gpm is very essential in handling a virtual term On 14-May-99 Michael Procario wrote: > You only need to remove it from /etc/rc?.d. That way if you want to > turn it back on at some later time the actual scrip

Re: PPP problems.

1999-05-15 Thread John Hasler
Daniel Sladic writes: > Anyone know offhand what is causing this problem or what I can do to > figure out what is the problem? Did you run pppconfig? If so, post your /etc/chatscripts/provider, /etc/ppp/peers/provider, and the output of the 'plog' command. If not, put the options file back the w

Re: PPP woes

1999-05-15 Thread John Hasler
David Teague writes: > ppp has not been in default kernels I use. Only if you did not select it as a module when you installed. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: VIM questions

1999-05-15 Thread shaleh
> > I have a few questions regarding VIM that have been nagging at me for a > while, and I'm hoping someone can help me out... > > 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the > screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I > invoked from mutt it

VIM questions

1999-05-15 Thread Dave Swegen
I have a few questions regarding VIM that have been nagging at me for a while, and I'm hoping someone can help me out... 1) For some reason vim inists on showing file stats at the bottom of the screen whenever I edit a file. It isn't too bad normally, but when I invoked from mutt it waits for me t

netscape help

1999-05-15 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello World! > > When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 > it says :"Can't open display !!" > What can I do ? Please Help me

Re: netscape

1999-05-15 Thread Petru Paler
> Hello World! > > When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 > it says :"Can't open display !!" > What can I do ? Please Help me just start netscape *AFTER* your start X Windows.

Emacs and suidunregister

1999-05-15 Thread sgore
I'm getting this from cron: > /etc/cron.daily/suidmanager: > File /usr/lib/emacs/20.3/i386-debian-linux-gnu/movemail registered but not > installed > File /usr/lib/emacs/19.34/i386-debian-linux/movemail registered but not > installed I read the man page for suidregister, and it seems to me that w

netscape

1999-05-15 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello World! When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 it says :"Can't open display !!" What can I do ? Please Help me Andrea

netscape

1999-05-15 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello World! When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 it says :"Can't open display !!" What can I do ? Please Help me Andrea

netscape

1999-05-15 Thread Andrea Merello
Hello World! When, in X Windows, I try to start netscape 3.04 it says :"Can't open display !!" What can I do ? Please Help me Andrea

PPP problems.

1999-05-15 Thread Daniel Sladic
Up until now I have been using a Redhat 5.2 system and haven't had problems running PPP over a modem. I want to switch over to a Debian system but I can't get PPP to run for some strange reason. Here's some info. Hopefully someone can help. The Redhat system is using kernel 2.2.5 and pppd 2.3.5

Re: dselect and the unstable branch

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
try to see if you can change some files here or get the old dselect setting : /var/lib/dpkg

Umm... slink and potato bug?

1999-05-15 Thread Jim B
The version of lsof that I see in the slink and potato dists is only usable on kernels up to 2.0.35. Yet slink is a 2.0.36 kernel, and potato is a 2.2.x kernel... which means the lsof included with the distro is unusable. Is this a distro bug or am I just missing something?

Re: making linux look bad

1999-05-15 Thread David B.Teague
On Sat, 15 May 1999, tf wrote: > > Hey everybody > > I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2 > > years and have never had it running well enough to use. So. > > can someone give me a strategy to follow? I'm obviously > > going about this the wrong way. I think it wo

making linux look bad

1999-05-15 Thread tf
Hey everybody I make linux look bad. I've been messing with it for almost 2 years and have never had it running well enough to use. So. can someone give me a strategy to follow? I'm obviously going about this the wrong way. I think it would help if I got ppp working-both pon and wvdail d

Glibc 2.1 Applixware problem solved

1999-05-15 Thread Phillip Deackes
Those of you who use Applixware and have had problems when you have glibc 2.1 on your system might like to know that the fix is as follows: Add this line to your ~/axhome/ax_prof (mine is ax_prof4) file: axGFSName:tcp/host:7001 Replace 'host' with your machine's hostname. The fix makes the prev

Re: 2 network cards revisited

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
use : dmesg and look for info about eth0, eth1 or the name of your card

Re: Mouse installation

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
use : XF86Setup

Re: automatic load of modules ?

1999-05-15 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
use modconf too if your card's driver is in module.

Re: PPP woes

1999-05-15 Thread David B.Teague
On Fri, 14 May 1999, William R Pentney wrote: > A couple of questions. > > 1) I have not yet recompiled my Debian kernel. (no lectures, > please ...) Is PPP built into the default kernel? > > 2) I am having problems getting chat to speak to my modem. It > simply isn't recognizing it. Is there

Re: What happened to the list?

1999-05-15 Thread David B.Teague
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Matthew Wade Roberts wrote: > > I was getting list mail for about a week and then it abruptly > stopped. Did something happen? Please respond to me since > a response to the list will obviously not get through! Matt Did something happen to make your system reject mail for

Re: missing files: 'no' and library panel

1999-05-15 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
>-Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > when trying to compile a few programs writen for gtk (to run under > gnome) i got mesages that /bin/sh: couldn't find no ... Hm. That sounds like a mistake in the configuration scripts. It seems like it couldn't find a program but then tries to run it (with t

Re: unzip

1999-05-15 Thread David B.Teague
On Sat, 15 May 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: > Is there a version of unzip which supports encryption? Shao You should find zip-crypt and unzip-crypt in non-US. On my system, I find: $/var/local/debian/debian-non-US/dists/slink/non-US/binary-i386[1]$ls*zip* bzip_0.21-3.1.debunzip-crypt_5.3

Hardware working with Linux

1999-05-15 Thread Martin Schulze
Good morning fans, I have noticed that several HOWTO's are way out-dated. For example the Hardware-HOWTO is from July 1998. Same goes for the Ethernet-HOWTO etc. Thus they doesn't cover hardware which is supported by Linux 2.2.x and newer. However, there is a new service which has been opened

Re: Display issues

1999-05-15 Thread deblists
On 13 May, Pollywog wrote: > > On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: >> So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from >> different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession. >> To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession. > > I dislike having xdm start when

FW: Kernel 2.2.7 and Sound

1999-05-15 Thread Ralf Comtesse
Hello, I have just upgraded to Kernel 2.2.7 and compiled sound support as a module. When I try to play a sound file, I get sth like splay: Failed to open sound device. /dev/dsp[1] and /dev/audio[1] exsist. The logfile shows: May 15 11:18:34 socrates modprobe: can't locate module sound-slot-0

Re: Debian 2.0 Install

1999-05-15 Thread Kirk Noonan
You probably want to use the multiple cd option. Your CD-Rom is most likely /dev/cdrom or /dev/hdb for ATAPI or /dev/scd0 for SCSI. I would recommend the KDE desktop manager, as you will probably find it very familiar and there is alot of good documentation built in to it. I'm not sure if it automa

Re: Kernel 2.2.1

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Kernel 2.2.1 Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 11:07:11PM +0200 In reply to:R.Feenstra Quoting R.Feenstra([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello again :) > > Is kernel 2.2.1 still regarded as Slink ? Hope not! Kernel 2.2.1 had problems and AFAIR wasn't included with slink. The kernel

Re: clock

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: clock Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 10:43:23PM +0100 In reply to:Patrick Kirk Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > What is the man page for info on setting the clock to salmon.maths.tcd.ie > which is a time server near a lovely pub in Dublin? > > Patrick > man

Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: update-menus, does it work? UPDATE 2 Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 03:53:16PM -0800 In reply to:Adam Shand Quoting Adam Shand([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > It may not be pretty or proper but it seems to work. Putting this is > > > either > > > ~/.menu/ or /etc/menu and

Re: automatic load of modules ?

1999-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: automatic load of modules ? Date: Fri, May 14, 1999 at 11:05:39PM +0200 In reply to:R.Feenstra Quoting R.Feenstra([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > hello > > I finally got my SB AWE32 pnp soundcard running on my slink system > loading the module with modprobe. > Is there a way to l

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1999-05-15 Thread Charles Demers
Hi, maybe you can help me. I am a new linux user, and bought debian 2.1. But each time i try to install it, my computer locks up, and i have to cold boot to restart. Each and every time, it locks up after sdb: cdrom atapi (or somethimg like that). Hopefully, you can tell me ow to fix this p

Re: Shell for gunzip so I don't have to remember?

1999-05-15 Thread Krzysztof Ogrodnik
Dnia Fri, 14 May 1999 14:18:32 -0700, napisałeś: >On Wed, May 12, 1999 at 06:52:39PM -0500, André Bell wrote: >> ...now if I can only figure out which of the hundreds of files is the >> executable... > >Use ls -l and look for the executable bit (x) or use ls --color and look for >the green ones. >

Re: Error in kernel compile

1999-05-15 Thread wcurry
I had identical problems compiling the same kernel on my potato system. I was only successful after I reinstalled gcc2.7.2.3 and made sure /etc/alternatives pointed cc at it (dont forget to go into the top level Makefile to change the compiler to cc). Lance Hoffmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: ESS1868

1999-05-15 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 15 May 1999, add|ct|on wrote: > i have the same sound card and i never could make my sound work properly > until i upgraded to a 2.2.x kernel. they have great support for ESS cards. Same sound card, works fine for me since 2.0.30. I use isapnp after using windows, (only for those short g

apt saves the day :)

1999-05-15 Thread Pollywog
I started downloading potato this morning, with apt. A while ago, when I had 1 hour or so of downloading left, KDE locks up, but the download continues for a while. I had to reboot the machine from my laptop and started the entire process again and I get a very pleasant surprise. Apt-get does not

Re: ESS1868

1999-05-15 Thread add|ct|on
i have the same sound card and i never could make my sound work properly until i upgraded to a 2.2.x kernel. they have great support for ESS cards. add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net help, I got sucked into /de

ESS1868

1999-05-15 Thread budi w
i have ESS 1868 soundcard but slink can't detect it . i've tried to recompile my kernel sound modules installed and it still didn' work then i use oss but it's not free :( any one can help me pl? regards budi wibowo [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dpkg problem

1999-05-15 Thread Brian Schramm
I have a package that has the following code in dselect: RI-- Package name et 80b2-8 I cannot install or remove this package. It is stoping me from using apt-get to update some files for me. I have tried everything that I can think of to install or remove this package. I have used dpkg, dsel

Re: missing files: 'no' and library panel

1999-05-15 Thread zephyr1
i wish i knew. i'm having the same problem and i can't find out what it is, either. if you find out please let me know!

Re: Upgrading to Potato over dial-up connection

1999-05-15 Thread zephyr1
i love potato :)

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