NDN: Re: laptop netconfig

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NDN: Re: postgresql installation trouble ...

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NDN: Re: linuxconf

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NDN: Re: mail clients

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Re: [solved] g2player (fwd)

1999-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
scratch wrote: > Hi, > > I've solved the lib bugs by installing the stdlibc++-2.8 package. (I only > had the stdlibc++-2.9 package installed). > > Works fine now. If only I knew how to install it properly on my Debian > system. The way I did it now, I used Alien to convert the .rpm from > real.co

RE: linuxconf

1999-05-24 Thread Person, Roderick
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/project/experimental I believe the differences is in the stablity and that the are either less stable. Although, I never had a problem with the linuxconf packages ... except one package linuxconf-boot which even warns you on installation that it can hose your system, so

Re: help: clock resets on reboot

1999-05-24 Thread John Foster
Rob Mahurin wrote: > > My clock resets when I reboot, pretty much at random. Doesn't matter how long > it's been off; when I check in the CMOS before it boots, it's still right. > But > sometime between when lilo loads and I get a login prompt, it sets, pretty > much > at random. date and hwc

Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:07:19PM -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would > like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something > like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded

NDN: Re: Modem GM56PCI-L

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NDN: Re: bios q

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Unable to compile kernel 2.2.5 w/sound module

1999-05-24 Thread jean-Yves BARBIER
Hi all, I try to compile a 2.2.5 kernel (was up to 2.2.7 :-(( ) to make my SG live! work under Linux with the object module from (mis)creative. Each time I do 'make-kpkg kernel_image' (or make clean, dep, bzImage) I have this error message: # drivers/char/char.a(msp3400.o): In function `msp3400c_

RE: how to make modem silent?

1999-05-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-May-99 Karen Hu wrote: > Is there a way will make "pon" dial my modem silently? > I'm still using Hamm (version 2.0). In my connect script, I added M0 to my AT string to make the modem quiet: AT&F2&C1&D2&K3M0 (last character is a zero) This is in my /etc/diald/connect script, but you

XF86Setup incorrectly updates /etc/X11/XF86Config

1999-05-24 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all! I have this weird behavior of XF86Setup. I try to change the mouse settings to "4 buttons" and "MouseManPlusPS/2" instead of "3 buttons" and "PS/2". I go into the graphical mode, and change all the necessary settings. Then I click Done, and so on, and it exits normally saying that /etc/X1

RE: how to make modem silent?

1999-05-24 Thread Patrick Kirk
Usually ATM0 ie M Zero will bo it. The Linux default is ATZ which turns sound back on with a lot of modems bu doing a soft reset. Hope this helps. Patrick > -Original Message- > From: Karen Hu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, 24 May 1999 19:07 > To: debian-user@lists.debian.or

Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Since the ethernet driver will detect carrier on the ethernet if you could detect the error correctly you'd be able to know if the ethernet was hooked up. Trying to send a packet is easy. Trapping the error correctly may be the hard part. If the kernel would log such a message then you could jus

Re: how to make modem silent?

1999-05-24 Thread shaleh
> > Is there a way will make "pon" dial my modem silently? > I'm still using Hamm (version 2.0). > > Thanks, > > (Note: I'm not on debian-user@, so plz include this address in your > msg). > Consult your modem docs. Most modems can be passed an initialization string value which turns of the s

Re: Debian applications - where to get them???

1999-05-24 Thread Robert Rati
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: > I am running into problems getting applications for Debian. > > 1.I wanted to get the Communicator 4.5 and so I checked the Debian > archives. There is a listing for Communicator 4.5 but when I add up the file > sizes, they don't match nowhere c

Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Justin Hagemeier
"Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would > like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something > like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in > getting an address and starting d

Kernel 2.2.x: PPP routing problem - solved!

1999-05-24 Thread Kris
To those who were (or weren't) having the same problem as me (PPP freezes in kernel 2.2), I found the answer after talking with Clifford Kite on comp.os.linux.networking (he didn't suggest it, though, he just prompted me to get on with the diagnosing): The modem UART type wasn't set right. On

NDN: Re: help /var is filling up!!!

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NDN: Re: linuxconf

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RE: Debian applications - where to get them???

1999-05-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-May-99 Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: > I am running into problems getting applications for Debian. > > 1.I wanted to get the Communicator 4.5 and so I checked the Debian > archives. There is a listing for Communicator 4.5 but when I add up the file > sizes, they don't match nowhere close to

Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MW" == Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MW> so this has changed from hamm then which used to unpack it all for MW> you and make the link from /usr/src/linux to /usr/src/ version> ? Yes. Ciao, Martin

Re: pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "RvdM" == Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: RvdM> It's strange indeed; it has come up before, and because the RvdM> default Debian 2.1 install comes with 2.0.36, which doesn't RvdM> support the /proc/bus/pci interface of the 2.2 kernels (the RvdM> interface that pciutils uses) it

Re: daylight savings time aint savin' ME time

1999-05-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: daylight savings time aint savin' ME time Date: Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:40:15PM -0400 In reply to:Michael Stenner Quoting Michael Stenner([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Ever since Daylight savings time struck, my clock has been incorrect. > > I've tried setting it with hwclock -

Re: fetchmail problems

1999-05-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: fetchmail problems Date: Thu, May 20, 1999 at 11:17:01AM -0500 In reply to:Matt Garman Quoting Matt Garman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 09:10:03AM -0500, Marc Mongeon wrote: > > Make sure you have a line like this in your /etc/exim.conf: > > > > loc

Re: Modem GM56PCI-L

1999-05-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Modem GM56PCI-L Date: Sat, May 22, 1999 at 03:57:56PM -0300 In reply to:Luiz Felipe Quoting Luiz Felipe([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello, now I use Debian 2.0 and a modem GM56PCI-L of Genius. My minicom > (ttyS1) don't recive responce, in Windows my modem is COM3 it's put in

how to spy out serial line communication?

1999-05-24 Thread Ingo Hohmann
Hi, I need to know the commands a windows based program sends to the modem. How is it possible to read what it's sending and receiving? (I'll start it under wine or dosemu/win311). thanks, Ingo

Re: Sound blaster 16 pnp

1999-05-24 Thread Brad
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Ali Onur UYAR wrote: > What this means is that, as the 16-bit dma channel you have to pass another > 8-bit dma channel that is instead of passing irq 5,6,7 etc. you have to pass > irq > 0,1,2,3 > At some point an error message is displayed, something similar to > "Bad dma cha

Re: Installing from source

1999-05-24 Thread Carl Mummert
There is a package named 'alien' that can take care of some of this, depending on exactly what you are needing to install. What you do is to layout the files in some remote directory, like you would want them installed: /somewhere--etc/file1 | --usr/bin/\file2

enlightenment, rpm

1999-05-24 Thread Anonymous Coward
ok i wanted the latest version of enlightenment on my debian 2.1 so i took the rpm off of the RH6 cd and copied it to /. then i did alien -d theenlightenmnetrpm.rpm on the rpm and it generated it. i also did it on the enlightenment-conf rpm. then i used dpkg -i on the .deb files and everything w

NDN: Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

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Re: mounting nfs when server down

1999-05-24 Thread Joey Hess
Pere Camps wrote: > b. Imagine bot the client and the server fall (power out, for > example). The client boots up faster than the server and when it tries to > mount the partition it can't. Yes, and then it hangs until the server comes up. -- see shy jo

Re: We need centralized accounts -- Any docs for ldap passwords?

1999-05-24 Thread Rob Browning
Sergey V Kovalyov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > When you install libnss-ldap, there is a short howto in > /usr/doc/libnss-ldap > I also suggest downloading conversion tools from www.padl.com, which will > help populate the LDAP database OK. I'm back working on this, and I've gotten openldap etc.

List archives? was: Re: fetchmail problems

1999-05-24 Thread Lazarus Long
On Thursday, May 20, 1999 at 11:17:01 -0500, Matt Garman wrote: > Subject: Re: fetchmail problems > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: 685403a47c42011da0baee50b375ebfe > > Also, I read through the fetchmail FAQ, and searched the debian-user > list archives. How did you search the arc

Re: linuxconf

1999-05-24 Thread Johannes Beigel
"Person, Roderick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > There is a linuxconf in the debian experimental archives. Where can I get experimental packages? Are they even more unstable than packages from unstable/potato? Jojo. -- Johannes Beigel | "Gravity. http://come.to/jojob | It's not

DHCP and debian

1999-05-24 Thread Mark Wright
I'm adding a debian workstation to our Windows network, and I'd like to use our DHCP server to assign it's ip-address, DNS servers, netmask, etc. Is this possible? --- Mark Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mail clients

1999-05-24 Thread Rob Browning
Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > See /usr/doc/exim/filter.txt.gz > It answered all of my questions. See also "info exim-filter". -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP=E80E0D04F521A094 532B97F5D64E3930

Re: postgresql installation trouble ...

1999-05-24 Thread Jon Marler
I figured it out ... The permissions on /dev/null by default are set to 0600 root root. I set them to 0666 root root. Problem solved. Jon [EMAIL PROTECTED]

pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)

1999-05-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>That explains something I experienced before. Thanks >for the tip. >BTW, this pciutils package is not in the basic Debian >2.1 set up, yet >with >every boot up the kernel invokes lspci, which is >doesn't find of >course. Is >this an oversight from the team who compiled the >installation list, or

Re: laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I don't know if anyone's come up with a slick way to do this. I too would like to have such a thing at my disposal. You might be able to do something like this by just running dhcp and then checking to see if dhcp succeeded in getting an address and starting diald if it didn't. Good luck, Just

kde locale

1999-05-24 Thread Serge Gavrilov
Hello! Today I install kde 1.1.1 (unofficial debian packages) on my Slink system. But kde localization does not work. Does anybody have this problem? And how I can overcome this problem? Thank you! -- Serge

Re: Modem GM56PCI-L

1999-05-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I'm not sure if Linux supports any PCI modems yet. Check out the latest Hardware howto. Luiz Felipe wrote: > Hello, now I use Debian 2.0 and a modem GM56PCI-L of Genius. My minicom > (ttyS1) don't recive responce, in Windows my modem is COM3 it's put in > PCI2 on my MotherBord, and how I can use

[solved] g2player (fwd)

1999-05-24 Thread scratch
Hi, I've solved the lib bugs by installing the stdlibc++-2.8 package. (I only had the stdlibc++-2.9 package installed). Works fine now. If only I knew how to install it properly on my Debian system. The way I did it now, I used Alien to convert the .rpm from real.com to a .deb. Of course this is

Re: bios q

1999-05-24 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Koyote wrote: > I'm rebuilding a 486/33 to be our internet server (when I get that > far...) > > The cmos setup isn't handling the hdd (1 gig), nor the cdrom- I've > heard that Linux bypasses the system setup, or it can use devices in > spite of it. How much of this is true? This is indeed all t

(OT?) Enlightenment memory hogging

1999-05-24 Thread William R Pentney
Is there any way that I can reduce the amount of memory used by Enlightenment? Currently,with GNOME on top of it, it occupies about 95% of my memory wny programs loaded up. Any tips on making it use memory more efficiently would be appreciated. - Bill

Postgres SQL - potato installation problem

1999-05-24 Thread Jon Marler
I am having a problem installing postgresql into a potato i386 system. I did not have a previous version of postgres installed. Here is the errors I'm getting ... I apologize for the length. Vacuuming template1 /usr/lib/postgresql/bin/initdb: /dev/null: Permission denied /usr/lib/postgresql/bin

how to make modem silent?

1999-05-24 Thread Karen Hu
Is there a way will make "pon" dial my modem silently? I'm still using Hamm (version 2.0). Thanks, (Note: I'm not on debian-user@, so plz include this address in your msg). -Ping

Installing Base System from Floppies

1999-05-24 Thread Xela Wren
I am trying to install the latest stable Debian on a Dell 486DX and am running into trouble installing teh base system. Having tried it with FOUR different sets of install floppies (no CD, no network connection, no other machine nearby) I always get the same message when it finishes copying the

Debian applications - where to get them???

1999-05-24 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
I am running into problems getting applications for Debian. 1. I wanted to get the Communicator 4.5 and so I checked the Debian archives. There is a listing for Communicator 4.5 but when I add up the file sizes, they don't match nowhere close to the Netscape Binary posting (of around 12MB). A

Problems: setserial, mgetty

1999-05-24 Thread Mike Patterson
Howdy! First: I'm trying to get my Palmtop (HP680- Jornada) to dial into my system. My system is a Debian 2.1 machine with an internal Zoom modem jumpered for com3. Although the system has com1/com2 configured, there are no devices on them. There are two problems. First, I seem to have probl

Re: linuxconf

1999-05-24 Thread Shao Zhang
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 08:23:58AM -0500, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > hi, > > I'd like to know if there is a tools in debian distribution similar the > linuxconf in > redhat? > > Thanks! Yep!. Debian has linuxconf as well. Since Redhat and Debian do things differently, the Debi

X server and pseudo-color

1999-05-24 Thread Mark Tucker
I've got some slink systems running at 1024x768 at 24bpp. Several of the apps that need to run on these systems require exactly 8bit color and refuse to run if the display is set to anything other than 8bpp. I still need the high color (16 or 24 bpp) for other work which must be done concurrentl

Re: help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-24 Thread Carl Johnson
Johann Spies at Johann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I am not an expert on this, so I had to search a little to find this, so if anybody finds any problems with this, please correct me. The lastlog file appears to be an array of structures of binary data, with an entry for each UID (except 'nobody'

running programs from other computers on local net (window manager)

1999-05-24 Thread Micha Feigin
How do i start a window manager from another computer on the local net (university) when I start up a xwindows session? Alternatly, can i check on what local computer i am running in order to chose the local available window manager, and if so, how do i encorperate this into xsession?

Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Waller
From: Martin Bialasinski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> "MW" == Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MW> I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my MW> slink CD) the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource MW> .tgz under /usr/src Yes, this is intended. You unpac

International characters

1999-05-24 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Thanks for all help, regarding "international characters for the swedish language". It seems to be more than one solution to the problem. The first one is: export LC_CTYPE=sv_SE.iso-8859-1 insert this line in /etc/profile. And, all users on the system will been able to use the swedish characters

Re: Installing from source

1999-05-24 Thread Brad
On Mon, 24 May 1999, Otgonbayar Uuye wrote: > 1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can > untar and compile them, > but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. > > For instance I have downloaded qt-1.44.tar.gz, compiled and installed it. > Then qt in

help: clock resets on reboot

1999-05-24 Thread Rob Mahurin
My clock resets when I reboot, pretty much at random. Doesn't matter how long it's been off; when I check in the CMOS before it boots, it's still right. But sometime between when lilo loads and I get a login prompt, it sets, pretty much at random. date and hwclock agree, but they're wrong. Some

RE: linuxconf

1999-05-24 Thread Person, Roderick
There is a linuxconf in the debian experimental archives. It requires libc6 from potatoe and some other stuff from there, it works and is better that the linuxconf that I used (redhat 5.1 version). The X version of the linuxconf is really cool. But, the libc6 from potatoe did like some stuff on my

Re: /bin/bash -> /bin/sh

1999-05-24 Thread Werner Reisberger
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 11:30:37AM -0500, Brad wrote: > Just out of curiousity, which important startup script has the /bin/bash? > So i can watch out for it if i ever have a broken bash I had bash in /etc/init.d/rcS (hamm). -Werner

Key board and mouse lockup

1999-05-24 Thread Tommy Malloy
Every once in a blue moon, when I am in X my keyboard and mouse lockup. I am forced to turn the computer off. This is bad. Is there a log file that I could look at that might help me to figure out what the problem is? Also is there a particular grep syntax that I should us on the log file. Tha

Re: [Help] Memory

1999-05-24 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nguyen Hai Ha) writes: | Hi folks, | | I've just installed the debian 2.0.34 on my machine. | Everything seems to work well excepts the memory. | The real memory consists of 2 DIMM 128M+32M. But it | seems to me that the kernel doesn't think so. | | % cat /proc/meminfo | |

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-05-24 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:37 -0500, Judith Elaine Bush wrote: > > *- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about "netscape menubar > black&white" > Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > > > Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode. Netscape has a known problem > > with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp.

Re: pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)

1999-05-24 Thread Remco van de Meent
Hans van den Boogert wrote: > BTW, this pciutils package is not in the basic Debian 2.1 set up, yet with > every boot up the kernel invokes lspci, which is doesn't find of course. > Is this an oversight from the team who compiled the installation list, or > is there a reason for omitting? Seems a b

Sound Card

1999-05-24 Thread Adilson dos Santos Dantas
Hi! I still have problems in configuring my sound card in linux. I search at mail archives, FAQs HOWTOs,documentations, downloading the OSSfree evaluation software and I didn's have sucess.My sound card is an Aztech Sound Galaxy that uses 2316/R Chipset. Is this card supported by kernel 2.2.9?

Re: Unsupported protocols??

1999-05-24 Thread David Wright
Quoting Jens B. Jorgensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Some kinda error I'd guess. I took a look at the assigned numbers RFC and the > only one > of those defined is 0x7f and its: > > 007freserved (compression inefficient)[RFC1662] > > I'm thinking there must've been some sort of corru

Gnome themes

1999-05-24 Thread Jason Murray
I'm having a little trouble attempting to install themes for gnome (gtk). I've downloaded a few from gtk.themes.org. When I go to install them from the control center it doesn't seem to work. Here's what I do. In the "Theme Selector" I hit the "Install new theme..." button. Then I navigate my way

Re: 2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "MW" == Martin Waller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MW> I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my MW> slink CD) the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource MW> .tgz under /usr/src Yes, this is intended. You unpack it when you need it (with tar xfvz ) and it is

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-05-24 Thread John Foster
Judith Elaine Bush wrote: > > *- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about "netscape menubar > black&white" > Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > > > Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode. Netscape has a known problem > > with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp. > > Other than the icons being in b&w

linuxconf

1999-05-24 Thread Timothy C. Phan
hi, I'd like to know if there is a tools in debian distribution similar the linuxconf in redhat? Thanks! -- tcp

Re: EMERGENCY 'umount /'

1999-05-24 Thread David B.Teague
On Mon, 24 May 1999, per_adua32 wrote: [snip] > After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped > into bash. I then tried to unmount the root filesystem > so that I could mount it again as read/write. However, > when I entered the command > umount / > I got some message like can't open mta

Re: mail clients

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "SP" == Stephen Pitts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: SP> Windows is designed for the causal user. That's great, SP> initially. There is no learning curve, Hahahahahahah. Sorry. I work parttime on phone support to pay for my studies. I can assure you, that a current Linux is no more complicated

Re: Installing from source

1999-05-24 Thread Mavroyanopoulos Nikos
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 07:30:02PM +0900, Otgonbayar Uuye wrote: > Hello, > > I have a couple of questions. > > 1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can > untar and compile them, > but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. There is an instmon packa

Re: MPEG-3

1999-05-24 Thread Rob
> works! (Bob's interview is worth the work to hear) X11amp is a playback > only though? What software is available for recording mp3's? Now I'd Check the stuff on freshmeat. Personally, I use mpg123 for playback and bladeenc for encoding. The latter isn't free, but the (few) free projects that

MPEG-3

1999-05-24 Thread Kenneth Scharf
I downloaded an mp3 file of an interview with Bob Young (RH CEO) on friday from LinuxToday.com. Now I needed a way to hear it! So I finally rebuilt my kernel (and moved up to 2.0.36) with support for my sound card (and also added scsi emulation to support my new cd rom burner). The only mp3 soft

Re: mail clients

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "JB" == Jim B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Dispite some vocal mails from other users, I have a simple solution for you. JB> Someone sends to joe and the mail is filtered into his JB> mailbox... meanwhile, tom's mail is filtered into his mailbox. No problem. postilion does this without any pro

pciutils package (was: Sound blaster 16 pnp)

1999-05-24 Thread Hans van den Boogert
>Another tip that might be helpful; if you are using slink, install pciutils >package, which provides >lspci utility which can be invoked by pnpdump when called with the argument '-c >'. >Once lspci is installed pnpdump worked fine for me, I did not have to make any >further >modifications in /etc/

Translation of Debian User Manual

1999-05-24 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, I'm interested in translate the Debian User Manual to portuguese. I found one time it and downloaded. I have only a .html copy. How to translate it? Is there a sgml copy? Where to get it? Who contact to coordinate translations? Have a nice day,

debian-user@lists.debian.org

1999-05-24 Thread Judith Elaine Bush
*- On 23 May, Fethi A. Okyar wrote about "netscape menubar black&white" Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > Don't run your X server in 24bpp mode. Netscape has a known problem > with 24bpp, use 16bpp or 32bpp. Other than the icons being in b&w (and i like the reduced visual clutter) is

Installing from source

1999-05-24 Thread Otgonbayar Uuye
Hello, I have a couple of questions. 1. How am I supposed to install programs from tarball source code? I can untar and compile them, but then the debian package system doesn't recognize it. For instance I have downloaded qt-1.44.tar.gz, compiled and installed it. Then qt installs itself in /

Re: Sound blaster 16 pnp

1999-05-24 Thread Ali Onur UYAR
Roddie, I've just configured my SoundBlaster Vibra 16pnp card on Friday. I started off sending a posting to this newsgroup, compiled a 2.2 kernel, read plenty of docs and manuals and if you have the some card that is Vibra 16, than I guess you may be experiencing the same problems I have experience

Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Waller
I just use Xnest -query :1 & and login via the xdm prompt as root. voila - a root session in a window under a normal users session. No faffing about with authorities and crap. > > How do i start graphical programs under X as root while I'm logged in as a > > normal user? >

Re: strange msg in bootup

1999-05-24 Thread Ali Onur UYAR
On Sat, 22 May, Graham Aston wrote: On Friday 21 May, Dan Willard wrote: > The route command now requires a netmask. Just add one in to both of the > route commands and it should go away. if you read the 2.2 docs in /usr/src/linux/Changes (or whatever it's called) then you s

2.0.36 source .deb - installs REDHAT dir - piss take?

1999-05-24 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I don't know what's going on, but when I try to install (from my slink CD) the 2.0.36 kernel package .deb, I get a 2.0.36 aource .tgz under /usr/src (with a rehat package icon under tkdesk...!) and a directory under /usr/src of REDHAT, with al it's associated sub dirs! Is this a practic

Re: mounting nfs when server down

1999-05-24 Thread Pere Camps
Joey, > hard The program accessing a file on a NFS mounted file system will hang >when the server crashes. The pro­ cess cannot be interrupted or >killed unless you also specify intr. When the NFS server is back >online the program will continue undisturbed from where it

Re: EMERGENCY 'umount /'

1999-05-24 Thread Conrado Badenas
per_adua32 wrote: > > After booting with linux-init=/bin/sh I was dropped > into bash. I then tried to unmount the root filesystem > so that I could mount it again as read/write. However, > when I entered the command > > umount / > > I got some message like can't open mtab: file doesn't > exist

Re: Making a Debian CD?

1999-05-24 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Mon, May 24, 1999 at 02:34:41AM -0400, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if any one can tell me if it's possible to make one's own > Debian CD. MkLinux has a 648MB CD image file for people to download and > make CD of. I don't know if this is the case for Debian. Thanks! Take

writing Debian CD images

1999-05-24 Thread scratch
(Sorry I lost the original message to reply to, hope the person who asked this question will read this) For your Debian CD images to write yourself, take a look at: http://cdimages.debian.org You can find the official CD images for Debian there. Beware that it's a huge download though, hope you

Re: help /var is filling up!!!

1999-05-24 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I have two large files in my /var/log: -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18523020 May 24 07:14 lastlog <- -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm871296 May 24 07:14 wtmp -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 7499904 May 5 14:07 wtmp.0 <- -rw-r--r-- 1 root adm 49369 Oct 1

laptop netconfig

1999-05-24 Thread Justin Hagemeier
I have a laptop with three possible network configurations that I would like to use. 1. Ethernet 10 Mbps DHCP-sv 2. PPP daild 3. None at all is there any suggestions on tools for configuration techniques for this kind of setup. It looks as if I could do it if one of the in

質問

1999-05-24 Thread あなたの名前
Debianをインストールするには、ファイルの大きさは、どれくらいです か? 初心者なので、分かりやすくインストール方法を教えて下さい。 インターネットのホームページで分かりやすい所も教えて下さい。

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-24 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 04:52:24PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote > > Sounds like more trouble that it is work. Slink packages (usually) don't > > change, > > because they are the stable distribution. Right now, packages in unstable > > are > > changing. I use apt-get in the apt package to do wha

Re: Staroffice 5.1 under slink

1999-05-24 Thread John Leget
Hi, I use "wget" for all downloads, i cut and paste urls into a text file as i come across them which in turn is set up to be read by wget when it starts. I then start wget up in "ip-up.d" no problem, apart from being impatient sometimes :) wget is included with debian to >;0) cheers Shao Zha

Making a Debian CD?

1999-05-24 Thread Fu-Dong Chiou
Hi, I was wondering if any one can tell me if it's possible to make one's own Debian CD. MkLinux has a 648MB CD image file for people to download and make CD of. I don't know if this is the case for Debian. Thanks! Best wishes, Chip

Re: sourcing the new install

1999-05-24 Thread John Foster
> One thing I was hoping to avoid...I haven't seen slink/apt yet, but I am aware > that it will install from multiple CD's...under the previous release, I had > copied the binaries of Contrib/Non-Free/Non-US to my hard drive, left the i386 > CD in the tray, and told dselect that I was installing fr

Re: tulip 100mps card; need advice

1999-05-24 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, tulip.c:v0.89H 5/23/98 [EMAIL PROTECTED] eth0: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0x6100, 00 c0 f0 17 16 0d, IRQ 11. eth0: EEPROM default media type Autosense. eth0: Index #0 - Media MII (#11) described by a 21140 MII PHY (1) block. eth0: MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 3000 status 782

RE: kde headers

1999-05-24 Thread Pollywog
On 24-May-99 Alan wrote: > Hello people, > I was wondering if anyone can help me with me with KDE headers. Im trying > to > install a few programs that keep comming up with a prefix error when I run > 'configure', but i can't seem to find out where they are supose to be or get > any info on the

Sound Card Config/Kernel Compile Problems

1999-05-24 Thread Chris Hoover
I'm having some problems with my yamaha pci sound card that I just installed. After reading the kernel documentation, I compiled in every thing it said to for the olp3-sa stuff. However, on the reboot of my system, it looks like some of the sound card parameters are wrong, and I'm not sure wha

kde headers

1999-05-24 Thread Alan
Hello people, I was wondering if anyone can help me with me with KDE headers. Im trying to install a few programs that keep comming up with a prefix error when I run 'configure', but i can't seem to find out where they are supose to be or get any info on the KDE site. Im using debian 2.1 with k

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