Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-26 Thread Pollywog
On 24-May-99 Frankie wrote: >> >> That is why I am a proponent of the debian-newbie list :) >> Newbies helping newbies without seeming to be asking too many questions. > > No, thats a well bad idea - there are enough dodgy answers to questions > on this list, without people who know NOTHING abo

Re: gnome-session + enlightenmet

1999-05-26 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 1999-05-21 20:39, Oz Dror wrote: > what is the relationship between gnome-session and enlightenment Here's my $HOME/.xinitrc which outlines the starting sequence: xrdb -load $HOME/.Xdefaults ssh-agent fvwm & exec /usr/bin/gnome-session Just replace "fvwm" with

Re: are the 2.2.x kernels for SMP systems only?

1999-05-26 Thread Frankie
Pollywog wrote: > > On 20-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: > >>> No. They have support for SMP systems. Read the documentation. > >>> > >>> I think you win the award for the most frequent poster! > >> > >> Sorry, I will refrain from asking so many questions. I did read the > > > > You don't really nee

Re: Boot probblem with xdm

1999-05-26 Thread Pollywog
On 26-May-99 Brad wrote: > > There's a better way in Debian. > # update-rc.d -f xdm remove Yes, that is what I did with both kdm and xdm. I like getting a plain console when I boot. -- Andrew

Re: Boot probblem with xdm

1999-05-26 Thread Brad
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Bruce Sass wrote: > You can also use CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE to shut down X Not with xdm, it just restarts. > When you are back at a text console: > "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" will stop xdm As root only. Personally, i've had trouble with this, it always claims xdm isn't running. k

Re: Ugly fonts in X

1999-05-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Ah! What you need is the XFree86 Font Deuglification HOWTO: http://www.frii.com/~meldroc/Font-Deuglification.html Try it, you'll like it. I tried it, I liked it. Kent West wrote: > I've only been using Linux for less than a year, and have only in the past > 6 months or so gotten X and Netscape w

jaz disk

1999-05-26 Thread Aaron Solochek
I have a p133 with limited harddrive space. 100~200 meg, I think its like a 140 actually. Anyways I have an old internal jaz disk, and I want to install the os on that. The scsi card I have (adaptec 1505) doesn't have bios so booting off of it is not an option. What I was hoping to do is boot o

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Lazarus Long
On Wednesday, May 26, 1999 at 15:12:52 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: 4fd6d8ff3805df00b5ee9a38be13cbf6 > > > Ya know, we really oughtta quit advertising the idea that Linux runs well > > > on 486's with low memory and drive resources > Guess I should

Re: Ugly fonts in X

1999-05-26 Thread Lawrence Walton
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 04:57:58PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I've only been using Linux for less than a year, and have only in the past > 6 months or so gotten X and Netscape working fairly well, and only in the > past few weeks gotten WordPerfect working fairly well, and etc. > > One of the big

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:45:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > > > > >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does > > > > Huh??? > > > > Netscape 4.51 is

Ugly fonts in X

1999-05-26 Thread Kent West
I've only been using Linux for less than a year, and have only in the past 6 months or so gotten X and Netscape working fairly well, and only in the past few weeks gotten WordPerfect working fairly well, and etc. One of the big things I've noticed coming from a Windows world is that the fonts ten

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread John C. Ellingboe
I notice that dselect has offix-clipboard and there used to be a xclipboard, but dselect doesent find it in stablr now. I haven't used either one so I can't comment on how well they work. John C. Ellingboe www.guntersville.netbegin: vcard fn: John C. Ellingboe - KE4BPW n

mpeg movies with sound?

1999-05-26 Thread Robert Ramiega
Hi! Can someone point me to package that could play mpeg movies with sound? (xanim says it doesn't know this format and mpeg_play plays it without sound) TIA -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED]IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't underestimate | http://plukwa.pdi.net/| the

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread Joey Hess
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > That's a good idea. However, rather than /dev/X all you need is an X program > which > would read from standard input and put whatever it gets there onto the > clipboard. Now > that you mention this I'm surprised someone hasn't done it. I'm now filing a bug report agai

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread Joey Hess
Lazarus Long wrote: > Wouldn't that require he be *in* X11 with his command line app at > the time? Um, why would he need to be? So long as DISPLAY is set properly, the app won't care where he is. -- see shy jo

Re: debian version conventions

1999-05-26 Thread shaleh
> > This remains to be a mystery for me, I don't know hw I ended up > confusing all the names, slink potato, hamm, beef, etc.. Now I > go down to the source (i.e. ftp.debian.org) and try to figure out > which kernel version is used in which name by looking at base > packages. > > Can somebody c

Re: fstab, nfs

1999-05-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Johan Pettersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello! > >I have put this string in my fstab: localhost:/win/dir /ftp/site/dir >nfs >But it does not work! (I can mount when type mount -t nfs >localhost:/win/dir >/ftp/site/dir) NFS mounting through fstab is done ver

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread scratch
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Alec Smith wrote: > I have a 486DX2/66 with 8MB which runs perfectly well. Its doing file and > print sharing, e-mail, and IP gatewaying. The same machine running Windows > 95 basically sucked. For that matter, I even compile stuff on it > sometimes. I have a similar system r

Re: debian version conventions

1999-05-26 Thread Jean-Yves Barbier
"Fethi A. Okyar" wrote: > > Hello all, > > want to bring the insane naming convention into argument here > for one second. > > This remains to be a mystery for me, I don't know hw I ended up > confusing all the names, slink potato, hamm, beef, etc.. Now I > go down to the source (i.e. ftp.debian

debian version conventions

1999-05-26 Thread Fethi A. Okyar
Hello all, want to bring the insane naming convention into argument here for one second. This remains to be a mystery for me, I don't know hw I ended up confusing all the names, slink potato, hamm, beef, etc.. Now I go down to the source (i.e. ftp.debian.org) and try to figure out which kernel

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:45:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > > > > On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > > > > > > >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pen

fstab, nfs

1999-05-26 Thread Johan Pettersson
Hello! I have put this string in my fstab: localhost:/win/dir /ftp/site/dir nfs But it does not work! (I can mount when type mount -t nfs localhost:/win/dir /ftp/site/dir) -- //thx Johan

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Wed, 26 May 1999 13:45:23 -0500 (CDT), Kent West wrote: >On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > >> On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: >> >> >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. >> >> Huh??? >> >> Netscape 4.51 is everything

RE: mail clients

1999-05-26 Thread Christian Dysthe
Well, there is one email client that will do most of what Outlook Express does. XFmail. Not used alone though, but together with exim and fetchmail it works great for me. I have two accounts dealt with fine using XFmail. Using filters, and the option to set a custom "From" for every folder it is v

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread shaleh
> > >> /dev/clipboard would require kernel modifications, and is probably not > >> what you are lookign for. > > > >I don't see why it would? > > Everything in /dev is run by the kernel; when you write or read > a file in /dev, the kernel calls the appropriate driver functions > to deal with it

Re: HELP please !

1999-05-26 Thread moron
Hey, Wolfgang, Something like this happened to me because I gave as my email address one from an e-mail forwarder - geocities, I think, but I sent my cancellation from another address. There's an email administrator at debian you can contact, but now I can't remember how you get his address. Davi

RE: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Person, Roderick
My original reason for switching to Linux was that my poor old box (HANK r.i.p) was only a 486SX33 with 8MB of RAM. I ran X and Netscape on it with no problem. It took time for it to start up Netscape and such apps, but once started the ran with problem. Now I have a P166 overclocked to 200Mhz ru

RE: Just installed Exim - how to I get local/system mail? - SOLVED!

1999-05-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
"David Karlin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Phillip, > I recently installed Exim as well. My /etc/exim.conf includes: > > local_domains = mybox.mylocalnet:localhost > > (replace mybox.mylocalnet with yourbox.yourlocalnet) > > Hope that was of some help, Thanks, David, but I had alread

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread Carl Mummert
>> /dev/clipboard would require kernel modifications, and is probably not >> what you are lookign for. > >I don't see why it would? Everything in /dev is run by the kernel; when you write or read a file in /dev, the kernel calls the appropriate driver functions to deal with it. Thus /dev/ttyS*

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Lazarus Long
On Wednesday, May 26, 1999 at 13:45:23 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: b7f1010c24d9adb791bc476eb3758f69 > > Netscape 4.51 is everything else but slow. You probably simply have too > > little memory. I suggest to install at least 128 megs. > Ya know, we re

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Alec Smith
I have a 486DX2/66 with 8MB which runs perfectly well. Its doing file and print sharing, e-mail, and IP gatewaying. The same machine running Windows 95 basically sucked. For that matter, I even compile stuff on it sometimes. On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ben Collins wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:

Re: DHCP and Samba

1999-05-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Mark Wright wrote: > First off, thanks for everyone who helped me find dhcpc. That plus the > mini-HOWTO was enough to get my Debian box working with my office network. > > Unfortunately, I had to go back to a static ip address, because dchpc and > samba aren't cooperating. If I use a static ip

Re: System crash!!! How do I recover when my disaster disk doesn't boot

1999-05-26 Thread Ben Cranston
> I was just finished ftping a file to get Mosaic running when, as root, I > issued this command from my /bin directory: mv lib* /temp. > ... this seems to have erased my filesystem and commands (as may > already be obvious to some of you.) > Now my system hangs during boot. I can't seem to recove

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread scratch
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: > /dev/clipboard would require kernel modifications, and is probably not > what you are lookign for. I don't see why it would? > What WOULD be useful would be an X11 app that has the following feature: > > When you run this app from the command line, a

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Ben Collins
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:45:23PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > > > On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > > > > >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does > > > > Huh??? > > > > Netscape 4.51 is

Re: apt-get problem: /usr not in fstab

1999-05-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 26 May 1999, trapstep wrote: > i don't even understand why apt/dpkg wants to remount sth thats isn't mounted, > for me, it seems like a bug in dpkg > BTW i'm using apt0.3.6 and dpkg1.4.1.1 on a potato distro If you look in /etc/apt/apt.conf I'll bet it is a copy of the example configura

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Kent West
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Ralf G. R. Bergs wrote: > On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: > > >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does > > Huh??? > > Netscape 4.51 is everything else but slow. You probably simply have too > little memory. I s

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread Carl Mummert
Assuming that you can get the output of your program into a file (via script or some other method), then you could use a native X editor to open the file, copy all the text, and paste it somewhere. I am surprised I didn't think of this earlier, but I don't use X much. Carl

apt-get problem: /usr not in fstab

1999-05-26 Thread trapstep
Hi! i tried to update some packages (kde) with apt-get. apt fetched the files without probs (except that it said: lockd: failed to monitor 192.168.1.1) but when it tries to install them, i get the following output: Fetched 2715kb in 6m26s (7030b/s) mount: can't find /usr in /etc/fstab or /etc/mta

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread David Wright
Apologies for reordering this posting, but I deleted the original. Quoting Lazarus Long ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Jim Foltz wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > There are times when I need to cut and paste the output from a command > > > line program into a graphical program. The problem occurs wh

Re: access rights on /dev/ttyS1

1999-05-26 Thread Ingo Hohmann
On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 06:15:41PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > Ingo Hohmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: <...> > > one of the cron scripts seems to change access rights > > on /dev/ttyS1 once in a while to <...> > pppd changes /dev/ttyS1 (if that is the modem device) to Yes, it is. > crw-r-

Re: missing ldd

1999-05-26 Thread Ingo Hohmann
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:14:47AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Subject: Re: missing ldd > Date: Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:07:37AM -0500 > > In reply to:Brad > > Quoting Brad([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > On Tue, 25 May 1999, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > So? I don't understand. Do you have

piping text from command into X selection (cut and paste) buffer

1999-05-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I deleted the original post from someone who asked about the existence of such a utility. Anyway, I have always wished I had such a utility myself so I determined to write one. I used Qt to write it since I'm not versed in low-level X programming. I'm including the code and will send a binary to an

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Philip Thiem
Netscape isn't bad once you get it loaded. Though I do admit it may be slow on older pentiums with < 64 megs of RAM(32 on faster ones). Check out opera as mentioned if the port is availble(if don't know) it's noticably faster than Netscape--at least on win32 machines. However if you like netscap

Re: Star Office installation

1999-05-26 Thread Peter Allen
Where did you get the tar from. It sounds vaguely like you have got one part of a series of tars. The tar should be about 70Mb. Peter Allen Ming Hsu wrote: > > Finally decided to install Star Office, and didn't expect any trouble > since I already have glibc 2 and others instal

apache-ssl -- was Potatoe - usable ?

1999-05-26 Thread may-law.com
> > (apache-ssl still won't start, don't ask why, I don't have time to > > investigate anyway =P ) > > Apache-ssl works here, but NS won't interact well with it, due to keys > or similar. (I also haven't had time to look into it.) Lynx-ssl works > fine with it, so far. I had the same problem

Re: awe64 sound problems

1999-05-26 Thread Peter Allen
The PCI64 is a very different card. You need 2.2 kernel and to compile in ess 1370 support. If you have already done that then I have no idea. (I don't have that card anymore because I didn't like it.) Peter Allen Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN wrote: > > I got kind of same pr

R: SAMBA documentation???

1999-05-26 Thread Fabio Massimo Di Nitto
-Messaggio originale- Da: Paul Nathan Puri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A: debian-user@lists.debian.org Data: mercoledì 26 maggio 1999 17.12 Oggetto: SAMBA documentation??? >I received responses some months ago about a detailed howto for > setting up samba. Can someone who knows point me do howt

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread Carl Mummert
/dev/clipboard would require kernel modifications, and is probably not what you are lookign for. What WOULD be useful would be an X11 app that has the following feature: When you run this app from the command line, and send text to its standard input, the app places that text in the X clipboard

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread Lazarus Long
On Wednesday, May 26, 1999 at 11:05:04 -0500, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (WinNT; U) > X-UIDL: 3a16f0cf84bd797896563dee72790984 > > That's a good idea. However, rather than /dev/X all you need is an X program > which > would read

Re: HELP please !

1999-05-26 Thread Lazarus Long
On Wednesday, May 26, 1999 at 06:54:31 -0400, Ralph Winslow wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.1 i586) > X-UIDL: 367457b1dda1b9f617c05d879e8ad7d2 > > > or if using linux at the prompt > > mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Potatoe - usable ?

1999-05-26 Thread Lazarus Long
On Wednesday, May 26, 1999 at 15:40:09 +, Christian Lavoie wrote: > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > X-UIDL: 042baf373091adefce6011895aef58a8 > > > So what the consensus of opinion, is potatoe usable at the moment ? I have found potato to be quite usable. > Potato, as compared to slink

gawk, rsync, mirror

1999-05-26 Thread mcclosk
Hello. I have two questions that I would appreciate some advice on, if anyone has time. I'm running slink with a 2.0.36 kernel. [1] I'd like to try `gawk' instead of `mawk' (currently installed). But `mawk' can't be removed by dpkg since basefiles depends on it. Is apt smart enough to ha

KDE

1999-05-26 Thread Brian Schramm
I have found the deb files for version 1.1.1 on kde's site for hamm. Will these work on slink? -- Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Boot probblem with xdm

1999-05-26 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 26 May, Armin Wegner wrote about "Re: Boot probblem with xdm" > > I don't use xdm. I always start X with xinit. So I can set the color depth > to the value I need each time. > You could instead have multiple xdm sessions on different vt's, each with a different color depth. Edit your /etc/

Re: Changed CDROM hdd to hdb

1999-05-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Khalid EZZARAOUI ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > change your link file : /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/hdb > and use /dev/cdrom everywhere you want ... except in /etc/fstab where the entry should be the appropriate /dev/hdX else umount won't work properly. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: OFFTOPIC: How about a /dev/clipboard ?

1999-05-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
That's a good idea. However, rather than /dev/X all you need is an X program which would read from standard input and put whatever it gets there onto the clipboard. Now that you mention this I'm surprised someone hasn't done it. Jim Foltz wrote: > Hello, > > There are times when I need to cut a

Re: pon & .ppprc

1999-05-26 Thread Joe Raube
Same format as /etc/ppp/options. -Joe > O.K. When I try to dial my isp with pon, I get the old "can't find ~/.ppprc" > error. I have tried to find some information on the format of this file to no > avail. If one of you could point to a source for this info I would appreciate > it. Thanx > > Ben

Re: Boot probblem with xdm

1999-05-26 Thread Bruce Sass
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:23:34AM -0500, shadowze wrote: <...> > > Is there a way to stop the boot process before xdm starts? > > If not I guess I will have to reinstall. > > > > Im on the digest and not on USER so make sure Im cc:'d. > > Thanks in adva

Re: Boot probblem with xdm

1999-05-26 Thread Armin Wegner
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:53:12AM -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: > How can I turn xdm off so that I can directly boot into a console and and > then run startx to get to X? Hi, in slink, you have to uninstall xdm. In hamm, you have to add the line "no-start-xdm" to /etc/X11/xconfig. I don't use

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 23 May 1999 20:51:55 -0500, Matthew W. Roberts wrote: >Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does Huh??? Netscape 4.51 is everything else but slow. You probably simply have too little memory. I suggest to install at least 128 megs. -- Sign the EU petitio

Re: apt-get: did not finish the job?

1999-05-26 Thread Keith G. Murphy
Johann Spies at Johann wrote: > > Last night I installed libc6_2.1.1-7 and potato's xcdroast using apt-get > on my hamm system. During the process the ncurses package was also > upgraded. > > Today when I ran "make menuconfig" in my kernel-source tree I get the > following error message: > [cut]

Re: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread trapstep
There is a port of Opera for LinuX in progress...don't knnow when it will be released, but as far as i know opera meets your requirements. -- <==> If you wanna contact me for any reason, do it! You'll reach me at:

Internal system account transactions

1999-05-26 Thread superfly
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Internal system account transactions

1999-05-26 Thread superfly
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DHCP and Samba

1999-05-26 Thread Mark Wright
First off, thanks for everyone who helped me find dhcpc. That plus the mini-HOWTO was enough to get my Debian box working with my office network. Unfortunately, I had to go back to a static ip address, because dchpc and samba aren't cooperating. If I use a static ip address, I can browse the Deb

Re: Makefile and -rpath

1999-05-26 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:17:55 -0500, Ian Keith Setford wrote: > I would like to use an rpath command in a Makefile but I haven't figured > out how to include it. Can anyone help? That's a fairly vague question; it depends on the makefile. E.g. foo:foo.o ld -rpath=/opt/sybase/lib -o

Re: [Re: gIDE make error]

1999-05-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: [Re: gIDE make error] Date: Wed, May 26, 1999 at 12:56:23AM -0700 In reply to:Sherab Puntsok Quoting Sherab Puntsok([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; > When trying, in the past, to compile code-crusader, I always was missing something or other. So couldn

Re: magicfilter and a2ps

1999-05-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: magicfilter and a2ps Date: Wed, May 26, 1999 at 01:09:29PM +0200 In reply to:Alberto Maurizi Quoting Alberto Maurizi([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Does anybody use a2ps in magicfilter as the default for > plain text? (e.g. to avoid waste of paper, save forests I

Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Matthew W. Roberts
Netscape 4.51 for X is just too slow on my slightly dated pentium. Does anyone have any suggestions for a smaller, faster graphical browser? All the possibilities I can find seem to be alpha or beta releases (arena, gzilla, etc.) The browser should also be CSS compliant and have a pretty good la

Re: magicfilter and a2ps

1999-05-26 Thread Ramin Motakef
>Alberto Maurizi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Does anybody use a2ps in magicfilter as the default for > plain text? (e.g. to avoid waste of paper, save forests > ... and get nicer presentation of plain text ...) > > If so, how could the filename and username > be printe

Re: awe64 sound problems

1999-05-26 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
"Nadarajah, Dinesh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | I read somewhere that AWE32 driver works only for kernels later than 2.0.36. | I might be wrong (anybody???). As far as I know this isn't true. I've been using the AWE32 driver since at least 2.0.32, if not earlier. Of course something could've cha

Re: Potatoe - usable ?

1999-05-26 Thread Christian Lavoie
> Patrick Colbeck wrote: > > So what the consensus of opinion, is potatoe usable at the moment ? I > > dont mind some problems but is it reasonably stable ? > i upgraded from slink to potato (via dselect/apt-get) an my system runs > suficciently well. ther was some trouble during reboot, can't r

Re: pon & .ppprc

1999-05-26 Thread John Hasler
Ben Lutgens writes: > O.K. When I try to dial my isp with pon, I get the old "can't find > ~/.ppprc" error. It's a known bug in pppd. Create an empty .ppprc. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: Potatoe - usable ?

1999-05-26 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Patrick Colbeck wrote: > So what the consensus of opinion, is potatoe usable at the moment ? I > dont mind some problems but is it reasonably stable ? i upgraded from slink to potato (via dselect/apt-get) an my system runs suficciently well. ther was some trouble during reboot, can't realy rememe

RE: awe64 sound problems

1999-05-26 Thread Nadarajah, Dinesh
I read somewhere that AWE32 driver works only for kernels later than 2.0.36. I might be wrong (anybody???). -D -Original Message- From: Mark Bathie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 3:25 AM To: d

Re: security problems in innd

1999-05-26 Thread Jens Ritter
Pere Camps <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi! > > I've just installed innd and besides the tipical allowing of > access for some hosts that I guess it must exists, are there any other > security considerations I should follow? Well this is not easily answered, to be more exact a complete an

Re: Changed CDROM hdd to hdb

1999-05-26 Thread trapstep
hi! normally, your cdrom device is linked to /dev/cdrom so you should relink it to the new device: rm /dev/cdrom ln -s /dev/hdb /dev/cdrom -- <==> If you wanna contact me for any reason, do it! You'll reach me at: m

Re: Changed CDROM hdd to hdb

1999-05-26 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
change your link file : /dev/cdrom to point to /dev/hdb and use /dev/cdrom everywhere you want

Re: awe64 sound problems

1999-05-26 Thread Peter Makholm
I got this in private mail. I don't think it's confidental. If I'm wrong sue me. "Mark Bathie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I have been trying to set up my awe64Pnp on kernel 2.0.36. I have >>> been through just about every doc there is but still I have no luck. >>Do you use isapnp? > yea

Re: Boot probblem with xdm

1999-05-26 Thread W. Paul Mills
Use F1 to get into a tty. Or hold the left shift key down on bootup, and boot up into linux single at the boot prompt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ("shadowze") writes: > My install was going just fine until until I installed X on and ran the > XF86 setup. Was curious about it. I can hand edit the xf86.

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

1999-05-26 Thread shaleh
> > On Tue, May 25, 1999 at 03:15:39PM -0400, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Can you be specific and point me to what fails. if it is a matter of making > > ash posix happy, it will be done -- we have the code. Bash is just way too > > heavy for many things. > > > > You

Makefile and -rpath

1999-05-26 Thread Ian Keith Setford
I would like to use an rpath command in a Makefile but I haven't figured out how to include it. Can anyone help? I need this: -rpath=/opt/sybase/lib TIA. -Ian __ Ian K. Setford

Re: magicfilter and a2ps

1999-05-26 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alberto Maurizi ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Does anybody use a2ps in magicfilter as the default for > plain text? (e.g. to avoid waste of paper, save forests > ... and get nicer presentation of plain text ...) > > If so, how could the filename and username > be

Changed CDROM hdd to hdb

1999-05-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You wrote --- Hi, I changed the IDE cables in my PC and now the CDROM drive is at hdb (primary ide slave), and previously it was hdd (secondary IDE slave). I did this when I was messing around getting Win95 to install properly. Now, what file do

xcdroast and HP7200i

1999-05-26 Thread Kenneth Scharf
>I have installed xcdroast 0.96e to try out my HP7200i. >According to >the >supported cdwriters the HP7200 (which is not a >SCSI-drive) is >supported, >but I cannot select it during the setup. The >documentation says about >the >hardware requirements: >* SCSI-Controller running with Linux. (No

Re: Boot probblem with xdm

1999-05-26 Thread Armin Wegner
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:23:34AM -0500, shadowze wrote: > My install was going just fine until until I installed X on and ran the > XF86 setup. Was curious about it. I can hand edit the xf86.cfg if needed > or run the xf86config. During the setup, my bus mouse wasnt recognized so I > quit the se

Potatoe - usable ?

1999-05-26 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Hi After trying to get slink working with gnome and enlightenment and finding lots of annoyances such as gnome-apt causing the ftp method to fail and not being able to turn of enlightenments pager I was thinking of upgrading to potatoe. So what the consensus of opinion, is potatoe usable at the

Did I destroy my CD-RW-disc?

1999-05-26 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
I am for the first time experimenting how to do CD-writing with a HP 7200i. After my first effort using CDROAST on a rewritable cd I could not mount it - my effort to mount it resulting in mount /hp7200 mount: block device /dev/scd0 is write-protected, mounting read-only hdb: ATAPI reset com

magicfilter and a2ps

1999-05-26 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Does anybody use a2ps in magicfilter as the default for plain text? (e.g. to avoid waste of paper, save forests ... and get nicer presentation of plain text ...) If so, how could the filename and username be printed in the a2ps formatted page? I t

Re: HELP please !

1999-05-26 Thread Ralph Winslow
Wayne Topa wrote: > Subject: HELP please ! > In reply to:Wolfgang Fink > Quoting Wolfgang Fink([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > so please, can anybody help me to unsubscribe from this > > mailing-list ? I have tryed almost everything with my Netscape 4.5 - > > Browser und Mailtool. > > > Unsubscri

Re: C function manpages

1999-05-26 Thread John Hasler
Havoc writes: > 'manpages-dev' I think. You're right. It is also priority standard, so I would have thought he'd have it installed. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

A "better" vmstat

1999-05-26 Thread Jarek Lewinski
I am using debian 2.1 on Dell server equipped with 4 scsi hdd. Since the machine is running Oracle I try to distribuate load on all the drives. Under Sun the vmstat command shows some statistics about different drives activities, not only a total amount of reads - writes. Does anybody know about a

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Re: awe64 sound problems

1999-05-26 Thread Pierre-Antoine CHAMPIN
I got kind of same problems with a SB PCI64. And I'm very interested in your solutions too :) PA

dumps failing with "could not connect to data port"

1999-05-26 Thread Max
sk 0 dir /space size 296960 reserving 296960 out of 296960 for degraded-mode dumps driver: start time 225.611 inparallel 4 bandwidth 600 diskspace 296960 dir OBSOL ETE datestamp 19990526 driver: drain-ends tapeq LFFO big-dumpers 1 driver: result time 225.611 from taper: TAPER-OK driver: send-cmd

Re: awe64 sound problems

1999-05-26 Thread Peter Makholm
"Mark Bathie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have been trying to set up my awe64Pnp on kernel 2.0.36. I have > been through just about every doc there is but still I have no luck. Do you use isapnp? -- Peter er den mindst gamle af de gammeldags usenettere, og moderator på den eneste moderered

awe64 sound problems

1999-05-26 Thread Mark Bathie
I have been trying to set up my awe64Pnp on kernel 2.0.36. I have been through just about every doc there is but still I have no luck. Here is a copy of my /dev/sndstat file Sound Driver:3.5.4-960630 (Tue May 25 17:35:07 EST 1999 root, Linux flod 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i686 unkno

Re: [Re: gIDE make error]

1999-05-26 Thread Sherab Puntsok
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Thanks very much for your kind informative link to code-crusader. I've visited the site and found the powerfull features it provides. Then I downloaded and installed it. But more questions are coming. 1. From ftp://ftp.its.caltech.edu/pub/jafl/programs/jcc/Linux-Int

apt-get: did not finish the job?

1999-05-26 Thread Johann Spies at Johann
Last night I installed libc6_2.1.1-7 and potato's xcdroast using apt-get on my hamm system. During the process the ncurses package was also upgraded. Today when I ran "make menuconfig" in my kernel-source tree I get the following error message: There seems to be a pro

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