Re: ftping through a router

1999-06-29 Thread Dubravko
Help me unsubscribe Thanks - Original Message - From: Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: 1999. lipanj 28 18:13 Subject: Re: ftping through a router > > Subject: Re: ftping through a router > Date: Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:09:05AM -0500 > > In reply to:Robert Rati > > Quoting Robert

Re: looking for ssh debian2.0 package

1999-06-29 Thread Brad
On 29 Jun 1999, Jens Ritter wrote: > Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Is there shh binary debian2.0 ( kernel-2.0.36) package? > > If so, where I could find it? > > Please send the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Are you lookgin for a ssh 2.0 binary package, or are you looking for a >

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Brad
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Charles Kaufman wrote: > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > I think that may change everything. Allowing for typos, because you > > copied that off the

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Brad
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I copy /boot/vmlinuz to > c:\loadlin\zimage for loadlin to boot from dos) you need to rdev it. > Typerdev kernel-imageto see what it's set to and > rdev kernel-image /dev/hda2to set it. This saves having to te

Re: How to create rescue disk in Debian

1999-06-29 Thread ktb
Rian Fahrizal wrote: > > I want to know how to create rescue disk in Debian, since I've a problem > with my Debian which slow in startup > Maybe I'm wrong but I'll make the assumption you are booting from a floppy. If so, set up your system to boot off the hard drive. You can use a program suc

ANSI font

1999-06-29 Thread Didi Damian
Well, back to the irrelevant-frivolous messages dept: Does anybody know any good ANSI font that would be readable in a 1280x1024 resolution ? I'm thinking of something similar to 'nexus' but in a 8 pt. size. All I found were *bold*-like fonts, which I dislike. My Eterm is longing for a good loo

Re: ppp problem

1999-06-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Alisdair McDiarmid wrote: > > i've got a wierd problem with ppp (the pon command to be > precise). look: > > [root:/home/alisdair/development/c] # ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/green > -rwxrwxrwx 1 root dip 575 Jun 20 03:37 > /etc/ppp/peers/green > [root:/home/alisdair/development/c] # x >

Re: Modem suddenly broken

1999-06-29 Thread Ed Cogburn
Ben Darnell wrote: > > [Please send/cc all replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Last night (Monday), my modem stopped working. When I try to start ppp, > chat says: > sending "ATZ^M" > expect "OK" > And nothing happens. If I run minicom and try to type at the modem, I get > nothing (my keystrokes a

Re: Proxy server - how to setup two NICs

1999-06-29 Thread Didi Damian
Didi Damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do you have the modules for both NICs compiled ? > > If so, you should home free, usually there's no need to specify IRQ's, ports > and all that > if the cards are different make and model. > > I have a similar setup (I do masquerading not firewall though

Re: Kernel-2.2.1 and Routing

1999-06-29 Thread Didi Damian
comment out the lines 'route add -net ' in /etc/init.d/network. The 2.2.x kernel do the routing internally. Sebastian Canagaratna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am running slink. I recently decided to change the kernel > from 2.0.36 to 2.2.2 from the .deb in slink. > > Ever since I have bee

Re: Proxy server - how to setup two NICs

1999-06-29 Thread Didi Damian
Do you have the modules for both NICs compiled ? If so, you should home free, usually there's no need to specify IRQ's, ports and all that if the cards are different make and model. I have a similar setup (I do masquerading not firewall though) and, when setting up Linux, I first load the ext

mutt samba Lock count exceeded, remove lock?: [y]

1999-06-29 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, About a month ago, I asked about a problem, but never got any response. Perhaps somebody will know the answer now? *** recently, my father began reporting an error when trying to save from mutt to a samba-mounted (W95) drive. Saving locally works fine. The message is: Lock count exceed

Re: Modem Trouble - strange stuff

1999-06-29 Thread Paul Miller
John Hasler wrote: > > Paul Miller writes: > > I get the NO CARRIER in response to the ATZ command. This is the first AT > > command sent to the modem. > > That sounds like a modem problem. Try connecting to the modem with minicom > and sending it ATZ. I have opened Minicom, and I get the NO CA

Re: pbm2ppa printer filter

1999-06-29 Thread Didi Damian
I have it working with dj722c/debian potato/magicfilter. Here are my printcap (generated by magicfilter) and the filter itself: # # Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California. # All rights reserved. # # Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted # provided tha

"Quick" boot from floppy?

1999-06-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
I've always used lilo, but I installed slink on a friends PC and for now he's using a boot floppy (to not interfere with his NT). It boots the whole kernel from the floppy. I thought there was a way to set up a boot floppy that somehow knows to switch to the harddrive partition and boot the kern

ppp problem

1999-06-29 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
i've got a wierd problem with ppp (the pon command to be precise). look: [root:/home/alisdair/development/c] # ls -l /etc/ppp/peers/green -rwxrwxrwx 1 root dip 575 Jun 20 03:37 /etc/ppp/peers/green [root:/home/alisdair/development/c] # x exit [alisdair%letdown ~/development/c] $ ca

Re: looking for ssh debian2.0 package

1999-06-29 Thread Jens Ritter
Jan Krupa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there shh binary debian2.0 ( kernel-2.0.36) package? > If so, where I could find it? > Please send the answer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you lookgin for a ssh 2.0 binary package, or are you looking for a ssh package for Debian 2.0 ? In the latter case ha

Re: Problems with SIAG

1999-06-29 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 21:40:21 +0200 (MET DST), peter karlsson wrote: >> ls -lG /usr/doc/siag/siag/docs/siag.html >-rw-r--r-- 1 root 1209 feb 5 02:32 /usr/doc/siag/siag/docs/siag.html >Any ideas why I can't open them? What are the permi

Problems with SIAG

1999-06-29 Thread peter karlsson
Hi! I'm having problems running SIAG under Debian 2.1. The on-line help doesn't open, it complains that the file 'file:/usr/doc/siag/siag/docs/siag.html' doesn't exist, which it does: > ls -lG /usr/doc/siag/siag/docs/siag.html -rw-r--r-- 1 root 1209 feb 5 02:32 /usr/doc/siag/siag/docs/

Re: language WP8

1999-06-29 Thread Bradley Bell
try here: ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/cnet/win95/business/ the modules are in the GUILGxx directories, where xx is the language you want. -brad On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Cuno Sonnemans wrote: > Hi, > > Where can I find the language modules for the download > version of WP 8. > > HTH > > Cuno

Re: Banner page (job)

1999-06-29 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Well, :sh: should've fixed it. Perhaps you could post your printcap. Rudy Broersma wrote: > Hi, > > I have a couple printers here, (all the same problem). > > The problem is that linux (rh 5.2) 'adds' some sort of banner page after the > print job. Which tells me who send the job, etc, etc. (abou

Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-29 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Jonathan Guthrie wrote: *SNIP* > However, I expect I'm the only one who thinks that's the proper > approach so, how's this for a solution: Give the /usr/include/asm and > /usr/include/linux directories up as lost causes. Instead, define new > directories. Say /usr/include/kernel-asm and /usr/incl

Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-29 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: > >It's not the symlinks, it's the contents of /usr/include/*.h that's the > >problem. > They are the problem, but they cannot be fixed. Since the GNU C library > is portable to various kernels and hardware platforms, it has to get > its information about

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-29 Thread [ Kaa ]
From: charles kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Thanks for the hint. Of course I don't know whether it's a BIOS disk geometry problem. In fact fdisk says the disk has 1027 cylinders. ^^ But it reports hda1 (dos) is 1 to 64, hda2 (linux) is 65 t

Re: vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??

1999-06-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
The bug number is 40445. Rob On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 09:38:05AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 29 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "Re: vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??" > > On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:37:39AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > >> *- On 25 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "vnc-doc conflicts wit

Re: How to intall a Modem in Linux

1999-06-29 Thread Vincent Kujala
This is a follow-up for those interested. We have an OEM 3Com/USRobotics USR3030 56k FAX Internal Modem (an 8bit ISA PnP card with jumpers) in a ASUS P2B-F mainboard in a dual-boot Win95/Linux configuration. We also have a 16bit ISA PnP SoundBlaster (Vibra16) sound card (no IRQ/IO jumpers). On t

Re: your mail

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hello On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com wrote: > Regarding > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > Are you sure you are not having BIOS/disk geometry problems? AFAIK with > certain BIOSes the Linux root partition must be within the first 1024 > cylind

StarOffice help

1999-06-29 Thread Brian Schramm
I have downloaded the 5.1 version of StarOffice. I am using Debian 2.1 (slink). I use fetchmail and sendmail on my local machine to recieve and send mail. I use the pop3 and IMAP servers on my local machine to have some programs get access to my mail. I have configured StarOffice to use the p

Re: X11: Zoom not working since upgrade to slink

1999-06-29 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 12:38:13AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Ulrik Haugen wrote: > > > * Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > # Uncomment this to disable the / mode switching > > > # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. > > > > > > #DontZoom >

[no subject]

1999-06-29 Thread [ Kaa ]
Regarding "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" Are you sure you are not having BIOS/disk geometry problems? AFAIK with certain BIOSes the Linux root partition must be within the first 1024 cylinders (typically, first 512Mb) of the hard disk, otherwise problems appear. Since you

Banner page (job)

1999-06-29 Thread Rudy Broersma
Hi, I have a couple printers here, (all the same problem). The problem is that linux (rh 5.2) 'adds' some sort of banner page after the print job. Which tells me who send the job, etc, etc. (about 4 lines) Now, I HATE this, and I want to turn it off..And that's the hard part. You see, I got this

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread Charles Kaufman
Hi Thanks again. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > I think that may change everything. Allowing for typos, because you > copied that off the screen, did it really say FAT 12? It look

Re: BEWARE: Exim in potato.

1999-06-29 Thread Joerg Plate
> also if you are running fetchmail. exim 3.02-1 will not work with fetchmail. It works for me... mda "/usr/sbin/exim -bm %T" -- "I'm working on it." "There should be more math. This could be mathier."

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello again > > On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > > > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > > > > Is there somewhere in the kernel that remembers it used to boot fro

Re: Uninstalling RPMs?

1999-06-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Revenant wrote: > How do I uninstall an RPM I installed with Alien please? dpkg --purge or apt-get remove The RPM is not installed as rpm, but alien transforms it into a debian package before it gets installed as I understand it. Johann ---

Re: vim 5.4m BETA packages

1999-06-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Branden Robinson wrote: > Do it, man. Athena OWNS you. :) Okay, now I want a second from someone who isn't defending his own package :) Wichert. -- == This combination of bytes forms a message written to yo

Digest off-line?

1999-06-29 Thread Gernot Bauer
Hi, I subscribed the digest about a year ago. Since sunday, it stopped (means, I do not receive any debian-user-digests anymore :( ) Are there problems with the digest? Gery -- -- Wolfgang Gernot BauerSKWB Schoellerbank AG

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hello again On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, David Wright wrote: > Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > Is there somewhere in the kernel that remembers it used to boot from > > /dev/hda3?> > Yes. When you copy a kernel (e.g. I cop

Re: /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-29 Thread Carl Mummert
>I would have thought that someone would have figured out by now that >/usr/include/linux (at the very least) should reflect the status of the >kernel so that kernel-specific stuff can be done and that NOTHING in the >library or in the include files associated with that library should depend >upon

Re: vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??

1999-06-29 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 29 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "Re: vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??" > On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:37:39AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: >> *- On 25 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??" >> > Why does vnc-doc conflict with vncserver and xvncviewer? That is dumb. >> > >> >>

X on STB GMX

1999-06-29 Thread Åsmund Ødegård
Hi, Anyone with a XF86Config file which works with a STB GMX2000 card?? -- Åsmund Ødegård http://www.ifi.uio.no/~aasmundo/sider/main.html

pthreads man pages?

1999-06-29 Thread Christopher J. Morrone
Where are the pthreads man pages for potato? The pthread libraries and such seem to be in libc6 and libc6-dev. Is this a package bug?

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, jacko wrote: > Hmm . . . that doesn't really do it for me . . . any way somebody could > make a wave and post it somewhere? Three syllables, accent on the first. Deb sounds like Debbie, web and february. ian sounds like Ian: long e sound like we, tree, see, me, bee. Sounds li

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 09:07:00AM -0500, jacko wrote: > Hmm . . . that doesn't really do it for me . . . any way somebody could > make a wave and post it somewhere? I could plug in a microphone and do it.. but that'd just be my interpretation too. "Debian GNU/Linux" is really the nasty pronuncia

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-29 Thread jacko
Hmm . . . that doesn't really do it for me . . . any way somebody could make a wave and post it somewhere? On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 11:29:49PM -0800, Ben Lutgens wrote: > > Did anyone actually say how to pronounce "Debian"? I have heard it several > >

Re: kill the child process

1999-06-29 Thread Ulrik Haugen
* Shao Zhang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > In my C program, I have created a child process to do some timeout > stuff in case something goes wrong. > > But when I exit the main program, how do I kill this child process > since I no longer need it?? > > I have checked the ma

RE: kill the child process

1999-06-29 Thread Lewis, James M.
check out the man page for the "kill" system call. It's in section 2. You should have the pid since you started the child... jim >-- >From: Shao Zhang[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 1:12 AM >To:Debian Mail List >Cc:The recipient's address is unknown. >Subj

fdisk switching between w98 & Linux

1999-06-29 Thread Roy John Little
For about the past two months I have been using Debian Linux, version 2.1, which has been sharing my hard disk with a previously installed w98. My computer is at home and is not connected to the internet. I have been switching between the os's by setting and unsetting the active partition flag wit

Kernel-2.2.1 and Routing

1999-06-29 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I am running slink. I recently decided to change the kernel from 2.0.36 to 2.2.2 from the .deb in slink. Ever since I have been having problems of the following sort: 1. Network connections are OK: I can connect to the outside. 2. However, when it boots up I see the message ( twice )

Server problems: YPBIND and NFS with Solaris

1999-06-29 Thread Gordon Henderson
I recently built a new server for the staff here to use. Previously we'd been running a PII/333 with a handful of SCSI disks, running Samba and NFS to export it's disks to Win NT/9x machines and Solaris machines. It was based on Debian 1.3 and kernel 2.0.36. A very stable machine, but it had alway

Re: vim 5.4m BETA packages

1999-06-29 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: > I tried to install your version on a slink system (with slink GNOME stuff > installed) and it seg faulted. Hmm, perhaps I should have mentioned that. I compiled these on an unstable system, so the resulting binary will indeed only run on other systems running

Re: A stylistic question?

1999-06-29 Thread Dieter Jäger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Revenant wrote: >Hi. I finally worked out how to do the Linux equivalent of batch files >(scripts) and was wondering if there was a generally accepted directory >for keeping user (and/or root) scripts in. > Hi, Comparing ms doze batch files

Modem suddenly broken

1999-06-29 Thread Ben Darnell
[Please send/cc all replies to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Last night (Monday), my modem stopped working. When I try to start ppp, chat says: sending "ATZ^M" expect "OK" And nothing happens. If I run minicom and try to type at the modem, I get nothing (my keystrokes are not even echoed back). It's a

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread David Wright
Quoting charles kaufman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi > Thanks Brad. > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > > > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > > > It's still trying to mount root from hda3. i don't know why, since you say > > you've checked and rechecked to make sure /etc/

Re: How to pronouce "Debian"?

1999-06-29 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 27, 1999 at 11:29:49PM -0800, Ben Lutgens wrote: > Did anyone actually say how to pronounce "Debian"? I have heard it several > ways, but the way I prefer to say it is with a Long e as in tree, as opposed > to a short e then. You could say it that way, but it'd be wrong :-) It's a mix

Re: Getting Mpeg Trackname?

1999-06-29 Thread Andrew Holmes
Hi, That sounds great, at the moment te tracks I've been reorganinsing have been copied of a few iffy cd-rs but I have quite a few CDs that I'd like to convert. Thanks alot :-) On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:00:34AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: > > Debian has two wrapper-scripts that get CDDB info of

Uninstalling RPMs?

1999-06-29 Thread Revenant
How do I uninstall an RPM I installed with Alien please? -- Revenant [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- "The whole principle is wrong; it's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't eat steak." - author Robert A. Heinlein on censorship.

Re: debian for ISP use

1999-06-29 Thread F.P. Groeneveld
Chad A.Adlawan Redirected by Jude Ramas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: : May I ask what ISP's are presently using Debian and how widespread is its use ? If possible can you supply me with URL's because most of the talk we see on the net is re RedHat. My ISP, Cistron, uses Debi

How to create rescue disk in Debian

1999-06-29 Thread Rian Fahrizal
I want to know how to create rescue disk in Debian, since I've a problem with my Debian which slow in startup

Re: xfree86 3.3.3.x slink apt

1999-06-29 Thread Matthew Dalton
See the many threads on this list about getting the Matrox G200 card working under Slink. I suspect that they apply to your problem also. TNT is supported in 3.3.3.1. I don't know which server you should use though, I suspect that the SVGA server would be the one as that's usually where new card d

xfree86 3.3.3.x slink apt

1999-06-29 Thread Geocrawler.com
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by "Joakim Svensson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Be sure to reply to that address. Hi all, Sorry if this has been asked a million times before. Just don't read on if it has. But if someone got a few minutes I would appreciate it. . OK. Some problems. I have

Re: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-29 Thread Gregory T. Norris
Actually, ~/.bashrc is used only for interactive, non-login shells. If the xterm is invoked with the "-ls" option, it won't be used (unless it's explicitly sourced within ~/.bash_profile, of course). On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 08:16:18PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > On 29-Jun-99 Carl Fink

Re: XFree86 & G200

1999-06-29 Thread Alec Smith
Yep -- Debs at ftp.netgod.net/x APT line (for /etc/apt/sources.list) deb http://ftp.netgod.net x/ On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone found an elegant solution to using a Matrox G200 card with > XFree86. The one that comes with release 2.1 is XFree86 3.3.2

Re: X11: Zoom not working since upgrade to slink

1999-06-29 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Ulrik Haugen wrote: > * Johann Spies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > # Uncomment this to disable the / mode switching > > # sequences. This allows clients to receive these key events. > > > > #DontZoom > > > > The mode-switching is not working although the above lines are an e

Happy with ppp finally ;-)

1999-06-29 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Thanks very much to those who took your time to help me out with this problem. I finally got my modem to respond. I notice that other people were having similar problem so this is all I did: I went to Windows and found out where my modem was(COM and IRQ). So I found out it was in Com3(ttyS2 in

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-29 Thread Michael Merten
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 05:35:09AM -0400, Isabelle Poueriet wrote: > Hello and thanks a million to those who have responded to my request for > taking some of your precious time to help me out. > > I downloaded wvdial and minicom like some of you suggested and wvdial > cannot find my modem. I sent

RE: BEWARE: Exim in potato.

1999-06-29 Thread Pollywog
On 29-Jun-99 Christian Dysthe wrote: > also if you are running fetchmail. exim 3.02-1 will not work with fetchmail. > fetchmail complains about not being able to connect to localhost. > Yes, but that is a problem with ipv6. There is a patch. It was posted on the Exim list this morning. -- And

kill the child process

1999-06-29 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, sorry for this none-debian specific question. In my C program, I have created a child process to do some timeout stuff in case something goes wrong. But when I exit the main program, how do I kill this child process since I no longer need it??

Re: (vmware) /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-29 Thread ferret
My bad. the install.pl, IIRC, suggests unpacking vmnet-only.tar and/or vmmon-only.tar and making the modules by hand if it can't autobuild them. You'll get vmnet-only/Makefile and vmmon-only/Makefile. Again, IIRC. My vmware box is currently in M$ mode so I can play a game. :> On Mon, 28 Jun 1999,

Re: vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??

1999-06-29 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 10:37:39AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: > *- On 25 Jun, Rob Mahurin wrote about "vnc-doc conflicts with vnc??" > > Why does vnc-doc conflict with vncserver and xvncviewer? That is dumb. > > > > Because the old vnc and vnc-doc packages are replaced by the > newer split packa

RE: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1124

1999-06-29 Thread Jolyon Ansuz
Does anyone have, please, any information on how to aquire and install drivers for the Ensoniq 2510 Audio Card? Jolyon Ansuz Technology - E*Trade Australia - www.etrade.com.au - "Someday we'll all invest this way." -- - -- "The cont

Re: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS X-WINDOWS? (I'M SO CONFUSED!)

1999-06-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 11:04:40PM -0700, Wendell Buckner wrote: >WHAT PACKAGE CONTAINS X WINDOWS!!! There are many pieces to the X Window System. The best place to start is the xfree86-common package: Package: xfree86-common Status: install ok installed Priority: standard Section: x11 Insta

RE: BEWARE: Exim in potato.

1999-06-29 Thread Christian Dysthe
also if you are running fetchmail. exim 3.02-1 will not work with fetchmail. fetchmail complains about not being able to connect to localhost. On 28-Jun-99 George Bonser wrote: > > The Exim 3.02-1 is broken when run as a daemon. It works fine under tcp > wrappers. > > If you run as a daemon it

X Resolution Problems?

1999-06-29 Thread Revenant
I've downloaded the i740 drivers for X, set up a symbolic link from XBF (the i740 driver) to X and that works. I've configured it using XF86Setup. It will run if I set it to VGA, but if I set it to SVGA I get an: X11TransSocketUNIXConnect : Cannot connect errvo 111 I got it to run in 1024 x 76

epic4 pre2.004-19990618-[12] are BROKEN (Was: Uploaded epic4 pre2.004-19990618-3 (source i386) to master)

1999-06-29 Thread Joseph Carter
/* Don't crosspost replies! */ Sorry this didn't get out before but I didn't realize that mutt wasn't working and have just managed to make it work again today. Before you can upgrade to the latest version of epic4 (or any version for that matter) YOU MUST fix the prerm, which I broke in pre2.004

Re: [Re: X-server for Matrox Millennium G200 AGP]

1999-06-29 Thread Matthew Dalton
Rathon, Before I answer your question, a warning: There have been quite a few threads on this list lately about getting the G200 to work under Debian. The most 'Debian-like' solution (if there is such a thing :) is to point apt to some ftp site that has the slink debs for the latest X packages an

Re: still configuring PPP :-(

1999-06-29 Thread Isabelle Poueriet
Thanks Jon, On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Jonathan D. Proulx wrote: > Have you tried calling your modem by /dev/ttyS0 /dev/ttyS1 /dev/ttyS3? > Yeap. I also installed wvdial and it searches for the modem in ttyS0 and ttyS1 but not in ttyS2, which where it is. This was tonight. On Friday it did look in

Re: vim 5.4m BETA packages

1999-06-29 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 01:39:32AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > I might create a vim-xaw later, which will be the same as vim but with > an Xaw frontend. If you want this please let me know, otherwise I might > just take the easy way out and skip it:). Do it, man. Athena OWNS you. :) -- G.

RE: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-99 Carl Fink wrote: > [This message has also been posted.] > I have a system that was installed from a Debian 2.0 CD-ROM, with > many packages upgraded to 2.1 or unstable via the web site. > > One thing that has bugged me ever since I switched to gdm: my > .bashrc and .bash_profile fil

RE: WHERE IN THE WORLD IS X-WINDOWS? (I'M SO CONFUSED!)

1999-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-99 Wendell Buckner wrote: > I hate to be a novice Linux/Unix user but I can't help what I am! > Someone...please tell me > > WHAT PACKAGE CONTAINS X WINDOWS!!! > The X Window System is a client server interface. You need client applications (like those you listed) and a server t

.bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-29 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] I have a system that was installed from a Debian 2.0 CD-ROM, with many packages upgraded to 2.1 or unstable via the web site. One thing that has bugged me ever since I switched to gdm: my .bashrc and .bash_profile files are never read. Now, I realize that I'm

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS X-WINDOWS? (I'M SO CONFUSED!)

1999-06-29 Thread Wendell Buckner
I hate to be a novice Linux/Unix user but I can't help what I am!  Someone...please tell me   WHAT PACKAGE CONTAINS X WINDOWS!!!   I have the following packages (I thought one of these might be X):   dfm_0_9_1-4.debexplorer_0_72-2_1.debexplorer-icons-kde_0_72-2_1.debexplorer-icons-ms_0_72

OK, who took my 'red' ?

1999-06-29 Thread Didi Damian
Excerpt from .muttrc: ### Colors: color[regexp] # color normal whiteblack # using 'color normal' doesn't work color attachment greendefault color boldblue white color error red white color hdrdefault brightblack default color header magenta defau

Re: XFree86 & G200

1999-06-29 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 28 Jun, Parrish M Myers wrote about "XFree86 & G200" > Hello, > > Has anyone found an elegant solution to using a Matrox G200 card with > XFree86. The one that comes with release 2.1 is XFree86 3.3.2 wich does > > not support the G200. Short of getting a new version of XFree86 and > recom

Re: XFree86 & G200

1999-06-29 Thread Shao Zhang
Just get the latest binaries SVGA from xfree86 website and replace the svga server in the slink then everything should be fine... On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 06:54:37PM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote: > Hello, > > Has anyone found an elegant solution to using a Matrox G200 card with > XFree86. The on

XFree86 & G200

1999-06-29 Thread Parrish M Myers
Hello, Has anyone found an elegant solution to using a Matrox G200 card with XFree86. The one that comes with release 2.1 is XFree86 3.3.2 wich does not support the G200. Short of getting a new version of XFree86 and recompiling it, is there another way? (someone already creating a .deb to use.

Re: (vmware) /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-29 Thread Bob Nielsen
I just looked in vmware-distrib and there ISN'T any Makefile (?). It looks like install.pl handles it (somehow, it's beyond my grasp of perl). Bob On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 06:00:50PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What I've done is put my kernel source's include path in the vmware > Makefil

Interesante nueva idea en Internet

1999-06-29 Thread Aleck Romero
Gana dinero de los que ponen publicidad en la web, suena interesante? no se realmente si funcione pero vale la pena intentarlo. La idea es loca pero logica si los que se anuncian pagan, que le pagen a los que reciben su publicidad... trata esta liga y recibe dinero por ver publicidad mientras nav

Re: debian for ISP use

1999-06-29 Thread Shao Zhang
We are running debian here. If you want to see our website, it is www.cia.com.au. We use slackware last year, and then this year we swiched to debian. Let me know if you need more info... On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 09:54:03PM +0800, Chad A . Adlawan wrote: > (Redirected by Jude Ramas <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-29 Thread charles kaufman
Hi Thanks Brad. On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: > > "kernel panic:VFS:Unable to mount root fs on 03:03" > > It's still trying to mount root from hda3. i don't know why, since you say > you've checked and rechecked to make sure /etc/lilo.conf is correct and > you've run lilo with the correct set

Re: (vmware) /usr/include/linux and /usr/include/asm?

1999-06-29 Thread ferret
What I've done is put my kernel source's include path in the vmware Makefile's include path (FI -I/usr/src/linux-2.3.6/include) and it has worked fine for me. I've also compiled the modules (and my kernel) with egcs (I'm running Slink - have had troubles upgrading to Potato; wanted to see what US

Re: Netscape bookmark-rearranging crashing IDENTIFIED, possibly

1999-06-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Have you ever considered editing the .netscape/bookmarks.html file by hand? Sometimes, but for other kinds of editing. (Sorting out bookmarks involves traversing to the bookmarked page, which of course is easier right in the bookmarks windows--except when it crashe

Re: Modem Trouble - strange stuff

1999-06-29 Thread John Hasler
Paul Miller writes: > I get the NO CARRIER in response to the ATZ command. This is the first AT > command sent to the modem. That sounds like a modem problem. Try connecting to the modem with minicom and sending it ATZ. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, W

Re: vim 5.4m BETA packages

1999-06-29 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Vim 5.4 went into beta recently with the release of vim 5.4m. To > celebrate this fact I have packaged this version so you can try > it without having to build it yourself. > > I have applied all the official patches that have been released > so f