Secure Phone?

1999-06-30 Thread jacko
Anyone know of something like PGPfone but for Linux? tia jacob

Re: Boot Floppy

1999-06-30 Thread ktb
The FreeStuff Web Ring wrote: > > Hello, > > A friend of mine is trying to install Debian 2.1 from the 4 CD Set onto > a computer that doesn't enable booting from a CD Rom. Can you tell me > how to make a boot floppy please? > Much appreciated! > First go to the Debian site and look at the doc

Terminals

1999-06-30 Thread Rudy Broersma
Hi, I've got 5 linux boxes at the moment, and I want to connect a terminal (or two) to all of them. I got it working on 1 system, and it workes fine! But if I copy the configuration files (/etc/gettydefs and /etc/inittab) they still don't work. I just don't get any chars on my terminal screen.

Re: New drive

1999-06-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:51:50PM +0200, Rudy Broersma wrote: > At the moment I have a 810 MB harddisk in my Linux box. I'm going to replace > it with a 12 GB Bigfoot. Can I just 'copy' the partitions? (Using ghost). Or > do I need to reinstall Linux (hate that. When I reinstall something I always

Re: Boot Floppy

1999-06-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
The should be a directory which contains several disk images as well as installation instructions. I don't know where it is on the CD-ROM, but it is in /debian/dists/slink/main/disks-i386/current/ on the ftp sites. Look for something similar in the directory structure. On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 07

HELP: /dev/mixer and SB PCI64V

1999-06-30 Thread Steffen Evers
Hello ! I've tried to get my SB PCI64V (es1371) running under Debian 2.1 and Kernel 2.2.10 and it won't work ! It looks like that the kernel finds the card and everything seems to be ok, but it doesn't make any sound. At boot time I get the following: es1371: version v0.11 time 23:03:47 Jun 30 1999

New drive

1999-06-30 Thread Rudy Broersma
Hi, At the moment I have a 810 MB harddisk in my Linux box. I'm going to replace it with a 12 GB Bigfoot. Can I just 'copy' the partitions? (Using ghost). Or do I need to reinstall Linux (hate that. When I reinstall something I always think of Windows) Bye, Rudy

Boot Floppy

1999-06-30 Thread The FreeStuff Web Ring
Hello, A friend of mine is trying to install Debian 2.1 from the 4 CD Set onto a computer that doesn't enable booting from a CD Rom. Can you tell me how to make a boot floppy please? Much appreciated!

I/O error on /dev/dsp and /dev/audio

1999-06-30 Thread G. Crimp
Hi, I can't write to either /dev/audio or /dev/dsp, even as root. The permissions on both are crw-rw. I discovered when trying to set up RealAudio for a Linux broadcast. When I tried to cat a file to either of these devices I get "cat: write error: Input/output error". I am

Question

1999-06-30 Thread Emil Ruinekov
Hi, I have an Debian Linux instalation CD, but I can't install Linux from this CD. It is manufactured by PC Magazin Bulgaria. Please mail me on [EMAIL PROTECTED] with an advice what can I do. Thank you in advice. _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)

1999-06-30 Thread Dean
I'm not an expert but it was my understanding a low-level format was only done at the factory as it required special equipment, and that a new hard drive was less expensive. Also I thought LILO had a backup utility for the MBR. Dean > > Low-level format is *not* needed any more -- that is, as lo

Re: More problems w/ EXIM upgrade

1999-06-30 Thread Didi Damian
I had that problem also and I entered this in my .muttrc in the sendmail section: ### sendmail ### Type: string ### Default: /usr/lib/sendmail -oi -oem ### Specifies the program and arguments used to deliver mail sent by Mutt. ### Mutt expects that the specified program will read the message head

Re: "Quick" boot from floppy?

1999-06-30 Thread Brian Greenfield
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:44:04 -0600 (MDT), Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I thought there was a way to set up a boot floppy that somehow knows to >switch to the harddrive partition and boot the kernel found there. Like, >installing lilo on a floppy instead of the kernel itself. That's

Re: Kernel 2.2 and slink.

1999-06-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Jun, Bill White wrote about "Kernel 2.2 and slink." > Hi. I'm sorry for bothering, but I am thinking of upgrading my 2.0.36 > kernel to 2.2. I am running a fairly stock installation of slink, but with > more recent kde and gnome packages. I seem to remember some talk on this > list abou

Kernel 2.2 and slink.

1999-06-30 Thread Bill White
Hi. I'm sorry for bothering, but I am thinking of upgrading my 2.0.36 kernel to 2.2. I am running a fairly stock installation of slink, but with more recent kde and gnome packages. I seem to remember some talk on this list about what other packages I need to upgrade, but I can't seem to find in

Re: can't allways fill capacity of ISDN-line

1999-06-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
>> "Johan" == Johan Ur Riise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johan> My system is fairly update with the unstable archive. I have a Johan> dual processor machine, and i run the 2.2.9 kernel. I also run Johan> ipchains. Do you use the stock ISDN drivers from the kernel? I think they are still older th

can't allways fill capacity of ISDN-line

1999-06-30 Thread Johan Ur Riise
My system is fairly update with the unstable archive. I have a dual processor machine, and i run the 2.2.9 kernel. I also run ipchains. When I run ftp or fetchmail, everything is ok. Speed is also ok when i use dselect / apt and download packages. This is what troubles me: When I run lynx, mozill

Re: Using gnome-apt as non-root

1999-06-30 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Sat, Jun 26, 1999 at 08:25:05PM -0400, Stuart Ballard wrote: > Is it possible to arrange for gnome-apt to be usable by a non-root user? Yes, there is sudo. or, I think, you can (in a Xterm ) su export XAUTHORITY=/home/user/.Xauthority gnome-apt It should work but I've not tried. > To run it

How to activate the numeric pad under X?

1999-06-30 Thread Stefan . Ehlen
Hi! Under Debian 2.1, the numeric pad works fine on the console, but under X, only /,*,-,+, NumLock (LED goes on/off) and enter work - the number keys are dead. I tried to get it working with xkeycaps, but failed: The keyboard's layout looks right to me and the numbers are correctly diplayed,

Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo

1999-06-30 Thread Sami Dalouche
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:12:49AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo > when I boot :-). Is there any way I can change this logo? (I'd like > to add some details about my system next to it, kind of like a SUN > when it bo

cd mini sterio does not work

1999-06-30 Thread nee
I got my mini sterio 4 years ago and now when i play a cd, it will play for only a few minutes and then the song stopes and the LPD screen sais `NO DISC`. I eject the cd and put it bach in but it does the same thing over again. I cleanes the lazer with a cd lazer cleaner but that didnt fix the pr

Re: disconnected environment

1999-06-30 Thread Konstantin Kivi
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 10:38:49AM -0700, Greg Baker wrote: > Have a look at the ISP-HOWTO. I seem to remember that putting a fake > fully qualified domain name (ie. linuxbox.mydomain.local) in /etc/hostname > fixed that problem, though. > Thank you, it works now. I also put in /etc/hosts 127.0

Re: X -- switching colour depths on the fly

1999-06-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 01:32:44AM -0700, G. Crimp wrote: > I know about changing resolutions in X by using the Ctrl and Alt > keys along with the keypad + or -. I am wondering now if anyone knows if it > is possible to switch colour depths without restarting X and demanding a > specific dep

Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo

1999-06-30 Thread John Galt
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: It's an easter egg in the VESA Framebuffer support. It's in the docs. > On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:12:49AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > > > Howdy, > > > > I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo > > when I boot :-). Is there

Re: how to reset the text mode?

1999-06-30 Thread jacko
possibly try kill -TERM pid_of_getty or kill -KILL pid_of_getty . . . the gettys should be respawned by init when they go down. jacob On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a box which had its text console frozen by some X app. > The screen froze on ex

Re: PPP pap auth. insists on hostname

1999-06-30 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
You need to use the 'name' or 'user' options to pppd to tell it what to authenticate itself to the remote system as. Otherwise it defaults to the hostname. Lance Heller wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > I'm in process of setting up a stock slink intel box and have run into > a prob

Re: apt-get with a local tree ...

1999-06-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:20:49AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > Where can i get it, i mirrored the i386 potato sunday, and apt_3.9 was > > what i get. > > It was installed on Monday or so. Ok, thanks, will do so ... Friendly, Sven LUTHER

Re: apt-get with a local tree ...

1999-06-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > Where can i get it, i mirrored the i386 potato sunday, and apt_3.9 was > what i get. It was installed on Monday or so. Jason

Re: apt-get with a local tree ...

1999-06-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:12:21AM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > I was using apt_3.9, i think i will fill a bug report for this ... > > Or you could just get 0.3.11 which fixes the problem.. Where can i get it, i mirrored the i386 potato sunday,

Re: apt-get with a local tree ...

1999-06-30 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > I was using apt_3.9, i think i will fill a bug report for this ... Or you could just get 0.3.11 which fixes the problem.. Jason

Re: apt-get with a local tree ...

1999-06-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:03:54AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: > On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > > > deb file:/syjet/debian unstable main. > > > > > > > deb file://syjet/debian unstable main. > > > ^ > > > I think you need the extra / > > > > Does exactly the same effect,

Re: apt-get with a local tree ...

1999-06-30 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, Sven LUTHER wrote: > > > deb file:/syjet/debian unstable main. > > > > > deb file://syjet/debian unstable main. > > ^ > > I think you need the extra / > > Does exactly the same effect, but i think it does not need an extra /, > since apt-get complains that the local

Re: apt-get with a local tree ...

1999-06-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
On Thu, Jul 01, 1999 at 01:40:13AM +1000, Peter Ross wrote: > On 30-Jun-1999, Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, ... > > > > I have a local mirror of the debian ftp archive on my syjet > > cartdridge. I tried upgrading a slink system to potato with apt, but > > : > > > > > >

Re: apt-get with a local tree ...

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Ross
On 30-Jun-1999, Sven LUTHER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, ... > > I have a local mirror of the debian ftp archive on my syjet > cartdridge. I tried upgrading a slink system to potato with apt, but > : > > > I mount my (i386) archive on /syjet, and have the following line in > /etc/ap/

Re: "Quick" boot from floppy?

1999-06-30 Thread John Foster
Rick Macdonald wrote: > > 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

Re: X -- switching colour depths on the fly

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Ross
On 30-Jun-1999, G. Crimp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I know about changing resolutions in X by using the Ctrl and Alt > keys along with the keypad + or -. I am wondering now if anyone knows if it > is possible to switch colour depths without restarting X and demanding a > speci

Re: Netscape<"again">

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Ross
On 30-Jun-1999, per_adua32 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently installed netscape 4.6 from a public ftp site. > I followed the instructions given and tried to use netscape > after starting X window, by typing 'netscape' in an xterm > window. > You can get netscape 4.61 as a debian package b

Re: Backup of MBF (was Hard disk problems)

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Ross
On 30-Jun-1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >From: charles kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works. > >But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that > >for DOS before there was ID

apt-get with a local tree ...

1999-06-30 Thread Sven LUTHER
Hello, ... I have a local mirror of the debian ftp archive on my syjet cartdridge. I tried upgrading a slink system to potato with apt, but : I mount my (i386) archive on /syjet, and have the following line in /etc/ap/sources.list : deb file:/syjet/debian unstable main. but apt-get (versi

how to reset the text mode?

1999-06-30 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
Hi, I have a box which had its text console frozen by some X app. The screen froze on exiting from fvwm95 and nothing works since then: can't switch to VT using Crtl+Alt+Fn or kill X using Crtl+Alt+Backspace. My only solution was to start xdm from another machine so that I can lo

syslogd: CDROM not ready... lines

1999-06-30 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Can anyone please help me to configure my syslog.conf so that I don't get to see these lines in my xconsole all the time: (when there is no CD in the drive) Jun 30 17:18:40 eule kernel: sr0: CDROM not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. Jun 30 17:19:11 eule last message repeated

Licq

1999-06-30 Thread The FreeStuff Web Ring
I tried to install licq from the debian binary cd, but it kept looking for a file that wasn't there. the file was either qt1g or jdk1.1, i forget which because there was another program that i was trying to install that needed the other file. so i downloaded licq from the net and tried to install

Re: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
Paul D. Smith wrote: > If that's really the exact output you get, the answer is obvious; you > don't have ``/home/carlf/bin'' on your PATH. > > You do, however, have ``/home/carlf/bin)'' on your path, a directory which, > I assume, doesn't exist. > > Hint: this is Bourne shell, not C shell; you

RE: Banner page (job)

1999-06-30 Thread Lewis, James M.
If it is *after* the job it is probably the printer network interface and not linux. I had a similar banner from a laserjet printer with an hp network interface in it. The fix is to telnet to the printer (yes, you can do that) and set the banner feature to off. There is a simple help screen. I

SoundCard: FM801

1999-06-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, My friend has got a ForteMedia PCI 3d Sound card comes with the motherboard. I read the Sound-HOWTO, and do not think it is supported... does anyone happened to know which driver is compatible with this card?? Thanks. Shao. -- _

Re: More problems w/ EXIM upgrade

1999-06-30 Thread Lex Chive
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:02:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But now I have a problem with mutt. When ever I try to send a message from > within mutt, I get: > > 'Error sending message, child exited 127 ().' > > And the message is not sent. > > So I went and looked in /etc/Muttrc and f

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-30 Thread [ Kaa ]
From: charles kaufman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'm trying to avoid repartitioning. I will if nothing else works. But I don't know what 'low level format' means. I remember doing that for DOS before there was IDE, but thought it wasn't needed anymore. Thanks for all the information. Chuck Kaufman

Re: More problems w/ EXIM upgrade

1999-06-30 Thread Dan Everton
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 08:02:57AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[snip exim config changes that I know nothing about] > But now I have a problem with mutt. When ever I try to send a message from > within mutt, I get: > > 'Error sending message, child exited 127 ().' > > And the message is n

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Brad wrote: >> > Yes it really says FAT 12 > > What does Linux "fdisk -l" show? Here it is. The segmentation fault at the end is part of the output.(not encouraging) The disk is not all partitioned. fdisk -l The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1027. This is

More problems w/ EXIM upgrade

1999-06-30 Thread vandeveb
I upgraded to the new exim 3.02 and got bitten with the IPV6 problem. So I think I fixed that part. Next I had a config file problem. Whenever I did this: exim -bm -t < message I got this: 1999-06-30 07:53:53 10zJs9-0005ZU-00 Expansion of "Received: ${if def:sender_rcvhost {from ${sender_rcv

Problems with HD Partitions During Slink Installation

1999-06-30 Thread Dan Hatton
I may as well answer my own question for the benefit of the archives; I finally managed to set up my hard drive partitions by switching to another virtual terminal (tty2) and running fdisk instead of cfdisk.

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote:> > > Check the boot= in LILO. I just recently had similar problems and it turned > out that I was writing my new lilo to /dev/hda1 instead of /dev/hda. Thanks. I've tried each of those and get the same error either way. Chuck Kaufman

Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo

1999-06-30 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 30 Jun, Shao Zhang wrote about "Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo" > On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:12:49AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: >> >> I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo >> when I boot :-). Is there any way I can change this logo? (I'd like >> to add

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
Hi > Not necessary. Recently i repartitioned my HD, moved Linux from hda2 to > hda1. Never had any trouble after i restored my filesystem from backups > and reran lilo (after editing lilo.conf and fstab) I did almost that. Instead of restoring from backups I had the old and the new hard drives

Re: Hard disk problems

1999-06-30 Thread charles kaufman
Dear Kaa: Thanks for the suggestions. On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, [ Kaa [EMAIL PROTECTED]@hotmail.com wrote: > Yes, but given that the kernel believes there is FAT12 partition, it seems > that there is something wrong with the partition table or at least the > reading thereof. > > Is the low-level

Re: Exim Problem (I think....)

1999-06-30 Thread Matthew Gregan
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 06:47:38AM -0400, Didi Damian wrote: > Well, it works for me. I'm using kernel 2.2.10. When setting up > fetchmail, I couldn't get it to work so, after reading these posts, > I downgraded to slink exim (2.05). Then I realized I had fetchmailrc > wrong and re-installed exim

Re: Exim Problem (I think....)

1999-06-30 Thread Didi Damian
Well, it works for me. I'm using kernel 2.2.10. When setting up fetchmail, I couldn't get it to work so, after reading these posts, I downgraded to slink exim (2.05). Then I realized I had fetchmailrc wrong and re-installed exim 3.02-1. It's working fine. My kernel is compiled without IPV6 sup

Re: X11: Zoom not working since upgrade to slink

1999-06-30 Thread Johann Spies
On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, John Pearson wrote: > It may be worth checking in /var/log/xdm.log to verify that you *really do* > have more than one video mode available. I have a NEC Multisync 2A upstairs > that claims to do 31.5 & 35.15KHz; on some versions of XFree I've had to > specify the horizontal

Re: 2 NICs - help please

1999-06-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi Nils, I'll give it a try tonight and let you know. Removing the PCI, making ISA work and then replacing the PCI and using the tulip module is most likely the correct approach. Patrick - Original Message - From: Nils Rennebarth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Patrick Kirk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C

Re: 2 NICs - help please

1999-06-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 10:26:37AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > What is isapnp? A program to configure ISA PnP devices. You will need it for most of those. Just do apt-get install isapnp > I've told the BIOS that I don't have a PnP OS. Which means, the BIOS should do the configuration of the ca

X -- switching colour depths on the fly

1999-06-30 Thread G. Crimp
Hi all, I know about changing resolutions in X by using the Ctrl and Alt keys along with the keypad + or -. I am wondering now if anyone knows if it is possible to switch colour depths without restarting X and demanding a specific depth. Thanks, Gerald

Re: 2 NICs - help please

1999-06-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi Nils, Thanks for the reply. What is isapnp? I've told the BIOS that I don't have a PnP OS. I haven't tried removing a card. Are you thinking of removing the PCI, getting ISA to work, reinstalling the PCI and loading the tulip driver? I have no problems trying this but still would like a wa

Re: 2 NICs - help please

1999-06-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:50:32AM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: > One is an Accton PnP ISA which normally runs at io=0x300. The other is a > Dlink 528 PCI card. Please supply more information: Does it run if it is the only card in the system? What driver do you use for the accton (what chip is it?)

2 NICs - help please

1999-06-30 Thread Patrick Kirk
Hi all, I am having a nightmare installing two NICs on one machine. One is an Accton PnP ISA which normally runs at io=0x300. The other is a Dlink 528 PCI card. I cannot get the ISA card recognised at all. I've tried io=240, 260, 280, 300, 320, 340 and 360 as well as the io=0x300 which it shou

Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Makholm
Nico De Ranter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo > when I boot :-). Is there any way I can change this logo? Take a look at http://linux-patches.rock-projects.com/v2.2-f/logo-select.html -- I congratulate you. Happy goldfish bowl t

X -- switching colour depths on the fly

1999-06-30 Thread G. Crimp
Hi all, I know about changing resolutions in X by using the Ctrl and Alt keys along with the keypad + or -. I am wondering now if anyone knows if it is possible to switch colour depths without restarting X and demanding a specific depth. Thanks, Gerald

dns helper w/netscape - can it be turned off?

1999-06-30 Thread Martin Waller
Hello, I managed to break the motherboard of my main pc, so I'm setting up netscape (4.06...) on a an older, funnier machine. Thing is, I'm trying to set up the mail server address under Options|Mail. I enter my providers mail server, and the machine sits for a few minutes. A ps revealed a

Re: Netscape<"again">

1999-06-30 Thread Shao Zhang
You are missing some libraries. In the future, if you have some problem like this, just go to the debian homepage and search for this filename. I have searched for you, and it returns: usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6x11/xlib6g usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6.0

Re: [LINUX] How to change the boot logo

1999-06-30 Thread Shao Zhang
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 09:12:49AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo > when I boot :-). Is there any way I can change this logo? (I'd like > to add some details about my system next to it, kind of like a SUN > when it bo

Netscape<"again">

1999-06-30 Thread per_adua32
I recently installed netscape 4.6 from a public ftp site. I followed the instructions given and tried to use netscape after starting X window, by typing 'netscape' in an xterm window. The following error was printed: netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6' Can anyone help me to get netscape w

[LINUX] How to change the boot logo

1999-06-30 Thread Nico De Ranter
Howdy, I just recompiled my kernel so that I now get a nice penguin logo when I boot :-). Is there any way I can change this logo? (I'd like to add some details about my system next to it, kind of like a SUN when it boots) Nico -- How

Re: QUICK RESPONSE PLEASE: onboard video?

1999-06-30 Thread Ray
Sorry about the funky header.

Re: QUICK RESPONSE PLEASE: onboard video?

1999-06-30 Thread Ray
On Wed, Jun 30, 1999 at 12:17:04PM +0800, Paul Harris wrote: > hi, > > i am looking to buy a new system but I need to know if linux supports the > onboard video and sound that comes with the slot 1 boards (this one is > Intel). The only way to tell is to find out what chipset (brand AND model) th

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

1999-06-30 Thread Wendell Buckner
Thank you everyone for your help with x-windows.  I haven't gotten a chance to apply your suggestions today, but I will attempt to load x tommorrow.  Thanks Again.   Wxb1

Re: named.local

1999-06-30 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Attila" == Attila Csosz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Attila> I'd like to refer to my computer not only as localhost but Attila> mycomputer.mydomain.com also. I've installed the bind Attila> package because of some reasons. I'd like to solve this with Attila> it. I studied it the name

Re: Emacs psgml mode?

1999-06-30 Thread Laurent Martelli
> "Timothy" == Timothy Hospedales <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Timothy> How do I get Xemacs to colorize/facerize HTML tags in psgml Timothy> mode? I did M-x sgml-mode, M-x set-variable, and set Timothy> sgml-set-face to '1' as specified in the psgml doc files, Timothy> but html files a

PPP pap auth. insists on hostname

1999-06-30 Thread Lance Heller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I'm in process of setting up a stock slink intel box and have run into a problem with PPP PAP authentication when using the supplied pppd version 2.3 patch level 5 and diald 0.16.5-3. Normally I'd expect to use the loginId and password for my ISP in the pap-

Re: xroastcd fails to verify

1999-06-30 Thread Arcady Genkin
Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > However, reading audio tracks in xcdroast no longer seems to work, I get the > error "Unsupported CD-ROM" and "Unsupported device, try to force > a specific read mode in setup". You might want to get a version of xcdroast that uses cdparanoia for reading au

RE: Exim Problem (I think....)

1999-06-30 Thread Christian Dysthe
On 30-Jun-99 Peter Ludwig wrote: > I'm running slink (upgraded to potato), and I seem to be having a minor > problem with exim. I cannot receive any email using the system under linux. > > I am running exim & fetchmail > > Exim version 3.0-2, fetchmail () > > Before I upgraded exim, every

QUICK RESPONSE PLEASE: onboard video?

1999-06-30 Thread Paul Harris
hi, i am looking to buy a new system but I need to know if linux supports the onboard video and sound that comes with the slot 1 boards (this one is Intel). does anyone know out there? please respond before friday! thanks heaps, Paul

Re: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-30 Thread Paul D. Smith
%% [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) writes: cf> On further investigation, .bashrc *is* executing. And I get this cf> output: cf> $ echo $PATH cf> (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games:/home/carlf/bin) cf> . . . so why won't the xterm execute files in /home/carlf/bin unles

unable to load nls charset cp437

1999-06-30 Thread Carsten
Hi, I try to install debian 2.0 linux to my 386-PC, 4MByte RAM. First at all I start with the lowmem-disk-image and create 3 hd-partitions 16MB swap (82) 3MBtempRoot (81) 181root (83) After that, I activate the swap space (according the install menu) when activating the temporary root

Re: ppp problem

1999-06-30 Thread John Hasler
Ed Cogburn writes: > Have you checked the permissions on the directories leading up to > the file 'green', ie., etc, ppp, and peers. /etc/ppp in particular. Due to a bug in the ppp package it is root:root instead of root:dip. You will also need to fix this in /etc/suid.conf or suidregister will

Re: Modem Trouble - strange stuff

1999-06-30 Thread John Hasler
Paul Miller writes: > I have opened Minicom, and I get the NO CARRIER response as soon as it > opens. This would be in response to the initialization string that > Minicom uses. I can then succesfully send any AT commands after that. Replaces 'OK' with 'OK-AT-OK' . This tells chat to expect 'OK',

Re: xaw & xaw-wrapper

1999-06-30 Thread Shao Zhang
I was using the newest version in potato... I then downgraded to 0.23 in slink. After update-xaw-wrappers, it moved to xgospel.real, an replace xgospel with the perl script you wrote. But when I run it, it does the exactly the same thing. Is there any other way to force the program to use the xaw

Re: xroastcd fails to verify

1999-06-30 Thread Brian May
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> >OTOH, I have the same CDR with 4.17, and it doesn't work under >> >Linux. I'm quite desperate at this point -- have been trying for 3 >> >months, and no luck -- cdrecord (and cdrdao) both crap out at the very >>

Re: xaw & xaw-wrapper

1999-06-30 Thread Joey Hess
What version of xaw-wrappers do you have? What you did won't work on newer versions. Shao Zhang wrote: > Reply-To: > Hi, > I have a program that only works with the libXaw from xlib6g. But I > also have xaw3dg installed. > > And when I compile the program with -lXaw, it uses the lib

Re: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] Okay, people pointed out to me that .bash_profile isn't *supposed* to execute in an xterm unless a special flag is used. Fine. On further investigation, .bashrc *is* executing. And I get this output: $ echo $PATH (/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/u

xaw & xaw-wrapper

1999-06-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Reply-To: Hi, I have a program that only works with the libXaw from xlib6g. But I also have xaw3dg installed. And when I compile the program with -lXaw, it uses the libXaw from xaw3dg which will then core dump. I have tried the to use xaw-wrapper. I put the foll

Exim Problem (I think....)

1999-06-30 Thread Peter Ludwig
I'm running slink (upgraded to potato), and I seem to be having a minor problem with exim. I cannot receive any email using the system under linux. I am running exim & fetchmail Exim version 3.0-2, fetchmail () Before I upgraded exim, everything worked really well, now (since 3.0-1 actually

Smail queue

1999-06-30 Thread Stefan Baums
Hi all. Running recent potato, using fetchmail to get my mail. When fetchmail has done its job, mail is stuck in smail's input queue (the one you see with mailq) and not immediately forwarded to /var/spool/mail/myname, which is the behaviour I would like in combination with fetchmail. How can I ge

help on debugging

1999-06-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Could someone give me some hint where to start to debug this error... I am compiling some program in potato, it works on slink but core dumps on potato. The errors: ./xgospel: Symbol `smeBSBClassRec' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

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

1999-06-30 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jonathan Guthrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Now, this is getting nonsensical. First, you tell me that the reason that [rant deleted] Why can't you simply use -I/usr/src/linux/include if you need those specific kernel includes. Mike. -- Beware of Programmers who

Re: "Quick" boot from floppy?

1999-06-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: "Quick" boot from floppy? Date: Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 02:44:04PM -0600 In reply to:Rick Macdonald Quoting Rick Macdonald([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > 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

Re: xfree86 3.3.3.x slink apt

1999-06-30 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
Hi, add the following line to /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ftp.netgod.net/ x/ this will source the slink versions of XF86 3.3.3.1 and the SVGA server is the one you need (I'm using a TNT card) HTH, Jon -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 39679408

Re: Uninstalling RPMs?

1999-06-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 07:47:04PM +1000, Revenant wrote: > 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

Re: vim 5.4m BETA packages

1999-06-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Jun 29, 1999 at 01:39:32AM +0200, 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

Re: new hard drive install

1999-06-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 05:27:59PM -0500, Brad wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, charles kaufman wrote: > > > I partitioned the new drive with hda1 as dos, hda2 as linux native, hda3 > > as linux swap. I copied (only) dos c: to hda1, and all of the linux > > to hda2. I altered lilo.conf to reflect the

Re: BEWARE: Exim in potato.

1999-06-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 02:37:54PM -0700, 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 reads the config fine, forks off a child who > tries to bind to a socket but ends up with: > > socket(PF_INET6, SOC

Re: Still i740 problems. :( :(

1999-06-30 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Mon, Jun 28, 1999 at 05:45:33PM +1000, Revenant wrote: > I 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: > X11TransSocketU

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