On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 02:46:45PM +, Julian S. Taylor wrote:
Pollywog wrote:
On 14-Aug-99 Julian S. Taylor wrote:
Salutations,
I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I don't have
time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the official Debian
release
Hi!
Where can I find information on the format of the files that are output by
setfont (-O, -o, -om and -ou options)?
I want to make a Latin-1 font of my VGA card's built-in font, but is lacking
information on how to do it.
--
\\//
peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/
- and God said:
Hi all,
I'm almost all the way done porting a large software project to Linux.
Everything compiles beautifully etc, but I get a linking error. I'm not
complaining, I used to get over 1000 lines of linking errors, now I just
get the one. But I'm having a heck of a time understanding it. This is
Writing right to left in hebrew.
currently only vim has it
On 12 Aug 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just installed xemacs21. It's still running together with xemacs20
untill it will work fine. (I Installed it because I hoped for some new
mule support
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 02:17:06PM +, Julian S. Taylor wrote:
| ~+/usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute ...
|
| When I use cu on Debian I get the messagepppd permission denied. I can
| use wvdial to my ISP but I can't get into Sun now that I've switched to
| Debian. What am I doing wrong?
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On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote:
I'm building another machine for someone and I need to know which
sound cards give good perfomance under Linux.
I'm thrilled with my new Trident 4D Wave based card. The one I got cost
me about $19 including
If /dev/hda5 doesn't exist anymore, then you need to remove the line
referencing it in /etc/fstab. See the manuals on fstab and mount for
more info.
--
Eric G. Miller
Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 04:55:12PM -0700, Eric G . Miller wrote:
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 02:17:06PM +, Julian S. Taylor wrote:
| ~+/usr/sbin/pppd defaultroute ...
|
| When I use cu on Debian I get the messagepppd permission denied. I can
| use wvdial to my ISP but I can't get into
Hi,
Is it possible to invoke the Debian setup scripts after the initial
installation has been completed? Specifically I am interested in the network
setup scripts where it asks for you hostname, IP address, gateway, etc.
I realize it can all be reconfigured by editing /etc/hosts,
..I'm confused. Netscape is telling me that I'm missing
something I'm pretty sure I've got.
cheshire:/usr/local/netscape# ./netscape./netscape: can't
load library 'libXt.so.6'cheshire:/usr/local/netscape# find / -name
libXt.so.6/usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
Would someone be kind enough to
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 08:41:21AM +0300, virtanen wrote:
1) Do you get somewhere deb-package for xemacs21? If so, where?
They are in potato (unstable) right now, they've been there for a
month or so now... If you're running slink (stable) then you'll have
to build it from the debianized
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 12:07:18AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote:
I just installed xemacs21. It's still running together with xemacs20
untill it will work fine. (I Installed it because I hoped for some new
mule support which apperently isn't present yet).
Anyway, It doesn't recognise any
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Cheshire wrote:
..I'm confused. Netscape is telling me that I'm missing something I'm
pretty sure I've got.
cheshire:/usr/local/netscape# ./netscape
./netscape: can't load library 'libXt.so.6'
cheshire:/usr/local/netscape# find / -name libXt.so.6
Is the card above supported?
if so which version of x11 I need.
where can I get mode lines up to 1600x1200
Thanks
Oz Dror
--
NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California
EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux since 8/15/94
PHONE Fax (310) 474-3126
I'm having a problem where my clock seems to jump all over the place.
At the moment I have to set it every start up, when I remember that is.
I have searched the archives and not found anything.
Basically the clock is out by a number of hours, usually in the past. I
don't know if there is a
One possibility is you need a new battery.
--
Eric G. Miller
Powered by the POTATO (http://www.debian.org)!
Ok, I keep getting this error from dselect and it is driving me nuts. Here's
the error:
internal error - no filename at -e line 12, P chunk 13
installation script returned error status 1.
Press RETURN to continue.
Can anyone tell me what this means? Here's what I am doing:
I have a laptop
dpkg -S libXt.so.6 on my machine yields the following:
xlib6g: /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6
xlib6: /usr/lib/libc5-compat/libXt.so.6
Since I'm running the libc5 version of netscape, I had to install the
xlib6 package in order to get the libc5 based version of libXt.so.6. If
you're running the libc5
Call me stupid. I re-installed Win95 on /dev/hda1, of course forgetting
that this would alter the MBR. LILO won't react to any action of Shift,
Ctrl or Alt after the boot beep now, so my Linux system on /dev/hda3 can
not be booted. What do I do to re-install LILO? (Sorry to say I can't find
my
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
Call me stupid.
Nah, i've done some pretty bad stuff in the past too ;)B
I re-installed Win95 on /dev/hda1, of course forgetting that this
would alter the MBR. LILO won't react to any action of Shift, Ctrl or
Alt after the boot beep now, so
| When I use cu on Debian I get the messagepppd permission denied. I can
| use wvdial to my ISP but I can't get into Sun now that I've switched to
| Debian. What am I doing wrong?
It may be you need to add the group dialout. By default
regular users don't have permission to
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 01:18:41PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote:
I'm having a problem where my clock seems to jump all over the place.
At the moment I have to set it every start up, when I remember that is.
I have searched the archives and not found anything.
Basically the clock is out by a
Get a boot disk. Then you can simply run lilo as root and that will restore
your
MBR. If you need more specific instructions just ask.
-Aaron Solochek
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hans van den Boogert wrote:
Call me stupid. I re-installed Win95 on /dev/hda1, of course forgetting
that this would
Brad wrote:
snip
At worst, download the Debian installation disk image. You don't have to
reinstall, just choose Mount an existing root partition, Activate an
existing swap partition, and Make bootable from the menu and things
_should_ work.
This is the catch... I've used the debian disk
Aaron Solochek wrote:
Get a boot disk. Then you can simply run lilo as root and that will rest
ore your
MBR. If you need more specific instructions just ask.
Or download loadlin.exe and boot Linux from inside Windows. Again, you can
then run lilo.
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Vote against SPAM:
I have been trying all day to get XFree86 3.3.2.3 running, but have simply
had no luck getting any resolution other than 320x200. I would like it to
do 800x600 with 256 (or more) colors. The video card does that just fine
under Windows95, so I know the hardware is capable, although maybe not
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 07:05:11PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
Ok, is there anyone actually using netscape 4.61 as provided in potato?
I only get a segfault.
If you are able to use it, what combination of
kernel/libc/what-the-hell do you have ?
pf,
I've been using the
I want to start out by thanking everyone who ever replies to me. You
guys rule. And I have another minor problem ailing me.
On launching netscape I get:
bash-2.02$ /usr/local/netscape/./netscape:
'/usr/local/netscape/./plugins/cpPack1.jar.old' is not an ELF file
ERROR: Not an ELF file
Cant load
Patrick Olson wrote:
[snip--]
The video card is a 2MB Diamond Viper Pro Video, and is a PCI card. I
have been trying to use the SVGA X server.
Um, I've got only good to say for the xserver that nvidia has released,
which your video card might like. I hear diamond viper
I tried using Netscape Messenger to read News and have
run into a very annoying problem :
Netscape Messenger does not seem to be able to save/remember
column header widths. When initially reading a newsgroup, the
Messenger window is sized really, really wide. The newsgroup name,
# of unread
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 07:05:07AM +, Cheshire wrote:
| bash-2.02$ /usr/local/netscape/./netscape:
| '/usr/local/netscape/./plugins/cpPack1.jar.old' is not an ELF file
| ERROR: Not an ELF file
| Cant load plugin /usr/local/netscape/./plugins/cpPack1.jar.old. Ignored.
Looks like you have
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
Ok, is there anyone actually using netscape 4.61 as provided in potato?
I only get a segfault.
If you are able to use it, what combination of
kernel/libc/what-the-hell do you have ?
well, my config looks like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] gerdk bug -p communicator
:- Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That's the one that was diverted by another cc package. Move it
back so you don't mess up
your system on upgrades, etc. and do this:
dpkg-divert --list /usr/bin/gcc and see what package diverted it.
it was caused by gnat
now
:- Bob == Bob Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been using the navigator-smotif-4.61 package for a while now, with
very few problems. Occasionally it has died, but it has been as stable
as other versions.
On my setup it just crashes before creating the main window. It
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 07:05:11PM +0200, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
Ok, is there anyone actually using netscape 4.61 as provided in potato?
I only get a segfault.
If you are able to use it, what combination of
kernel/libc/what-the-hell do you have ?
It runs ok here now. I run kernel 2.2.10.
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
Ok, is there anyone actually using netscape 4.61 as provided in potato?
I only get a segfault.
If you are able to use it, what combination of
kernel/libc/what-the-hell do you have ?
I've removed all manually-installed plugins. Problem
Next week I'm going to buy a notebook (Acer Travelmate 510 series). If you
could choose, what would you rather buy
1) configuration with a Celeron 366,
2) configuration with a Pentium II 333.
The price difference is about US$155, for which I could
- upgrade from 32 to 64 MB RAM
- get
The non-solution: I got into my system with a boot disk, ran LILO which
returned with Added Linux * then it still didn't react to any Shift, Alt
or Ctrl key. While I was in my system I read the LILO doc which talked
about installing LILO, then activating the Linux partition, then rebooting.
Go for the cheapest option, definately (I'm assuming that's the
Celeron-option). And
get as much RAM as possible.
Just my 2c.
Sean
Hans van den Boogert wrote:
Next week I'm going to buy a notebook (Acer Travelmate 510 series). If you
could choose, what would you rather buy
1)
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 06:33:57PM +0800, Hans van den Boogert wrote:
| But while I'm at it: I would like for LILO to come up at boot without
| having to wait for the beep and a slam on either Shift, Alt or Ctrl. There
| was something in the LILO doc, but has anyone experience with such a setup
|
I've read through PPP-HOwto, and it doesn't
solve my problem. I'm using Slink and ppp,
version 2.3.5 . The following is part of
/var/log/ppp.log :
Aug 12 17:09:03 finis pppd[148]: pppd 2.3.5 started by root, uid 0
Aug 12 17:09:04 finis chat[149]: abort on (BUSY)
Aug 12 17:09:04 finis
I agree about getting more ram. 96 or 128 would be nice but it might shorten
your battery a tad. Cel 366 and PII 333 shouldn't be much diffrence for general
use, unless you need that 256K (not sure) on-die cache on PII.
BTW, I'm interested in Acer Travelmate 300 series. They look nice.
Chanop
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 02:23:34PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
I just tried it ththe the same line in my sources.list ie
deb http://security.debian.org/ stable updates
[it works]
Maybe it was having a bad day when you tried it?
Yeah, I was having a really bad day I guess.
Now it is solved.
When i am about to install Debian.
I have 8 GB, so i choose to install the whole package.
When i start, i´m asked to insert DISC 2.It installs
And it asks me to insert DISC 1. When i insert it, it says:
I need Debian 1/4, but i´ve found
What do i do?
Hi all,
Just a quick question.
I would like to get a complete gnome install (and windomaker).
I have some gnome stuff already installed but I don't really know what
and in what state it is in. I also have windowmaker(GNOME) installed.
So where do I find out what apt-get packages I should get ?
Hello all,
I have Umax 1220S SCSI scanner. Can I use it under linux and how? I
know, that SANE supports my scanner. I use SCSI adapter that came
with scanner. Does Linux suppports this adapter?
Help me!
Bye,
Tadas mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Debian Network Setup Scripts
Date: Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 09:02:36PM -0400
In reply to:Fraser Campbell
Quoting Fraser Campbell([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi,
Is it possible to invoke the Debian setup scripts after the initial
installation has been completed? Specifically I
Jocke wrote:
Hi all,
Just a quick question.
I would like to get a complete gnome install (and windomaker).
I have some gnome stuff already installed but I don't really know what
and in what state it is in. I also have windowmaker(GNOME) installed.
So where do I find out what apt-get
Hans van den Boogert wrote:
Next week I'm going to buy a notebook (Acer Travelmate 510 series). If you
could choose, what would you rather buy
1) configuration with a Celeron 366,
2) configuration with a Pentium II 333.
The price difference is about US$155, for which I could
Alexander Stavitsky wrote:
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 01:18:41PM +0930, Matthew Tuck wrote:
I'm having a problem where my clock seems to jump all over the place.
cut snip
It's not a hardware
fault because I can set it under Windows and it will stay correct. It
seems every time I boot
Jack Lee writes:
I've read through PPP-HOwto, and it doesn't solve my problem.
The PPP-HOWTO's generally only increase confusion.
Aug 12 17:10:45 finis pppd[148]: Receive serial link is not 8-bit clean:
Aug 12 17:10:45 finis pppd[148]: Problem: all had bit 7 set to 0
Your chat script ran to
I belive there is some precompiled binaries for i386 residing in potato an
slink, the potato ones being the most recent. According to the doc you
have to have sound support choosen in the kernel, and then after that
compile the modules.
/nisse
On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Eric G . Miller wrote:
Is
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 07:26:51AM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Aaron Solochek wrote:
Get a boot disk. Then you can simply run lilo as root and that will
rest
ore your
MBR. If you need more specific instructions just ask.
Or download loadlin.exe and boot Linux from inside
Patrick,
You can find documentation at http://www.cc.gatech.edu/linux/LDP/. Check
out the Installation and Getting Started Guide, and the X HOW-TOs.
Ernest Johanson
Web Systems Administrator
Fuller Theological Seminary
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote:
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 23:34:51
Christian Kruse wrote:
When i am about to install Debian.
I have 8 GB, so i choose to install the whole package.
When i start, i´m asked to insert DISC 2.It installs
And it asks me to insert DISC 1. When i insert it, it says:
I need Debian 1/4, but i´ve found
What do i do?
I
I'd like to write data incrementally to a CD. In particular I'd like
to be able to write some stuff, wait a few hours, then write some more
and so on. At the end of the day the CD written must be readable on
normal machines, so it's desirable that the data appear as an ISO-9660
filesystem or
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Hi,
On Sat, Aug 14, 1999 at 07:20:54PM -0700, Oz Dror wrote:
Is the card above supported?
if so which version of x11 I need.
Yes, it's supported, I am using it wight now!
Support starts with the XFree 3.3.3.1 SVGA-server I believe. If you're using
Slink you will need to uprade your
I'm almost there... Almost running x windows...
But x-windows drops out from initializing giving me an error indicating that
there is no mouse. And sure enough the file it was looking for, /dev/mouse, is
not there! I've been looking for some way to create or install a mouse. I
must be
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 05:56:48PM +0200, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
|
| I belive there is some precompiled binaries for i386 residing in potato an
| slink, the potato ones being the most recent. According to the doc you
| have to have sound support choosen in the kernel, and then after that
|
run xf86config...in there, configure your mouse as a standard ps/2
device...that should be all you need.
Colin Winters
Wendell Buckner wrote:
I'm almost there... Almost running x windows... But
x-windows drops out from initializing giving me an error
indicating that there is no mouse. And sure enough the file
it was looking for, /dev/mouse, is not there! I've been
looking for some way to create or install
Chances are good that your mouse is a PS/2 style, and the device X
should look for is /dev/psaux. You can either run XF86Config and
change the setting to look for /dev/psaux or you can create a symlink by
running ln -s /dev/psaux /dev/mouse as root. If that doesn't work,
then you need a different
Well the graphically interface is nice(I've been dealing with just console
up to now), but it's not solving my problem (thanks anyway). I go through
the configuration process, save it and it tells me that my server is now
running. It then exits me to the console prompt. I run startx and it it
Eric G . Miller egm2@jps.net writes:
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 05:56:48PM +0200, Nils-Erik Svangård wrote:
Yes, but the modules do not compile :-(!
--
unfortunately you need a newer version of alsa in order to be able to
compile with gcc 2.95 (bugs in the alsa code). 0.4.0 was released
I started the XDM.
Every time i start my linux xdm is always started.
How can i do to disable this.
Please reply at this email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello!
You can disable XDM by uninstalling the XDM package in DSELECT.
Kind Regards,
Stephan Hachinger
I downloaded a xview package and i received some .deb files
How can i install these package under my debian linux ?
Please reply at this email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Sun 09:28PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started the XDM.
Every time i start my linux xdm is always started.
How can i do to disable this.
This may not be the best way to accomplish what you want, but it
worked for me. I simply created a directory in /root called
init.d. I then moved xdm
is there any plan to provide i586 optimized binaries in the future?
I've noticed the reason why my drive doesn't power
down into standby like it does with Redhat is because of the update demon called
by etc/init.d/single which flushes the buffers every 5 seconds and seems to
access the drive every 30 secs. Is there any alternative to running
update, or is
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 12:44:31PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote:
| This may not be the best way to accomplish what you want, but it
| worked for me. I simply created a directory in /root called
| init.d. I then moved xdm to it. No more xdm at startup. I've
| moved other scripts there too. Things like
Just a guess: they are looking for the Berkeley dbm packages. In think
it is the package libdbm1-altdev in the section under oldlibs.
king lee
On Sat, 14 Aug 1999, Oliver wrote:
Hi,
I tried to compile the fastcgi module for apache but the linker can't found
the library(?) ldbm. Please
Trying to install XEmacs21 for my wife, got the following error:
WARNING:
Couldn't find an obvious default for the root of the
XEmacs hierarchy.
WARNING:
Couldn't find obvious defaults for:
doc-directory
data-directory
exec-directory
Perhaps some directories don't exist, or the XEmacs executable,
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999 18:22:57 +0200, Dennis Schoen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You could also try fdisk /mbr on windows, its not documented but
sometimes it can restore your old mbr
Actually, what this does is rewrite the standard MS-DOS MBR software
to the MBR (without altering the partition
Hi!
A recent samba update (in potato) rendered all my shares non-functional. For
some reason, no-one can mount anything, not even using the correct
passwords, and if I try to browse my computer (from a Windows machine), it
claims that I have to enter a password for \\computername\IPC$
I've tried
Hi all,
I am trying to start mutt and 1 rxvt shell when
a specific user logs into X.
I tried to put
#! /bin/bash
#
exec mutt
exec rxvt
in bit .xinitrc and .xsession but nothing really happens.
How do I execute these commands at startup ?
Best regards
Joakim
Leave off the exec part.
For instance, in ~/.xsession
#!/bin/bash
rxvt # plain rxterm
rxvt -e mutt # rxvt with mutt running inside of it
exec fvwm2 # exec window manager as last item
Make sure ~/.xsession is executable (chmod 700 ~/.xsession).
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 01:18:44PM
all,
I am trying to start mutt and 1 rxvt shell when
a specific user logs into X.
I tried to put
#! /bin/bash
#
exec mutt
exec rxvt
in bit .xinitrc and .xsession but nothing really happens.
How do I execute these commands at startup ?
You don't want to exec the commands, just
I am trying to start mutt and 1 rxvt shell when
a specific user logs into X.
I tried to put
#! /bin/bash
#
exec mutt
exec rxvt
in bit .xinitrc and .xsession but nothing really happens.
How do I execute these commands at startup ?
You don't want to exec the
| OK I am running xwm. Can that mess things up ?
|
| I put my lines in .xsession and included
| exec windowmaker
| as the last line.
|
| If I log in from xwm with no change as wm
| I just bounce right back out to xwm login again.
| And if I choose a wm in xwm my commands wont
| be executed.
|
I have three identical new thin clients with as identical a set-up as i
can manage to create -- and one shows this problem. It's particularly
annoying as i had the system set to reboot at a certain time every day
(mainly to clean up any flakiness from Netscape) -- and the system
would set itself
I've been playing around with the 2.2.11 kernel, configuring my sound,
and I compiled successfully a couple times. Except the second bzImage
froze with weird memory errors when I tried to boot it, which in itself
seemed strange to me. So I believe I've got the settings I need now for
my sound and
I just bought QUE's Special Edition Using Linux and there is no mention
of dpkg in its index or table of contents. Bummer...
I've typed 'dpkg --help' and still don't understand what I need to input so
that apache installs.
I've installed the admin package by running boot.bat and following the
The best way to start or stop xdm (and some other services as well)
is with the help of the scripts found in /etc/init.d
Execute (as root of course :-)
/etc/init.d/xdm stop
to stop a runing xdm (/etc/init.d/xdm start to start the service
again). There are other options as well (restart for
On Sun, Aug 15, 1999 at 02:47:37PM -0700, André Bell wrote:
I just bought QUE's Special Edition Using Linux and there is no mention
of dpkg in its index or table of contents. Bummer...
dpkg is used by Debian and a few other Debian-derived distributions.
Pretty much everyone else except
OK I am running xwm. Can that mess things up ?
I put my lines in .xsession and included
exec windowmaker
as the last line.
You don't want that . That puts windowmaker in the background, and
you don't want that.
If I log in from xwm with no change as wm
I just bounce right back out to
Several people recommend something like the following:
/etc/rc?.d contains only softlinks to the /etc/init.d. You should find
there a link called S99xdm. Remove it, and your debian system should by
default boot without starting the xdm. If you later prefer too use the
xdm, you only have to
On Sun, 15 Aug 1999, Mark Brown wrote:
You could use apt - the console front end allows you to say apt-get
install apache to install Apache and all its dependancies. Within
dselect, the fastest way to find a package is to do a search for it.
Hit '/' and enter the name of the package.
Don't
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