GNU ICQ server

1999-08-19 Thread Pollywog
This GNU ICQ server is alpha, but it works. I tried it. http://www4.ncsu.edu/~cbbettin/gicqd/

Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-19 Thread Ralph Winslow
Jens Ritter wrote: Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just got a new HD and tried to format it using my Debian 1.0 Installation Boot Emergency disk set. I made the disk primary and unplugged my current 2.1Mb drive and booted the first disk and partitioned using the second

Re: Booting problems!

1999-08-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Nathan Duehr wrote: Make sure you try the Tecra disk images I've read it and tried it. But thats a 'no go' Any other suggestions.? If I recall, your problem is that you cannot get past 'loading root.bin' -- or was it 'loading linux'. I would suggest

Re: modem

1999-08-19 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
get pcmcia source and compile then intsall with your new kernel. pcmcia modules usually need to be recompiled when you have new kernel (if you did not set ver for modules in kernel) Chanop On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 04:48:54PM -0500, Craig Hancock wrote: Hello all I ahve a problem I just

Re: confusing X problem

1999-08-19 Thread Patrick Olson
On 18 Aug 1999, Colin Marquardt wrote: I would first get rid of xdm, then run I'll remove the package for now. X -probeonly 2 my_x-probe.log Console screwed up vertically when command prompt returned, as usual. Monitor power light goes dim when I just run X. As always, XF86Config

Re: how to format mySeagate ST33210A

1999-08-19 Thread Patrick Olson
Jumping in the middle here, so pardon me if I'm way off. Is your Seagate ST33210A an IDE drive? On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Ralph Winslow wrote: What do you mean by using the second? I mean the second, Ramdisk, diskette. You mean the disk it asks for after you boot the 'rescue disk, right? I

keymap help: how to use a real Meta key?

1999-08-19 Thread markzimm
I just got a new Happy Hacking keyboard with the escape and control keys in the right place and a real Meta key instead of the windows key. However, the default key map doesn't make use of the meta key; it is using an 'alt is meta' binding. I would like to set it up so that the Alt key is Alt and

Setting up PLIP

1999-08-19 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I have this old notebook (no NIC or CD-ROM drive) that I'd like to install Debian on. A floppy install is out of the question, and I don't have a dial-up account either, so a modem-install is a no-go too. So I was perusing the various articles on the LG homepage, and I find one that

special device /dev/floppy0 does not exist

1999-08-19 Thread Steve Gore
I just tried to mount a floppy for the first time since /dev/MAKEDEV upgrade broke my box awhile back, and I get the message: mount: special device /dev/floppy0 does not exist I've tried /dev/MAKEDEV generic and MAKEFLOPPIES, but /dev/floppy0 still doesn't exist. I'm continuing to read

Re: newbie install problem with CD-ROM mount

1999-08-19 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 10:33:18AM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: I am totally new to linux and debian. I tried to install from CD-ROM but it (a Hi-Val (MITSUMI) FX400) wasn't recognized. Following the Hi, I don't have a MITSUMI, but I have an old Soundblaster CDROM hanging off the sound

Re: Sound programs

1999-08-19 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: Looks like you have enough software to me. Make sure /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to your cdrom device, most likely /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd. And if so, you'll probably have to add yourself to group disk, chown

Re: special device /dev/floppy0 does not exist

1999-08-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
It should be /dev/fd0, not /dev/floppy0 On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:16:30PM -0500, Steve Gore wrote: I just tried to mount a floppy for the first time since /dev/MAKEDEV upgrade broke my box awhile back, and I get the message: mount: special device /dev/floppy0 does not exist I've

Updated slink debs

1999-08-19 Thread Timshel Knoll
Hi, I've read that there are unofficial updated slink debs for X-3.3.3.1, but I can't find them anywhere!!! Can anyone tell me where I can find a list of unofficial slink debs? Please CC me your replies, I'm not subscribed to -user. Thanks, Timshel -- Timshel Knoll [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: special device /dev/floppy0 does not exist

1999-08-19 Thread Steve Gore
It should be /dev/fd0, not /dev/floppy0 I just tried to mount a floppy for the first time since /dev/MAKEDEV upgrade broke my box awhile back, and I get the message: mount: special device /dev/floppy0 does not exist ---end quoted text--- Agreed, but that's the error I get when

egcs version

1999-08-19 Thread Robert Kerr
Can I install the current slink version of egcs (1.1.1) alongside the 1.0.x version? Thanks -- -bob An optimist says the glass is half full, a pessimist says the glass is half-empty. An engineer says the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

Re: Sound programs

1999-08-19 Thread Jocke
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 09:47:18PM -0500, Brad wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: Looks like you have enough software to me. Make sure /dev/cdrom is a symbolic link to your cdrom device, most likely /dev/hdb or /dev/hdd. And if

Vedr: Re: No network?

1999-08-19 Thread faoho
I've tried IFCONFIG: lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1 RX Packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX Packets:51 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

Re: Vedr: Re: No network?

1999-08-19 Thread Alex V. Toropov
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWadrr 00:60:08:31:22:84 inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets 203 errors:0 dropped:0

Re: Vedr: Re: No network?

1999-08-19 Thread Matthew Dalton
Alex V. Toropov wrote: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWadrr 00:60:08:31:22:84 inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets 203

Re: [Re: Vedr: Re: No network?]

1999-08-19 Thread Henning Olsen
Alex V. Toropov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWadrr 00:60:08:31:22:84 inet addr:192.168.1.3 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask 255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING PROMISC MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX

PCI bus error

1999-08-19 Thread Alexander Jankowsky
This message is seen on exiting vga-games, PCI bus error. We only handle type 1 PCI bus at present. This is type 0 Continuing anyway for bug #26241 Is this a problem? Everything seems to be running alright. How would you rectify or tidy this up. Please send your reply to the senders email

Re: Setting up PLIP

1999-08-19 Thread Johan Ur Riise
I got plip to work in accordance with the LG-article. I just had one problem with nfs-filesystem and permissions. On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: Has anyone else taken a look at the LG article, gotten plip to work, or know of any plip resources?

boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread Alexander Jankowsky
How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. Please send your reply to the senders email address, otherwise I'll miss it. ___ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your

OT: A suggestion

1999-08-19 Thread Bernd Stegelmann
Could u please send the questions and replies directly to the list? That would make automatically sorting much easier! Thanx Bernd -- , }\ o ) _.-` `-. Thanx ( ( \`'./ (o)\

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread Steve Lamb
Thursday, August 19, 1999, 1:14:02 AM, Alexander wrote: How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. dmesg from the command prompt. Shift-PGUP/PGDN for console scrolling. -- Steve C. Lamb |

RE: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread Bernd Stegelmann
Alexander Jankowsky wrote on Thursday, August 19, 1999 10:14 AM: -- snip -- How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. -- snip -- Try SHIFT

Re: [boot messages too fast to read.]

1999-08-19 Thread Henning Olsen
Alexander Jankowsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. Use Shift + pgup/pgdown before you logon to see the messages. Henning Olsen

Re: [Re: Vedr: Re: No network?]

1999-08-19 Thread Alex V. Toropov
Yes - the windows-machines can see each other in the windows-network. (Workgroupname Olsen as the domainname at the linux box.) The windows pc's can ping each other, but not the linux. I'm using bnc-cables, and the linux is in the middle. I've tried to change the T's - no effect. The

Tekram 390u2w scsi

1999-08-19 Thread Marcus Johansson
Hi! I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 on my new computer, but after installing the base system and rebooting, it wont boot any linux. Just before it's about to boot, it says LI, nothing more... And it stays like that forever. I have a Tekram DC-390U2W scsi adapter, a IBM U2W 9GB harddisk and

Wie Reply-To Tag in E-Mail einfuegen

1999-08-19 Thread Andreas Tille
Hallo, ich benutze Pine als Mail-Client und frage mich, wie ich ihm beibringen kann, daß er ein Reply-To-Tag einfügt. Da sich meine Mailadresse kürzlich geändert hat, möchte ich bei Mails, die ich noch von der alten Adresse schicke, dieses einfügen. Viele Grüße Andreas.

apt-0.3.10slink11.deb

1999-08-19 Thread Robert Varga
Where can I find apt-0.3.10slink11.deb ? It was up on proposed-updates and at security.debian.org, but now I can't find it there... although it is still in the packages files. Robert Varga

Re: Tekram 390u2w scsi

1999-08-19 Thread Alvin Oga
hi marcus I'm trying to install Debian 2.1 on my new computer, but after installing the base system and rebooting, it wont boot any linux. Just before it's about to boot, it says LI, nothing more... And it stays like that forever. for reference... see /usr/doc/lilo* easiest way

DHCPcd problems - No valid Server response

1999-08-19 Thread Cwts
Hello, I'm at the end of my wit here... I can't get my Linux box (running slink) to communicate with the DHCP server at my office. Windows 95 no problem. Static IP under Linux used to be no problem. (I updated to kernel 2.2.10 and to the dhcpcd 1.3.x package) Sigh Renald

Re: DHCPcd problems - No valid Server response

1999-08-19 Thread Buter
Used wrong email-address. Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Renald Hello, I'm at the end of my wit here... I can't get my Linux box (running slink) to communicate with the DHCP server at my office. Windows 95 no problem. Static IP under Linux used to be no problem. (I

[OT] One file of Staroffice got lost-please help

1999-08-19 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! I had temporarely RARed my Staroffice, and now one file of the archive got broken. I'd be very happy if someone could please send me this file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (if it's not too big) It's libvcl516li.so or something like that from the staroffice/lib dir. Thanks for any help!

Re: Wie Reply-To Tag in E-Mail einfuegen

1999-08-19 Thread Joerg Friedrich
Hi Andreas! Wrong list :-) Go to Setup/Config, look for Customized-Headers and add 'Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Andreas Tille wrote: Hallo, ich benutze Pine als Mail-Client und frage mich, wie ich ihm beibringen kann, daß er ein Reply-To-Tag einfügt. Da sich

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from unstable?

1999-08-19 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Joe Emenaker wrote: For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without having to wait for the next official release of Debian.

Re: apt-0.3.10slink11.deb

1999-08-19 Thread Remco van de Meent
Robert Varga wrote: Where can I find apt-0.3.10slink11.deb ? It was up on proposed-updates and at security.debian.org, but now I can't find it there... although it is still in the packages files. ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/slink-proposed-updates/ still has it. -Remco

Re: rsync from a cron script [SOLVED]

1999-08-19 Thread Michael Stenner
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 08:39:42AM -0400, Michael Stenner wrote: I am running rsync from a script that is executed by cron. It is intended to mirror work stuff at home. It uses my personal accounts on both ends (different accounts). Sadly, rsync returns the following error (and doesn't

Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
I'm currently running slink on a 2.0.36 kernel, but I want to move to 2.2.x to support the latest version (0.4.0) of the ALSA drivers. (I have Trident 4Dwave-based card.) I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2.

Re: [OT] StarOffice memory usage: 7 processes!

1999-08-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
| It looks to me like what you have is actually one process and seven | *threads*. A thread is essentially the same process running at a | different location, but using the same memory. ps, top, etc. don't know | about threads, so they appear as a seperate process. | | Bottom line: StarOffice

Strange (?) boot-up messages

1999-08-19 Thread Guilherme Soares Zahn
Hi there, here I am, still trying to fine-tune my PC and understand it a bit further... Now, I've been puzzled by some messages I find in the boot sequence and by a particular message I find in the syslog: When I boot the system, as soon as the klogd is started here comes the following

Re: [Re: Vedr: Re: No network?]

1999-08-19 Thread Marc Mongeon
Is this a card with two network ports? Unless I'm mistaken, 10BaseT refers to the RJ-45 (telephone-like) port, while the BNC port should be called 10Base2 or something. You need to change the port using either switch settings on the card, or a software utility that came with the card. My memory

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Raymond, On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:23:51AM -0400, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2. I'd rather not go to potato just yet, so is there a set of instructions for running slink

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Mario Olimpio de Menezes
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2. I'd rather not go to potato just yet, so is there a set of instructions for running slink on 2.2?

Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Stavros
hi, i have two litle problems with xterm. 1) $TERM=xterm-debian is set by default wich is causing me troubles connecting via telnet to other machines. 2) i dont know if it is a xterm or a bash problem but when i start a new xterm the ~/.bashrc isn't being read. thanks.

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Stephan Engelke wrote about Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2 problem. Slink is 2.2 ready. (I did check the kernel readme afterwards an noticed that all packages are current enough.) Not according to http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2 The packages on the

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Mario Olimpio de Menezes wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a list of what needs to be upgraded to move to 2.2. http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/#errata *Just* what I

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi folks, On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:04:37AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: problem. Slink is 2.2 ready. Not according to http://www.debian.org/releases/slink/running-kernel-2.2 OK. I'll guiltily rephrase the answer: I have not encountered any trouble running kernels 2.2.3 and 2.2.9 on a

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Stavros wrote about Xterm hi, i have two litle problems with xterm. 1) $TERM=xterm-debian is set by default wich is causing me troubles connecting via telnet to other machines. See /usr/doc/xterm/README.Debian 2) i dont know if it is a xterm or a bash problem but when i

Re: rsync from a cron script [SOLVED]

1999-08-19 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Mike whenever you see Permission denied it means the calling function lacks the proper ownership to use this funtion. Do some detective work and find out what user(s) can call rsync. I bet it's just root who can do it. Make sure cron is acting for root. Or I am all wet. That happens a

Re: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Hi Raymond. I have kernel 2.2.5 on my slink load and it works just fine. On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: I'm currently running slink on a 2.0.36 kernel, but I want to move to 2.2.x to support the latest version (0.4.0) of the ALSA drivers. (I have Trident 4Dwave-based

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread virtanen
(Now the power problem seems to be solved. (Came back to this damn machine after some rest. My other debian box works well.) The power shut-off seems to be related to that windows-button 'let windows take care of power'...) Now again to the video-card and monitor. The card is as follows:

Unidentified subject!

1999-08-19 Thread Kenneth Scharf
It should be /dev/fd0, not /dev/floppy0 I just tried to mount a floppy for the first time since /dev/MAKEDEV upgrade broke my box awhile back, and I get the message: mount: special device /dev/floppy0 does not exist ---end quoted text--- Agreed, but that's the error I get when

SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread vw
I recently had the same kind of problem (only with a lot crappier hardware). What I did wrong was choosing relatively conservative values for hsync and vsync, which X calculated to give me, yes, 320x200. I then thought, what the heck, i can't use 320x200 for anything anyways; so what have I got to

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
The card is as follows: Matrox MGA-G100 (AGP) PowerDesk On-Board Memory 8MB Board mapping D800 RAMDAC speed 230 MHz And the monitor is: HL 7870S Hyundai 17 1) Does anyone know, which card I should select: a) Mattrox Millenium II b) Mattrox Millenium II AGP c) none of

Re: /dev/mouse: not supported by device -Not solved

1999-08-19 Thread Davide Anchisi
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: /dev/mouse is a symlink (via ln -s) from whatever is your mouse. So if your mouse is on com1 it should look like /dev/mouse - /dev/ttyS0 a ps2 is psaux. The mouse is a Serial Mouse. /dev/mouse i's already: /dev/mouse - /dev/ttyS0 and even trying:

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: The card is as follows: Matrox MGA-G100 (AGP) PowerDesk On-Board Memory 8MB Board mapping D800 RAMDAC speed 230 MHz And the monitor is: HL 7870S Hyundai 17 1) Does anyone know, which card I should select:

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Stavros wrote: hi, i have two litle problems with xterm. 1) $TERM=xterm-debian is set by default wich is causing me troubles connecting via telnet to other machines. Right. Well, you'll just have to change this one. I don't like it either but it wasn't up to us. Some debian policy or other.

fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused

1999-08-19 Thread root
Hello, I'm doing a fresh slink install on a friend's old '486. I've installed fetchmail, but keep getting the error msg: fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed: Connection refused I edited /etc/exim.conf and added 'localhost' and my hostname to 'local_domains=' and restarted exim, but

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from unstable?

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Joe Emenaker wrote: Potato is based on glibc2.1. Slink is glibc2.0... so from what I've read on many other posts here, it's a BadIdea(tm) to try and mix these due to the different glibc dependencies. Errr..not exactly. As long as

apt with smbmount

1999-08-19 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I'm installing slink on a friend's old '486, with a CD rom which is smbmounted from a drive on his win98 box. I can access the .deb files okay, and can do 'dpkg -i file.deb', but 'apt-get install package' is broken because the symlinks on the CD aren't followed. Is there any way to get

Re: Best 2.2.x for Slink?

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 08:43:25AM -0700, tjm wrote: It's time to upgrade. Is there a recommended version of the 2.2.x kernel to use on a slink system for the least amount of problems, or should I just go for the latest that I can find? At this time, stability is more important than

Re: glibc 2.1.2 and slink

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 05:28:26PM +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: Hi! Can I safely compile and install glibc 2.1.2 (and respective dev packages) from potato on slink? Why not just install the glibc 2.1 package from potato instead of building it yourself? -- Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-19 Thread Ryan Kirkpatrick
On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: `Best Power' general comments (http://www.bestpower.com) - manufacturer has `free' Linux software which may be packaged for Debian soon (All I have found in the source are lines like: CheckUPS II BASIC V3.23Copyright (c)1985-99 by

Re: Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Tue, Aug 17, 1999 at 09:12:27AM +0800, A. M. Varon wrote: On Tue, 17 Aug 1999, Bek Oberin wrote: I'm not sure of the proper incantations to run both IceWM (the gnome-compliant version) and Gnome. My instinct was this: /usr/bin/gnome-session exec icewm-gnome But I end up

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: The card is as follows: Matrox MGA-G100 (AGP) PowerDesk On-Board Memory 8MB Board mapping D800 RAMDAC speed 230 MHz This is a FAQ. You need a more recent version of XFree.

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Eric Gillespie, Jr.
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 09:27:27AM -0500, Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *- On 19 Aug, Stavros wrote about Xterm 2) i dont know if it is a xterm or a bash problem but when i start a new xterm the ~/.bashrc isn't being read. .bashrc is only read in a 'login' shell. By default

alsa starts, then disappears; play works, aplay fails

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Boonstra
Hi I have a weird problem where ALSA appears to start, but then remains unavailable. When I try to use aplay, it doesn't work. But when I use play, (through sox) it does. Check this out: mass ~ sudo aplay Aplay: version 0.3.2 by Jaroslav Kysela [EMAIL PROTECTED] Error:

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread vw
You have to resolve the dependency problem first. IIRC, the driver you need is exactly xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 ,the file that was causing you trouble ;-) Good luck Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: virtanen [SMTP:[EMAIL

Re: [Summary] UPS anyone?

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Thanks for the info. The UNIX checkups software you mention is the same that might get packaged for Debian, depending on the license I presume. Even if it didn't get packaged, it would be nice to have the .dsc and .diff.gz files such that one could download checkups, apply the diff and build a

gcc_2.91.1--0pre1

1999-08-19 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Hi! I tried to build gcc_2.91.1--0pre1 and the following error: /usr/src/gcc-2.95.1/src/libobjc/gc.c:37: gc.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/gcc-2.95.1/src/libobjc/gc.c:55: gc_typed.h: No such file or directory make[4]: *** [gc_gc.o] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving

Re: /dev/mouse: not supported by device -Not solved

1999-08-19 Thread vw
Is there any other name than Serial Mouse on the mouse? Are you absolutely positive it's on ttyS0? Just making sure... Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Davide Anchisi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt:19. august 1999 18:14

Re: glibc 2.1.2 and slink

1999-08-19 Thread Alexander Zhuckov
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, Aug 18, 1999 at 05:28:26PM +0400, Alexander Zhuckov wrote: Hi! Can I safely compile and install glibc 2.1.2 (and respective dev packages) from potato on slink? Why not just install the glibc 2.1 package from potato instead of building

Re: SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread virtanen
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to resolve the dependency problem first. IIRC, the driver you need is exactly xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 ,the file that was causing you trouble while doing dpkg -i there is no advice available to see, what kind of packages are needed to solve

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
virtanen wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, virtanen wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Peter S Galbraith wrote: The card is as follows: Matrox MGA-G100 (AGP) PowerDesk On-Board Memory 8MB Board mapping D800 RAMDAC speed 230 MHz This is a FAQ. You need a

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Jim
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Eric Gillespie, Jr. wrote: No, you're thinking of .profile and .bash_profile, which are only read in login shells. True. (Same holds for .bash_login. Note that only one of these is ever read: the first one found, in this order: .bash_profile, .bash_login, .profile.)

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Stavros wrote: hi, i have two litle problems with xterm. 1) $TERM=xterm-debian is set by default wich is causing me troubles connecting via telnet to other machines. Right. Well, you'll just have to change this one. I don't like it either but it wasn't up to

C++ compiling problem

1999-08-19 Thread Robert Kerr
Okay, here's the situation. I'm porting a large project to Linux. Some of the libraries we have to use were compiled with an older version of egcs (I'm pretty sure it was 1.0.3). So, they expect the libraries (specifically libstdc++) that come with that version of egcs. Okay, so I installed the

Re: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread vw
I'm not an expert, and I haven't tried it (-yet) but I gather it is possible to tell dselect that you want to get some stuff from potato. Dselect IMHO is really good at handling depencies... Maybe some of the wiz'es know what the latest Xserver-svga depends on?! Regards :-) Vitux Error is human;

Q: pts? vs ttyp?

1999-08-19 Thread Brendon Baumgartner
I had a problem recently with running out of available ports on a server. I switched to UNIX98 in trying to resolve the problem. So far, I haven't had a problem, but now I notice that some people who access the server connect as pts/? And some connect as ttyp?. All pts connections are made with

Re: boot messages too fast to read.

1999-08-19 Thread jfoltz
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 01:16:48AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Thursday, August 19, 1999, 1:14:02 AM, Alexander wrote: How do you look at all the start up information that scrolls past too quickly to read when the computer is first booted. dmesg from the command prompt.

Re: SV: Configuring a monitor (and video card)?

1999-08-19 Thread Peter S Galbraith
virtanen wrote: On Thu, 19 Aug 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You have to resolve the dependency problem first. IIRC, the driver you need is exactly xserver-svga 3.3.3.1-10 ,the file that was causing you trouble while doing dpkg -i there is no advice available to see, what kind of

Re: Samba and /etc/passwd

1999-08-19 Thread Debian Mail
You can sync them, so that users can use the windows dialog to change the samba and unix password. See the comments im smb.conf about password sync. What windows dialog do you mean? Anyway, I set unix password sync = true and tried to change passwords using smbpasswd. But I always get

HELP: problem with serial ports....

1999-08-19 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello, i have the following problem, i can't acces the serial ports on my portable... support of the serial ports (dump) is compiled in the kernel, setserial gives back the right info, i can connect to the serial port using kermit, but nothing goes through, and after i made an echo to the port or

RE: Moving slink to kernel 2.2

1999-08-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Aug-99 Raymond A. Ingles wrote: I'm currently running slink on a 2.0.36 kernel, but I want to move to 2.2.x to support the latest version (0.4.0) of the ALSA drivers. (I have Trident 4Dwave-based card.) I've done some poking around on the website, but I can't seem to find a list

TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-19 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system doesn't know xterm-debian of course I don't think this was intended, so I guess I must be missing something. Or how do you guys deal with that? Thanks, Andy. --

Searching in the mailing list archive

1999-08-19 Thread Andy Spiegl
Hi! Is there a way to search in the archive of debian-user ? Thanks, Andy. -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://andy.spiegl.de Finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for my PGP key o _ _ _ - __o __o /\_ _ \\o (_)\__/o (_)

No such file

1999-08-19 Thread James Frey
Hola, I have an expect script which won´t run. I checked the libraries needed with ldd ./expect and everything's OK. Expect runs fine outside of the shell script. The script is: #!../expect -f set password [lindex $argv 2] spawn passwd [lindex $argv 1] expect *password: send $password\r

Re: Xterm

1999-08-19 Thread Richard Kaszeta
Peter S Galbraith writes (Re: Xterm ): Changes to files in /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ get wiped out at your next upgrade because they are not designated as conffiles. I don't know if setting this in /etc/X11/Xresources/xterm (which is a conffile) will override the setting in

debian penguin

1999-08-19 Thread F .Kunkel
Hallo halli ! where has the smart debian penguin gone ? the new debian logo dos not seem to have anything in comon whit linux or gnu at all. who did decide to change the logo ? why did he/she/they so ? who has designed the pengui and who the new logo ? by flo! --

Re: [Re: Vedr: Re: No network?]

1999-08-19 Thread Mark Brown
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 12:33:25AM -0700, Henning Olsen wrote: Alex V. Toropov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 Your machine isn't seeing any incoming packets. I'm using bnc-cables, and the linux is in the middle. I've tried to change the

Re: Can I get new, but *not* updated packages from unstable?

1999-08-19 Thread Frankie Fisher
On Thu, Aug 19, 1999 at 08:50:25AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Joe Emenaker wrote: For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and* unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes

Re: TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Andy Spiegl wrote about TERM=xterm-debian and other distributions Hi! Everytime I log into a non Debian system I have to set the TERM variable to xterm or vt100 manually, because the system doesn't know xterm-debian of course I don't think this was intended, so I guess I

Re: Searching in the mailing list archive

1999-08-19 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Aug, Andy Spiegl wrote about Searching in the mailing list archive Hi! Is there a way to search in the archive of debian-user ? http://www.debian.org/List-Archives, it is linked off the main page. -- Brian -

Re: /dev/floppy0 does not exist

1999-08-19 Thread Steve Gore
I think you are mixing up the mount point and the device. /floppy/vfat or /floppy/minux would be the mount point. These directories exist on your root partition. (If they don't the mount will fail!) The device is still /dev/fd0. So to mount the floppy once it is formated the command is

Fonts and Wordperfect 8

1999-08-19 Thread Stephen Pitts
Since several of you on the list seem to be having better luck with WP8 than I am, I'd like to ask a couple of questions: 1. How do you get the included fonts on the CD-ROM to show up in Wordperfect? I've heard rumors of a 'font installer', but I can't seem to find anything and the 'Fonts' menu in

Re: setting up PLIP

1999-08-19 Thread Jim McCloskey
| I got plip to work in accordance with the LG-article. I just had | one problem with nfs-filesystem and permissions. | | On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Mark Wagnon wrote: | | Has anyone else taken a look at the LG article, gotten plip to | work, or know of any plip resources? Me too, and I used the

Re: Gnome+IceWM

1999-08-19 Thread A. M. Varon
On Thu, 19 Aug 1999, Stephen Pitts wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but that changes the window manager for all users, and it doesn't even start the GNOME panel! I know... my fingers are fast at typing ^x from pine... Have not finished my response to it. Anyway, Editing ~/.xsession

CGI Help

1999-08-19 Thread Tom
Hi all (soory if this comes twice), I could use some assistance with tracking down an easy to use cgi lib for C/C++. I've downloaded the cgic stuff but it is a bit too complicated and involved in my opinion for parsing information from html forms (if you know what I mean). Any help would be

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