Re: Double-Image in X

Howard Mann wrote: > > Okay, I've struggled with this for two days, and tried to find > > the answer myself to avoid adding traffic to the list, but no go. > > > > I've just installed Debian for a friend on his Gateway P5-120 > > upgraded to P5-180. It has a 1MB Cirrus 5446 card in it. > > > > Whe

wrong CD!!!

Found a great looking book at the bookstore that had the added bonus of containing a Debian CD so I wouldn't have to spend the next 10 years downloading. Only one problem... it only has platform specific files on it for Wintel boxes. I have a 68K Mac. Now I assume that I can just use a handful o

re: 3c575_cb driver

I have a sony n505ve and purchased the above ethernet card. I've spent more than enough hours trying to get debian to work. It works flawlessly in redhat. I've tried to get slink to recognize eth0. I did upgrade pcmcia-cs to the newest version, and it will recognize eth0, but no network functions w

problems with masquerading default rules

Hi, I have ipmasq installed in my Debian potato GNU/Linux , Pentium III with kernel 2.2.13. I use this box as a ip masquerader, and ipmasq created all the rules for me. Things work fine (i.e. hosts in the inside can see the internet), but for the fact that there are a lot of messages in /var/log

Re: No more nvidia!

As we noted we are doing what we can with the current tnt driver. Remember bwhat happened with the neomagic driver it was closed for a while until RedHat pryed it open? HAve patience, not everyone is as ready to accept open source as you or I are, they take time. We choose to go the route of tryi

Limiting FTP bandwidth

I'm running an FTP server on a 20K/sec PPPoE connection, and I'm experiencing this problem: when someone with a high bandwidth is downloading from my server, my network response time suddenly becomes very, very slow. I was told that using a traffic shaper would help, but the kernel traffic shaper

Re: max processes

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Konrad Mierendorff wrote: mieren >My common sense tells me that that depends on your hardware. dual p2-233 128MB .. nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail In

No more nvidia!

In response to the press release by VA, SGI and NVIDIA and commenting mails on the utah-glx list. No open source drivers resulting from this cooperation!! I'm very disappointed wrt VA Linux Systems. SGI and NVIDIA position is more expected. I've had it. I'm replacing my TNT2 32MB card with a rec

Re: curious Ethernet errors

Thanks to the two respondents. I updated the kernel to 2.2.14, but the problem symtoms simply changed too. So I switched to another card and the problem has stopped. Must have been hardware. Regards, Dean > > > > Hello: > > I have been experiencing curious NIC error messages, none of which

Re: Spell checker which "understands" HTML

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 09:30:35PM +0100, Stephan Engelke wrote: > Hi Joey, > > Joey Hess writes: > > > that ispell is TeX- and nroff-aware (according to the manual), but I > > > have had no luck with HTML. I am running the ispell included in the > > > slink distribution - maybe I just missed a co

Re: S3 Trio3D

erasmo perez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EP> more or less one week ago, i see in this lists the report of a S3 EP> Trio3D video card that refuses to work in SVGA, just accepting VGA EP> EP> and now i face the same problem, is there some way to overcome this EP> failure ? I've had some luck using

Re: weird ppp output

> Robert Marlow wrote: > > I've been getting weird protocol junk on my ppp logs: > > > > > > > this fills my log files in a rediculous manner and lags all internet > > traffic, eventually causing the ppp connection to be killed. has anyone seen > > this before and can tell me what the problem i

Re: hwclock --adjust in slink

You might want to take a look at the Clock Mini-HOWTO, hwclock and adjtimex about how can you try to keep your sys time right even if the machine is not 24/7. > [...] > > > > In any case, there are hw K scripts: > > > > [18:17:27 /tmp]$ ls /etc/rc?.d/*hw* > > > > /etc/rc0.d/K25hwclock.sh /etc/r

Re: apt-get remove gnome-bin problem:

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:00:31AM -0800, Glen S Mehn wrote: > Global Symbol "$username" requires explicit package name at > /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 173 > Global Symbol "$groupname" requires explicit package name at > /usr/sbin/suidunregister line 174 > Global Symbol "$inod

Re: hard disk not recognized

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:44:21AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I just bought a Dell Dimension XPS T600 with a Maxtor 13.6GB hard disk. I > wanted to install Linux so I repartitioned the drive to leave 6GB free. > Windows works fine on its 7GB. The Linux boot disk (I've tried both Debian > and

Re: IBM PS/1 Consultant problem

Actually, it wasn't so much that my system was too small that was causing the problem, but just that it can't boot Linux from the floppy drive. I could have theoretically gotten it to work on the drive I had, but my wife was getting tired of my playing with the Win95 settings on the DOS partit

Re: Advanced hard disk mirroring!

hi onno i'd try something like... - use a bootable cdrom ( rescue disk )... - boot linux with network capability ( use linuxcare' bootable cdrom - business card size - if not use (slackware) root/boot floppy image - or use flash IDE disk to boot each w/s - than

Re: Spell checker which "understands" HTML

Hi Joey, Joey Hess writes: > > that ispell is TeX- and nroff-aware (according to the manual), but I > > have had no luck with HTML. I am running the ispell included in the > > slink distribution - maybe I just missed a command line switch?! > > In potato at least: > > -h The in

vt220 or higher and 8 bit terminal with latin-1

I have problems with this: Conex7.5 on the DOS-side of the null-modem cabel and getty 38400 vt220 in /etc/inittab The problem is that ascii characters in the 160-255 range is displayed alright, but I can't type them from the terminal(emulator). I don't think conex is the problem, but everything wo

Re: max processes

aphro wrote: > > i was wondering what people do for max processes for a webserver, until > recently my system was doing fine with a max of 30 processes, but i added > a new(big) virtual domain which eats up a lot of them, i increased it to > 120 ..how high can i go and still be safe? running linu

Re: Installation problem: how to recognize hard drive?

Hi, first of all you should mention if you use slink or potato. In the former case it is possible that the kernel does not recognize your "new" IDE-interface. You should check the kernel-messages for something refering to the IDE-interface. Anyway you should post as much information as possible!

Re: weird ppp output (fwd)

Robert Marlow wrote: > I've been getting weird protocol junk on my ppp logs: > > > this fills my log files in a rediculous manner and lags all internet > traffic, eventually causing the ppp connection to be killed. has anyone seen > this before and can tell me what the problem is? the ppp conne

vt220 or higher and 8 bit terminal with latin-1

I have problems with this: Conex7.5 on the DOS-side of the null-modem cabel and getty 38400 vt220 in /etc/inittab The problem is that ascii characters in the 160-255 range is displayed alright, but I can't type them from the terminal(emulator). I don't think conex is the problem, but everything wo

tcd

does anyone know if the tcd cd-player has had a name change between the slink and potato distributions? i find the source in slink but not in potato? -just lookin for the latest src. tanks, wawf

S3 Trio3D

hello thanks for reading this email more or less one week ago, i see in this lists the report of a S3 Trio3D video card that refuses to work in SVGA, just accepting VGA and now i face the same problem, is there some way to overcome this failure ? the SuperProbe gives the following result: Firs

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Hi, > > On Wed, 19 Jan, 2000 ? 10:17:54AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote: > > well. AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are > > /bin, /sbin, and /etc. > > > Are you sure you don't need /lib and /dev ? You're right;

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

Hi, On Wed, 19 Jan, 2000 à 10:17:54AM +1100, Peter Ross wrote: > well. AFAIK the only directories that need to be on the / partition are > /bin, /sbin, and /etc. > Are you sure you don't need /lib and /dev ? -- ( >- Laurent PICOULEAU -< ) /~\ [EMA

500meg free partition, how to use?

Hi, All after getting new disk i found that 500meg partition on old disk is free. i'm running mostly potato in workstation regime - not a lot logs and from light to moderate load. what this partitino is good for? i'm thinking about setting it to /var, but is there better choice? maybe /usr/

apt-get remove gnome-bin problem:

OK. Here's the situation. I'm a bit stumped: Debian 2.2, running on a p133 32MB Trying to install some stuff via apt, apt decided to remove gnome-bin. Which is OK with me: I don't really use gnome anyway. Except that it's not trying to remove gnome-bin each time,

hard disk not recognized

I just bought a Dell Dimension XPS T600 with a Maxtor 13.6GB hard disk. I wanted to install Linux so I repartitioned the drive to leave 6GB free. Windows works fine on its 7GB. The Linux boot disk (I've tried both Debian and Red Hat) tells me I don't have a hard drive. I read that the boot partitio

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

Shooting in the dark here, I'd be looking at the ppp log and maybe the compression scheme the modem is using (different init strings), or maybe you just have a really slow ISP... but what do I know, I don't have a tcp/ip 'net connection so have never really played with ppp stuff. later,

Re: Double-Image in X

> Okay, I've struggled with this for two days, and tried to find > the answer myself to avoid adding traffic to the list, but no go. > > I've just installed Debian for a friend on his Gateway P5-120 > upgraded to P5-180. It has a 1MB Cirrus 5446 card in it. > > When I start X, I get a double-ima

Re: help with ftp site please

Find out which packages you need and then use apt to install them: apt-get update (get the newest packagest list) apt-get install ... (downloads and installs automatically) Ron On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, dkphoto wrote: > I am trying to download a basic package for the 68K Mac from th

RE: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

You might have a problem with the local_domains setting in /etc/exim.conf. It'll only accept *@mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 6:39 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK? Mark, I have the same problem. My messages eventually freez

Re: X Windows Video

you need Xfree86 3.3.6 to get rage128 to work in debian. you can get it by adding: deb http://www.debian.org/~vincent/ xfree-update main to your /etc/apt/sources.list then run apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade to upgrade your X windows installation, then run XF86Setup to configure it. good luc

B&W vs color, bsd vs linux

Do I understand this correctly? netBSD will boot only in B&W on the 68Kmac, while DebianLinux will boot in color??? Is that correct? David Kachel

Re: help with ftp site please

Quoting dkphoto ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I am trying to download a basic package for the 68K Mac from the Debian > ftp site and could use some help please. > > Files seem to be spread all over with no rhyme or reason. As a result I > can't be sure what I need or where to find it (and I've install

X Windows Video

Warningnew user...terminology may not be completely correct. ;-) I've installed distribution 2.1 that comes with the O'Reily book and have been using it via the bash shell and learning various commands. Now I would like to install X Windows, but I can't quite figure out my video chipset. I h

Re: terminals

Mike Werner wrote: > What you should do is add lines like these - one line for each tty that > you want. For example to add one more tty you would add the line: > 7:23:respawn:/sbin/getty 38400 tty7 > and after a reboot you would have tty's 1 through 7. At least I *think* > you have to reboot - I

weird ppp output (fwd)

I've been getting weird protocol junk on my ppp logs: Jan 20 00:02:18 butler pppd[2071]: 41 41 41 41 41 41 2f 36 55 61 6c 69 6e a6 da d4 2e 68 74 6d 22 3e 20 47 92 15 37 3a 30 74 61 72 67 03 86 7f 48 54 59 09 3a 20 48 57 18 76 f7 6e 20 32 30 30 30 77 38 8e f6 28 81 c9 64 6f 63 75 6d 65 6e 74

Re: ntp socket

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:26:19AM -0600, Tim Thomas wrote: > Can anyone tell me why I am getting this ? > What else would be using that socket ? > > - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - > > Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:00:05 -0600 > From: root (Cron Daemon) > To: root > Subject: Cron <[

Re: Come on lorenzo, pleas stop the madness..

> On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:01:55AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > If somebody help me to configure 'exim', then I will not disturb anybody > > with my e-mails, > > and with my return receipts, because in that case I would use my Linux box, > > with a good > > MUA like MUTT. Are you not rea

IBM PS/1 Consultant problem

Well, I'm pulling out of the mailing list, but I wanted to leave you all with the results of what I discovered after playing around with my settings on my computer and such. I found that no-way-no-how will Linux boot from the floppy drive on my PS/1 Consultant (486 based) computer, but it

Re: severe xfree86 hassles

the problem is not keyboard related it is font related. make sure you have xfonts-base installed. nate On 19 Jan 2000, Steve Winston wrote: xee42 >I continue with xfree86 problems. After downloading and configuring version xee42 >3.3.6, startx fails with what appears to be a keyboard error. xee

Re: severe xfree86 hassles

Looks to me like you've got the fonts missing. The message says that the keyboard error is not fatal to the server. Regards JohnG _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ _/ John Gould _/ _/ Senior Systems Support Engineer _/ _

help with ftp site please

I am trying to download a basic package for the 68K Mac from the Debian ftp site and could use some help please. Files seem to be spread all over with no rhyme or reason. As a result I can't be sure what I need or where to find it (and I've installed Debian once before and BSD once too). There

Re: GRUB problems with Deb 2.0

On 19 Jan 2000, Lars Weber wrote: Hi Lars. > David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB > [...] > > I've heard that older versions of GRUB are having problems with ext2 > file-systems created by recent versions of the e2fsprogs.

Re: Sound from cassete to mp3

Stephan Engelke writes: > > What is the best way of transferring sound stored in cassete to mp3? Can > > this be done without the microphone? > > you should be able to get an adaptor cable of the form "2-Chinch -> > 3.5mm" (whatever this type of plug is called in English :-). These > cables are of

Re: gpm repeating Intellimouse protocol?

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 08:10:02AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Has anyone gotten gpm to repeat in Intellimouse protocol for X? I'm trying > to get my wheel mouse (logitech forst mouse+ serial) to work with wheel > events alongside my USB generic 3-button. > > According to >

gpm repeating Intellimouse protocol?

Has anyone gotten gpm to repeat in Intellimouse protocol for X? I'm trying to get my wheel mouse (logitech forst mouse+ serial) to work with wheel events alongside my USB generic 3-button. According to Zephaniah E. Hul

Double-Image in X

Okay, I've struggled with this for two days, and tried to find the answer myself to avoid adding traffic to the list, but no go. I've just installed Debian for a friend on his Gateway P5-120 upgraded to P5-180. It has a 1MB Cirrus 5446 card in it. When I start X, I get a double-image, one atop th

Help gettin' X to work...

Hi, i recently ran 'apt-get install xf86setup xserver-svga' and installed the svga x server as my default. After configuring it and everything, I tried to run 'startx', but it didn't exist. So then I went into /usr/X11R6/bin/ and ran './startx'. That's where I got the error: X: X: cannot execute b

Re: IP Masq

On 19/1/2000 Timothy C. Phan wrote: Many thanks on the IP masquerading HOWTO. I'll download it and read it. I used to remember that debian has different way to compile the kernel. Is there an HOWTO on Debian kernel compile/install. yes but its not required, get the kernel-package pa

Re: Can't give non-root X access

On 19/1/2000 Guyren G Howe wrote: How do I give access to X from anything other than root? I get an error that the user is not allowed to run X. I realise that this probably involves xauth. But the explanations I can find about how it works might as well be in Greek. They all talk about the na

Re: GRUB problems with Deb 2.0

Hi! David Teague <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A GRUB floppy won't boot my old system which has a 486/66, 16 MB > RAM, VL bus mother board, adaptec 2840 with (now) one 1GB scsi drive > (Bios is enabled on the controller for that drive) and a scsi CD > ROM. Linux 2.0 is on /dev/sda1, swap is on /

Re: potato - where's lp

A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] > Also I thought that there was support for USB in 2.2, but I havn't > found it in the menu config items (yet). I did select prompt for > experimental code. You also need to modify arch/i386/config.in and uncomment the line # sour

severe xfree86 hassles

I continue with xfree86 problems. After downloading and configuring version 3.3.6, startx fails with what appears to be a keyboard error. I use a Microsoft natural keyboard. Any suggestions? HEPppp The messages: System: '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp -w 1 -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11xkb -xkm -m us_mic

Re: potato - where's lp

>devices. Maybe I'm loosing my marbles but I didn't >remember this connection in the 2.0 kernel config. >Also the help calls the parellel device option out for >things like zip drives etc... not printers in general. > Is this connection new in 2.2? Yes, it is new in 2.2. >Also I thought that th

Re: Transparent network bridge+filter?

You have an interesting idea, but it won't work in my case. I have to put this between a pair of Cisco routers running EIGRP. They won't see each other if the router discovery packets (etc.) aren't forwarded by a bridge. I also can't guarantee that the address of the router on one side won't cha

potato - where's lp

I found it. Oops! You have to say yes to parallel device in general setup to get printer support in char devices. Maybe I'm loosing my marbles but I didn't remember this connection in the 2.0 kernel config. Also the help calls the parellel device option out for things like zip drives etc... not

Re: scsi-ide module - FOUND

i found the source in the kernel source package. thanks, Peter Ross wrote: > On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > > > could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in > > binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia, > > > have a look in /l

Re: IP Masq

Hi Ethan, Many thanks on the IP masquerading HOWTO. I'll download it and read it. I used to remember that debian has different way to compile the kernel. Is there an HOWTO on Debian kernel compile/install. Secondly, I looked at all the packages that I've mirror on slink, I saw the b

ntp socket

Can anyone tell me why I am getting this ? What else would be using that socket ? - Forwarded message from Cron Daemon - Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2000 06:00:05 -0600 From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ntpdate tick.usno.navy.mil >> /var/log/timechange X-Cron-En

Re: mutt not y2k compliant???

Quoting Brian May ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ii mutt0.95.3-0.2 Text-based mailreader ... > > Date: Mon, 10 Jan 00 12:59:30 +1100 > > Most programs recognise "00" as the year 2000 (eg Gnus). Not mutt > though - it displays the same entry as: > > 188 * Feb 16 Ger Vloothuis ( 0)

Re: scsi-ide module

i did. also ran modprobe -l, it's not there. -a Peter Ross wrote: > On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hi, > > > > could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in > > binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia, > > > have a look in /lib/module

Re: scsi-ide module

On 19-Jan-2000, Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in > binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia, > have a look in /lib/modules/2.0.36/scsi for ide-scsi.o Pete

scsi-ide module

hi, could someone tell me where the scsi-ide module may be found? either in binary for i386, kernel 2.0.36 or source. tia, -- Aaron Stromas Oracle Corp. "Tick-tick-tick!!!... ja, Pantani is weg" (BRTN commentator, L'Alpe d'Huez, 1995 Tour de France) begin:vcard n:Stromas

Re: Come on lorenzo, pleas stop the madness..

On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:01:55AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am very sorry for my return receipt, but if I could disable it I would do > it. I don't really believe that. Please contact your system administrator, look at the options, or unsubscribe from debian user and subscribe with an

problems setting horde

Hi, I'm having troubles setting horde (from frozen). The postinst script gives me a error I could not solve. I even downgrade to pre6 version w/o success. Running dpkg --pending --configure gives: - Setting up horde (1.2.0.pre6-1.2) ... dpkg: error processing horde (-

Re: Realtek 8139 support ?

On Wed, 19 Jan 2000, Johan De Messemaeker wrote: > Hi, yesterday, I installed Debian (frozen dist). I tried to compile my own > kernel 2.2.5. > > However, i seems that there are no Realtek 8139-network drivers installed. > How comes ? > Should i download and install them manually ? > No, it is

Re: Hint: Finding packages with needed files

--- Bruce Sass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 1. I have a USR V90 56k modem. If I let it connect at anything above > > > > 33600, the RX rate drops drastically - to around 1kB/s. Any > > > > suggestions? > > > > But, do you think it will also help with this problem? It also shows up > > wit

Re: Keyboard autorepeat

"Michel Dänzer" wrote: > > --- Ed Cogburn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is, to me, something suspicious that I haven't noticed before. > > The last lines of the text console after starting X now include: > > > > SetKbdSettings - type: 0 rate: 5 delay: 105 snumlk: 0 > >

Re: NEW x problem :/

Hi. Can you try with XF86Setup? - Original Message - From: "Michel Dänzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 10:59 AM Subject: Re: NEW x problem :/ > > > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think I discovered my problem, but another came up.

PRENSA TÉCNICA (Opinion)

Let me introduce myself. My name is Alicia Benavent. I'm staff editor of two spanish magazines about the OS Linux. This magazines are Sólo Linux and Linux Actual wich are published by Prensa Técnica. Prensa Técnica is a spanish editorial that publish magazines, books and fascicles on Computer Scien

Re: help -- UDMA install....

From: Paul McAvoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: help -- UDMA install Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 23:34:38 -0800 A couple of things I would try also: 1) examine the motherboard to find out what type of UDMA support it has. I have an Asus MB with UDMA suppor

Realtek 8139 support ?

Hi, yesterday, I installed Debian (frozen dist). I tried to compile my own kernel 2.2.5. However, i seems that there are no Realtek 8139-network drivers installed. How comes ? Should i download and install them manually ? Thx, Johan

Re: NEW x problem :/

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I think I discovered my problem, but another came up. Here it is: I was > tweaking some of /etc/X11/XF86Config, where it configures the mouse. I > modified /dev/mouse to /dev/ttyS3 (where my mouse is). X failed. Have you set the correct mouse protocol/type in XF86C

Re: fidogate resend

Thanks for the help Brian and Colin, as you can see I`ve still got a lot of learning to do about Linux in general but I really want to get on fidonet. I`ve been given a point but I never realised that the software would be so difficult. Here`s the latest problems; Brian May wrote: > > If it is

Can't give non-root X access

How do I give access to X from anything other than root? I get an error that the user is not allowed to run X. I realise that this probably involves xauth. But the explanations I can find about how it works might as well be in Greek. They all talk about the name of the host, for example. Why shoul

Re: exponential dial PPP

--- Brian May <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "Dave" == Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dave> I'm pretty sure that diald will do this. Send it a 'force' > Dave> command and it will retry failed/dropped connections with > Dave> options for starting and maximum inter

Come on lorenzo, pleas stop the madness..

Hi lorenzo, On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 10:01:50AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Return Receipt > > YourRe: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK? > document:

Re: Several problems

--- "I can. Thank you." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have seen the same problem with the XF86_SVGA server with ATI cards. I > could not switch between X and a virtual console without blanking the > screen, freezing things, and other unpleasantness. > I would suggest using an accelerated server

Re: Spell checker which "understands" HTML

Stephan Engelke Club Céronne" wrote: > its job? Preferably one for which a German dictionary exists. I know > that ispell is TeX- and nroff-aware (according to the manual), but I > have had no luck with HTML. I am running the ispell included in the > slink distribution - maybe I just missed a co

Re: Is potatoe's exim 3.12-1 OK?

I had similar problems when I didn't use an smtp while sending mail to certain adresses, only I use postfix. My error was: (conversation with columbo.hvu.nl[145.89.50.200] timed out while sending end of data -- message may be sent more than once) However, this turned out to be a router problem, n

Savage4 and Xserver question

Hi!   I have an Eagle S3 Savage4 card. I try the default Svga X server on it, but this X server not support them. I finded on a Net one "handmade" svga X server ( i forget who made it..) It's working now, but it's too slow. The window-moving on the 1024*765 resoution very "staccato". Otherwi

Configuration of Exim

Hi to all! I am not able to send remote e-mails by 'Exim', but only locally. I have got a dial-up Linux Box (Debian 2.1), without a local network, and I wish to deliver e-mails by my ISP's smart host. I used 'eximconfig', but it didn't seem to set a good configuration for my needings. I have cha

Spell checker which "understands" HTML

Hi! is anyone aware of a spellchecker that ignores HTML-tags while doing its job? Preferably one for which a German dictionary exists. I know that ispell is TeX- and nroff-aware (according to the manual), but I have had no luck with HTML. I am running the ispell included in the slink distributio

Re: Sound from cassete to mp3

Hi Antonio, Antonio Rodriguez writes: > What is the best way of transferring sound stored in cassete to mp3? Can > this be done without the microphone? you should be able to get an adaptor cable of the form "2-Chinch -> 3.5mm" (whatever this type of plug is called in English :-). These cables are

apt-get confused, how to repair?

Hello all, I seem to have a confused apt-get: vendredi:~# apt-get check Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: debconf: Depends: fileutils (>= 4.0-5) b

Re: New drive ready to partition. Just what some recommendations and suggestions.

Hmmm, does incremental backups sound good in this situation? Anyone? Regards, Onno At 07:44 PM 1/18/00 +, John Gay wrote: > > >I've got some good suggestions, and apparently raised a few questions as well. >Let me outline my reasons for asking and what I hope to do: > >I've got a CD-RW. I pl

Re: Transparent network bridge+filter?

At 02:08 PM 1/18/00 -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote: >Can anything that runs on Linux do reliable network bridging & filtering? >I need a transparent filter that I can drop into an existing network. > >Ipfilter will do the job with Open/NetBSD. It may work on Linux, but >requires kernel 2.0.35 and isn't c

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Howard Mann wrote: > > Howard Mann wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get xfs to start on bootup. > > > > I see the following message on bootup: > > > > Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted > > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON >

Re: xfs will not start

On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 11:41:09PM -0700, Howard Mann wrote: > Howard Mann wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to get xfs to start on bootup. > > > > I see the following message on bootup: > > > > Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted > > start-stop-daemon --st

Re: xfs will not start

Howard Mann wrote: > > Hi, > > I am trying to get xfs to start on bootup. > > I see the following message on bootup: > > Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted > start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON > Clarification : Sorry - the full

xfs will not start

Hi, I am trying to get xfs to start on bootup. I see the following message on bootup: Starting X font server: xfs/etc/rc2.d/S20xfs : line 44 : 282 Aborted start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --pid $PIDFILE --exec $DAEMON ( I haven't noticed this message before) This appeared - I believe - afte

apt/squid errors

Hello, Background: I have apt configured to receive data from my squid proxy server. The data comes over a PPP connection. Anything from 14.4Kbps to 34.4Kbps causes the following problem. I never noticed the problem until I upgraded from the initial slink release of apt to the latest security f

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> "José" == José Luis Gómez Dans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: José> Hi! This is an easy one: what's the easy way to allow mutt José> to send and receive all messages that have ISO 8859 1 out José> without problems? I am writing this message with a couple of José> them: ¿¡ñóáâ.

Re: fidogate resend

> "Paul" == Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: PS I apologize about my previous post. I accidently pushed C-c C-c in xemacs (send) instead of C-c C-t (add address to To: field). Paul> I`ve sidestepped for the present, but now when running Paul> fidonetconfig it says "/usr/sbin/fidogate

Re: fidogate resend

> "Paul" == Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> Please copy to this email address as fetchmail is now down Paul> as well so I`m using Netscape on another email account to my Paul> mailing list subscription. I`ve just tried to install Paul> fidogate and inn, with a lot of e

Re: Problem with Wordperfect8 for Linux

On Mon, Jan 17, 2000 at 08:13:47PM -0600, russell cook wrote: > I have wordperfect running ... sort of. The graphics icons are garbled. > I have XPM4.7 version 3.4k-5. I don not not have XPM4.7-alt dev > installed > because I have a conflict. Can someone tell me wahat packages I must have

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