Re: where is /dev/mouse???

2000-02-18 Thread Ralf Sinoradzki
You have to set the mouse device in /etc/XF86Config. You can do this for example with XF86Setup. Perhaps its /dev/ttyS0 or something like that if you have a serial mouse. If you have a ps/2 mouse you must use /dev/psaux I think and make shure, that your kernel is compiled with support for it. For

Re: reading an random block from a floppy

2000-02-18 Thread Nick Cabatoff
On Feb 18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff generated a > stream of 1s and 0s: > > I'd like to do the equivalent of > > > > dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k skip=1439 > > > > Maybe you can compile a perl code snippet into a static executable. > Hopefully e

Re: reading an random block from a floppy

2000-02-18 Thread dan
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 05:21:25PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > I'd like to do the equivalent of > > dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k skip=1439 > Maybe you can compile a perl code snippet into a static executable. Hopefully execautable will be small, though I doubt it. -- Win

Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Yes - and the CD sometimes worked sometimes not. Lets face it - Windows 98 will always have a head-start on kit designed expressly for dos. The box in question, a 385 DX100 chip with 64 MB would simply curl up its toes and die if I tried NT. Linux at leat got installed, if from floppies and an i

Re: firewall

2000-02-18 Thread Brian Boonstra
> Why don't you take a look at http://www.linuxrouter.org/? I think it > should fit your purpose, and it's based on Debian :) I second the recommendation, but you should know the main website lacks the documentation. See http://linuxrouter.sourceforge.net and http://lrp.c0wz.com for the goo

reading an random block from a floppy

2000-02-18 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I'd like to do the equivalent of dd if=/dev/fd0 bs=1k skip=1439 without having to read through the 1439 blocks in question; that is, to not treat the floppy as a sequential device. This is running out of a floppy boot image (not Debian's, my own) so I don't have perl available, though I do hav

Re: Netscape4.7 composer crashes repeatedly!!

2000-02-18 Thread paul
> I have Nesscape Communicator 4.7 w/128bit encryption installed on a > Potato box. When I try to save any file from composer it crashes--every > time. I used the apt-get netscape4 installer with the downloaded > file.tar.gz in /tmp to install with no problems and no warnings. browser > works fine,

Re: glibc2.1 in chroot() in slink?

2000-02-18 Thread Brad
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 08:21:47AM -0800, aphro wrote: > was thinking about this for a while, would it be possible to install > glibc2.1 in a chroot() enviornment in slink? has anyone tried this? i > got too much stuff customized in my home machine to upgrade it to potato > 99.9% of my important

Using procmail with Exim

2000-02-18 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, I was feeling experimental a couple weeks ago, and decided to try out Redhat. I backed up all my Important files (personal and system config files) to my /home partition. Well during the install, somehow I managed to format my partition that I was to mount /home on (bye bye files :( ). I'v

Re: [*]about download program

2000-02-18 Thread ignotus
Hoi Paul, All! > is there any good download software (something like net vampire) for linux? wget gtm: (a gtk/gnome frontend for wget, it's like go!zilla and other win downloaders, but gtm can't substitute netscape's download, instead you can dragn'drop links to gtm from netscape) dar

Re: Your notice in Internet.

2000-02-18 Thread Lee Elliott
Perpetual e-mail. PK> Can't we filter this particular one out? PK> - Original Message - PK> From: "Zygmunt OrÅowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PK> To: "debian-user" PK> Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 12:44 PM PK> Subject: Your notice in Internet. PK> PK> PK>> If you are interested in clean s

Re: ºô¸ô¶g³ø NO.35 #35DB

2000-02-18 Thread Lee Elliott
Hello :t8t6g3x, On 18-Feb-00, you wrote: :N> * This is an HTML Message ! * :N> In that case I won't read it. Bye, LeeE -- http://www.spatial.freeserve.co.uk ...or something.

How does debian choose MTA?

2000-02-18 Thread Edmund Lau
Hi Everyone, I'm looking for a script or a conf file that controls which MTA the system uses to deliever mail. I'm trying to use qmail on my system so I compiled it from the original source. This works fine for single users and a list, but users' mailing lists fail if it's called from a program.

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2000-02-18 Thread Ralph Mellor

Re: SMP

2000-02-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Sean Johnson wrote: > > > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > > > it's one of two ways Linux can use Intel-based SMP systems (the other is > > > IO-APIC used on PIIs on up, and maybe PPros). > > > > Seems to be on the PPros too > >

Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread David Wright
Quoting Patrick Kirk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [snip] > > > patric >Imagine how I felt as the CD drive that the Debian CD choked on > worked > > choked on - that is - it died on contact with loadlin. Loadlin? That's DOS software isn't it? And Real DOS, not DOSbox. You were running it from a Real DO

Re: afterstep

2000-02-18 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I finally figure what was the problem with unable to click on the xterm icon on the desktop to bring up the xterm. The problem was in the /usr/share/afterstep/wharf where the line that contains the xterm information. It should end with an & intead of the $ which was installed

Re: [*} X Concept

2000-02-18 Thread aphro
On Sat, 19 Feb 2000, maths wrote: debian >hello everybody debian > debian >i know what X server is, and i am using S3. but i feel confuse debian >of the X window manager.someone told me the gonme is not a window debian >manager.but in my opinion it do the same thing as the enlightment. debian >wh

Re: Firewall Routing Question

2000-02-18 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 10:16:19AM -0500, Bill White wrote: : Hi. Sorry to bother you again, but my problem is not fixed. I looked : at the ICMP Masquerade Enabled setting in my kernel, and it appears to : be enabled. : : I think that the problem I am having is: : o I have a firewall machine, wi

Calling LOADLIN from CONFIG.SYS rather than AUTOEXEC

2000-02-18 Thread Stodolsky, Marvin
A simple multiple boot option is described below. Read through to the end. Please send any questions/comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] as I don't track this news-list regularly. The info below has already been forwarded to Chris Fisher for the next update of the LOADLIN HOWTO, wherein a simpler opti

Re: [*} X Concept

2000-02-18 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (maths) wrote: >i know what X server is, and i am using S3. but i feel confuse >of the X window manager.someone told me the gonme is not a window >manager.but in my opinion it do the same thing as the enlightment. Not at all. I use fvwm2, for instance, and I use various GNOME ap

Re: Routing Problem

2000-02-18 Thread Ernest Johanson
It looks to me like you need to set up the slink box to masqeurade for your 192.168.2 network. The machines on the other side of your linux machine have no idea what to do with a source address from your private network. There is a how-to and kernel docs on this. Ernest Johanson Web Systems Admini

Re: Pronounciation of Linux -- curiosity about origin

2000-02-18 Thread t.bedlam
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 12:25:30AM -0500, Daniel Barclay was only escaped alone to tell thee: The Oracle has pondered your question deeply. Your question was: > Since those would suggest only "LIE-nucks" and "LEE-nucks", I still > wonder: Where did "LIH-nucks" come from? See below. >

Re: SMP

2000-02-18 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > > > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, aphro wrote: > > > > > you sure that MB supports dual processors? it seems as if linux doesn't > > > say its a SMP capable MB at all. > > > > Well, the machine

tcgetattr i/o error(5)

2000-02-18 Thread Steve Doerr
Adding a SB awe64 card to Linux disabled (or just moved) my modem. Here's what I did (modem and SB AWE64 are both pnp): ran pnpdump with configure This found the SB card and assigned IRQ5, DMAs 1 & 5 and all the proper IOs (which were uncommented per the AWE documentation/howto) It put my

Re: Kernel Strikes Back... [Was: Re: A Kernel for Sparc Ultra 1?]

2000-02-18 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 02:22:33PM -0200, Luis Campos de Carvalho wrote: > > Hello Ben and List People. > I've followed the steps below, but my kernel exits abnormally with > the message Upgrade to the latest binutils in potato. I would suggest upgrading all of the kernel build pack

[*} X Concept

2000-02-18 Thread maths
hello everybody i know what X server is, and i am using S3. but i feel confuse of the X window manager.someone told me the gonme is not a window manager.but in my opinion it do the same thing as the enlightment. what's the diffrences? many thanks! zhang xiaolei *

Is there a kernel-image-2.2.14 that is compiled with SMP on

2000-02-18 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, I downloaded 'kernel-image-2.2.14.deb' after seeing someone post here. Unfortunately the newly installed kernel doesn't recognize the second processor. Is there another such kernel-image-2.2.14 with SMP on. thanks rajesh

Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
[snip] > patric >Imagine how I felt as the CD drive that the Debian CD choked on worked choked on - that is - it died on contact with loadlin. > patric >flawlessly - creaking 2-speed brute! The cards installed flawlessly on the > patric >same IRQs that failed under Linux. Its a real choker tha

Kernel Strikes Back... [Was: Re: A Kernel for Sparc Ultra 1?]

2000-02-18 Thread Luis Campos de Carvalho
Hello Ben and List People. I've followed the steps below, but my kernel exits abnormally with the message sparc64-linux-gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -m64 -pipe -mno-fpu -mcpu=ultrasparc -

Re: [*]about download program

2000-02-18 Thread Colin Marquardt
* maths <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is there any good download software (something like net vampire) for linux? Don't know what net vampire is, but take a look at Pavuk (.deb in potato), http://www.idata.sk/~ondrej/pavuk/. -- 14. Madcatmachopsychoromantik . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

glibc2.1 in chroot() in slink?

2000-02-18 Thread aphro
was thinking about this for a while, would it be possible to install glibc2.1 in a chroot() enviornment in slink? has anyone tried this? i got too much stuff customized in my home machine to upgrade it to potato 99.9% of my important stuff will break. if anyone has tried this lemme know what you

Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread aphro
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric >Imagine how I felt as the CD drive that the Debian CD choked on worked patric >flawlessly - creaking 2-speed brute! The cards installed flawlessly on the patric >same IRQs that failed under Linux. Its a real choker that these old boxes patric >w

Re: Your notice in Internet.

2000-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Can't we filter this particular one out? - Original Message - From: "Zygmunt Orłowski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 12:44 PM Subject: Your notice in Internet. > If you are interested in clean source of energy - please find : > http://www.nets.p

Re: PCI BIOS problems DEFEAT

2000-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
In the end, I installed 4 different NICs all of which worked but all of which prevented a second card being loaded. After over 10 hours, I decided that this had made the small move from being a challenge to being an obsession. I gave up and put the Win98 CD in to restore it. Imagine how I felt a

Your notice in Internet.

2000-02-18 Thread Zygmunt Orłowski
If you are interested in clean source of energy - please find : http://www.nets.pl/~metozor/metoz and after: http://free.polbox.pl/m/metoz.The " METOZ" machine is a hydraulics device and the description of "METOZ" is destineted mainly for the inquiring mind. You can find there th

Re: Firewall Routing Question

2000-02-18 Thread Bill White
Hi. Sorry to bother you again, but my problem is not fixed. I looked at the ICMP Masquerade Enabled setting in my kernel, and it appears to be enabled. I think that the problem I am having is: o I have a firewall machine, with an interface whose number is 192.168.2.10. o I have machines on the s

Re: using power save and power down features

2000-02-18 Thread Horacio MG
> > 2) For X I have in the Section "Screen" of /etc/X11/XF86Config the lines > > > > StandbyTime 2 > > SuspendTime 3 > > OffTime 4 > > > > You might need other/more configuration if you are using a laptop. Just had a look at my /et

Apt keeps back?

2000-02-18 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I have upgraded my 2.0 box to 2.1 using apt. After some problems all seems to be working well. One silly thing I cannot figure out. If I run an: apt-get -f -s dist-upgrade The output is: Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages have been kept back

Re: SMP

2000-02-18 Thread ferret
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Sean Johnson wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > it's one of two ways Linux can use Intel-based SMP systems (the other is > > IO-APIC used on PIIs on up, and maybe PPros). > > Seems to be on the PPros too > > Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 > Virtual Wire

cant open /usr/lib/libnss1_db.so

2000-02-18 Thread Frere Roy
I have am using "potato" and have been upgrading from time to time various packages. Recently I upgraded to ldso 1.9.11-5 and libc6 2.1.3-2 and since then I keep seeing the following error messages when upgrading certain other packages: cant open /usr/lib/libnss1_db.so (no such file or direct

Re: Unable to Telnet after upgrade 2.0 -> 2.1: Panic!

2000-02-18 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 18:49:36 +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > I have just performed an apt upgrade according to the manual of my > Debian 2.0 box to go to 2.1. This all seemed to work fairly well, except > now I can no longer connect to my box with telnet. To be more exact, I > can connect,

Re: Sendmail issue after upgrade Debain 2.0 -> 2.1

2000-02-18 Thread Erik van der Meulen
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 00:40:43 +0100, Erik van der Meulen wrote: > I have a UUCP mail configuration which has worked fine with sendmail > 8.8.8-20. Now I have upgraded to 8.9.3-3 and did my best to reconfigure. > I receive mail just fine. If I send mail from the console using Mutt it > works fin

Re: Gimp Stable

2000-02-18 Thread Martin Fluch
On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Ioa Petra wrote: > This may be something that is already addressed, if so direct me to the > archives. I did not see it at any rate. My question is this, with a > stable version of Gimp 1.2 getting pretty close is there any chance that > it would be inserted into potato at the

Re: How stable is frozen

2000-02-18 Thread Ron Rademaker
Yes, I think it is, I have been using potato for a while now and I haven't had to deal with any real bugs Ron On Fri, 18 Feb 2000, Blazej Sawionek wrote: > I will reinstall my (until a few days ago `stable' - see my previous mail) > system. > Is `frozen' (potato) mature enough for a person

How stable is frozen

2000-02-18 Thread Blazej Sawionek
I will reinstall my (until a few days ago `stable' - see my previous mail) system. Is `frozen' (potato) mature enough for a person who is not keen on bug hunting? Blazej

After hacking procedure

2000-02-18 Thread Blazej Sawionek
Apparently I was hacked (via nfsd) so I plan to reinstall the whole system. Is it safe to leave the rest as is or do I have to do something more than just clean the disk with `rm'? I mean all the boot records, master boot records, LILO's and so on and so forth. Blazej

Network UPS Tools (nut).

2000-02-18 Thread Shaul Karl
1) I believe there was not a while ago an intent to package message about the nut. I am not being able to find it in the mailing list archive. Any pointer/hint? 2) Can someone compare it to other UPS tools? -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] An elephant is a

Re: Printing problems!

2000-02-18 Thread Juris Valdmanis
Only very large printfiles (~60Mb) from PC's didn't print! -- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: Juris Valdmanis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: Printing problems! >Date: Fri, Feb 18, 2000, 2:55 PM > > >> First I used TCP/IP to connect to the printer, but there was a problem >> with postscri

Re: What's the difference between kernel-image-2.2.14-ide and kernel-image-2.2.14?

2000-02-18 Thread Shaul Karl
> > > From: Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Subject: Re: What's the difference between kernel-image-2.2.14-ide and > > kernel-image-2.2.14? > > The descriptions of those packages in /var/lib/dpkg/available are identical. > > There are some IDE-related kernel patches; that -ide kernel

Re: Printing problems!

2000-02-18 Thread webmaster
> Hi everyone! > Our company is a small publishing house and we got some troubles with > printing on our HP LaserJet 5MP. We got Linux box acting as print > spooler for WinPC and MACs and HP LaserJet 5MP connected to network > with external Jet Direct EX PLUS card. We are using Netatalk > 1.4b2+as

Re: balsa 0.6.0-1 crash

2000-02-18 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, > When balsa runs by non root user, it crashes with segmentation fault > this does not happen when root runs balsa. > > I have the latest potato packages. I had what sounds like the same problem. Did you have an earlier version of balsa installed before this? I found that by removing the o

Re: Printing problems!

2000-02-18 Thread webmaster
> First I used TCP/IP to connect to the printer, but there was a problem > with postscript containing binary data. They never came out. > After that I start using AppleTalk (pap) to connect to the printer, > but we still getting some errors and lost printouts. Do you have problems with printouts f

Printing problems!

2000-02-18 Thread Juris Valdmanis
Title: Printing problems! Hi everyone! Our company is a small publishing house and we got some troubles with printing on our HP LaserJet 5MP. We got Linux box acting as print spooler for WinPC and MACs and HP LaserJet 5MP connected to network with external Jet Direct EX PLUS card. We are using

mail on ipmasq/dynamic dailup (solution)

2000-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
a long while back i posted a query about how to get mail delivery (with postfix) working on a ipmasq lan with the gateway being on a dialup, dynamic ppp connection to the internet. for the benifit of the list archives here is the solution (thanks to Allan Wind for the advice): it pretty much boil

Re: using power save and power down features

2000-02-18 Thread Peter Ross
On 16-Feb-2000, Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > When using windows my computer move the screen automaticly to standby mode > > to save power after a certain time ( a bit after the screen save starts), > > and when I shut down it turns the computer of automaticly. > > Is it posible to perf

Gimp Stable

2000-02-18 Thread Ioa Petra
This may be something that is already addressed, if so direct me to the archives. I did not see it at any rate. My question is this, with a stable version of Gimp 1.2 getting pretty close is there any chance that it would be inserted into potato at the last minute despite the freeze? The reason I w

Re: exim and root mail

2000-02-18 Thread Ethan Benson
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 11:53:10AM +0100, Ruprecht Jaeschke wrote: > Hi! > > I have some problem with Exim sending Mail to root. It looks like some > permission problem but can't figure out why. Below is a full transcript of a > mailsession to root. Maybe someone has an idea? root should not get

Re: /etc/adjtime does what?

2000-02-18 Thread Shaul Karl
> I can't find a reference to it anywhere, and since it comes with > base-files it's unclear what program uses it. I'm just curious. > [13:25:18 /tmp]$ dpkg -S hwclock util-linux: /usr/doc/util-linux/README.Debian.hwclock.gz util-linux: /sbin/hwclock util-linux: /usr/man/man8/hwclock.8.gz util-l

exim and root mail

2000-02-18 Thread Ruprecht Jaeschke
Hi! I have some problem with Exim sending Mail to root. It looks like some permission problem but can't figure out why. Below is a full transcript of a mailsession to root. Maybe someone has an idea? debug >>Final headers: P Received: from ivv6t2.uni-muenster.de ([128.176.133.220])

Re: Recording cd's with cdrecord or xcdroast

2000-02-18 Thread Radim Gelner
I'm using cdrdao-1.1.3 with Philips IDE writer running in SCSI compatible mode (all information on this subject in CDWriting-HOWTO) and I'm really satisfied with its performance. Reads and writes audio, data, bootable and mixed CDs and supports on-the-fly copying (not tested) - I recommend it as a

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-18 Thread Patrick Kirk
Its morning I'm at work and you made me laugh. Thanks. Patrick - Original Message - From: "Daniel Barclay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Friday, February 18, 2000 4:56 AM Subject: Re: Pronounciation of Linux that importa

NCP-Server for Linux

2000-02-18 Thread test
Hi, all Has anybody any experience in setting up NCP - server for linux. I've found 2 links - LinuxWare and MARS_NWE. Can You advise me what package to choose ? TIA, Alex

Re: RedHat --> Debian tool?

2000-02-18 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hi Robert! > I have a RedHat 6.0 box, my laptop actually. I've converted all my other > boxes to debian. I'm almost ready to convert it, but I'd rather not nuke > it out right. Is there a way to "convert" it from RedHat to Debian in a > clean manner? Perhaps it is of no use for you, but I was

gdm

2000-02-18 Thread Oki DZ
Hi, I'd like to be able to login to a remote server via gdmchooser (XDMCP). I have installed gdm on my client machine. The question is, in order to get it to work, do I have to install gdm on the server? I have installed xdm on the server, but I couldn't make them work. Are gdm and xdm compatible

Toshiba laptop install problem

2000-02-18 Thread hgh ghgh
Hi, I'm trying to install Debian/Linux on a Toshiba laptop 486sx /4MG RAM. I downloaded the latest (2.1.4) lowmem, rescue, driver and base 1 to 7 disks. I get stuck in the middle of the installation process after having inserted the whole base set (7 disks), the install program give me an "file

gdm.conf problem -- dumb newbie question

2000-02-18 Thread Steve Winston
In slink in /etc/gdm, in gdm.conf, under the section DAEMON where it calls for USER and GROUP==I get the message that the Gnome Display manager can't find the USER. gdm.conf had USER=nobody, GROUP=daemon right out of the box. I want to change it so it doesn't conflict with xdm. So, what user do I p

Re: SMP

2000-02-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > > it's one of two ways Linux can use Intel-based SMP systems (the other is > > IO-APIC used on PIIs on up, and maybe PPros). > > Seems to be on the PPros too > > Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 >

Re: SMP

2000-02-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > > It's conceivable that the BIOS would enable it's SMP support when the > > second CPU card in added. It's also possible that there was BIOS on the > > CPU card that 'patched' (somehow) the mo

Re: netscape problem?

2000-02-18 Thread Brad
On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 02:35:05PM +1100, Brian May wrote: > > After pushing "reload" several times, the downloaded HTML file is > still corrupted: I've always found that holding shift while pushing 'reload' fixes these types of errors. -- finger for GPG public key. pgpROZFz34JcY.pgp Desc

Re: What happend to Netscape?

2000-02-18 Thread Aaron Solochek
I will third that statement. Netscape will take from like 30-60 megs depending... 4.7, btw. On the subject of memory leaks, has anyone ran (g)top after having had gaim open for a few hours I don't know anything about the AOL IM protocol, but I'm guessing it doesn't require upwards of 15megs

Re: What's the difference between kernel-image-2.2.14-ide and kernel-image-2.2.14?

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Eric Hanchrow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: What's the difference between kernel-image-2.2.14-ide and > kernel-image-2.2.14? > The descriptions of those packages in /var/lib/dpkg/available are identical. There are some IDE-related kernel patches; that -ide kernel apparently has th

Re: What happend to Netscape?

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > I don't think so. If you have plenty of memory Netscape 4.7 have been > > fairly stable. > > > > I would expect that my 128M would be enough. Are you saying that this is not > enough? ;-) I have 128M, and have seen plenty of Netscape problems. Daniel --

Re: SMP

2000-02-18 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Phil Brutsche wrote: > It's concievable that the BIOS would enable it's SMP support when the > second CPU card in added. It's also possible that there was BIOS on the > CPU card that 'patched' (somehow) the motherboard's BIOS. I see, so it's worth trying. I think the best w

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important? - curiosity about origin

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Well, native English speakers pronounce Linus as Lie-nus (as in > Peanuts).. but Linus Torvalds is pronounced Lee-nus, and he says Linux > is Lee-nux. If he doesn't know, nobody does! So I'm with him. Since those would suggest only "LIE-nucks" and "

Re: dial-on-demand changed?

2000-02-18 Thread john s jacobs anderson
> "Brett" == Brett Carlane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brett> john s jacobs anderson on Tue 15 Feb: Brett> Only just started using `demand' myself, so I can't speak for Brett> how it used to work, but my dialup currently behaves as you Brett> describe: well, now that I know it's just

depmod for 2.2.14 stills looks in /lib/modules/2.0.36/

2000-02-18 Thread Rajesh Radhakrishnan
Hi, Even after I upgraded the kernel to 2.2.14 from 2.0.36, bootup process gives me a slew of depmode errors for the modules in the /lib/modules/2.0.36 directory. Where can I make depmod check the /lib/modules/2.2.14 directory instead? Thanks rajesh

Re: Pronounciation of Linux that important?

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Tele2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... > Naturally, the poor saps at KDE didn't get it right. Any fool can say KDE > :-() Well, like, k-DUH! Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://ww

Re: Netscape questions

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > well, this naturally led me to think that keeping those records local > should speed up starting netscrap, so I had tcpdump running while starting > netscrap but I didn´t see a single packet (having, of course, made sure that > those records aren´t ca

Re: SMP

2000-02-18 Thread Sean Johnson
Phil Brutsche wrote: > it's one of two ways Linux can use Intel-based SMP systems (the other is > IO-APIC used on PIIs on up, and maybe PPros). Seems to be on the PPros too Intel MultiProcessor Specification v1.1 Virtual Wire compatibility mode. OEM ID: OEM0 Product ID: PROD

Re: 2.2 kernel

2000-02-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
> From: Igor Mozetic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 2.2.13 and 2.2.14 are lokking good, is there anyone on this > > list that find them unstable? > > When running close to VM limit, 2.2.14 turns out to be buggy. I had seemingly similar repeated serious disk corruption with 2.0.36 before I upgraded

netscape problem?

2000-02-18 Thread Brian May
When downloading: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting via netscape without using any proxy, it crashed (for unrelated reasons). After pushing "reload" several times, the downloaded HTML file is still corrupted: [...] Appropriate details of the hardware in your system. If you're reporting a p

Re: silencing modem

2000-02-18 Thread Pollywog
On 17-Feb-2000 Marko Cehaja wrote: > After I have set up the internet connection, I changed the file > /etc/chatscripts/provider (or whatever there is) > > from > ABORT BUSY > ABORT "NO CARRIER" > ABORT VOICE > ABORT "NO DIALTONE" > ABORT "NO ANSWER" > "" ATZ < This line to -->""

Re: SMP

2000-02-18 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... > On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, aphro wrote: > > > you sure that MB supports dual processors? it seems as if linux doesn't > > say its a SMP capable MB at all. > > Well, the machine (AcerAltos) has two slots for CPU daughterboards. > > > can li

Re: PCI BIOS problems

2000-02-18 Thread ferret
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000, Jonathan Heaney wrote: > Phil Brutsche wrote: > > : > : > : > : > > > If the ethernet card gets a 255 IRQ, then it's possible that you need to > > change the setting that looks something like "PnP OS" (that's how it > > appears on my computer) to "None" or "No". Setting "

Re: silencing modem

2000-02-18 Thread Marko Cehaja
After I have set up the internet connection, I changed the file /etc/chatscripts/provider (or whatever there is) from ABORT BUSY ABORT "NO CARRIER" ABORT VOICE ABORT "NO DIALTONE" ABORT "NO ANSWER" "" ATZ < This line to -->"" ATM0LO OK ATDT010110191501 CONNECT \d\c But that is no

smtp error

2000-02-18 Thread zdrysdal
Hi can someone please explain what this error means : TRANSPORT:smtp ERROR:(ERR175) host retry file locked i am using smail on our debian mail server... and we have just set a system where our hl7 result messages are emailed to the clients mailbox rather then use uucp. So.. does this error mea

Re: C++ dev environment advice

2000-02-18 Thread Michael Laing
> Some have advised using the STL -- the Standard Template (not > 'type') Library. That is sound advice. Thanks to everyone who has continued this thread. The STL does the trick for me, at least in regard to providing the Abstract Data Types (ADTs) that I need. There is a debian package 'stl-ma

Routing Problem

2000-02-18 Thread Simon Law
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I seem to have a problem. The problem is this: I have two computers, one of them a Windows 98 box and one of them a slink box. I am running on a residence network and they allow me only one IP. It is 129.97.35.30 and it has to go through a gateway

Re: Soundblaster AWE64

2000-02-18 Thread Gregory T. Norris
You'll need to install the isapnptools package, and configure it to handle the pnp initialization. I can send you a copy of the conffile I use if you'd like to use it as a model. I think there are a few more sound-related kernel options you might want to enable, although they may not be strictly

Re: X config for Mouse

2000-02-18 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, I finally found what was the problem. It was some conflict withe gpm default options . kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 07:30:02PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'd like to know what protocol should I put in > > the XF86Config for the Logitech

Re: OT Re: netscape 4.7

2000-02-18 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi, Yes. I tried to install communicator-47deb and it needs libc5. Brad wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 03:25:03PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:24:33PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > > > > > Is there a way to install netscape 4.7 without installing >

OT Re: netscape 4.7

2000-02-18 Thread Brad
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 03:25:03PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 02:24:33PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > > > > Is there a way to install netscape 4.7 without installing > > the lib5 stuff. > > Yeah, of course. Will it work after installing? No. Just out of curiousity

Re: X config for Mouse

2000-02-18 Thread kmself
On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 07:30:02PM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to know what protocol should I put in > the XF86Config for the Logitech wheel mouse? > > I tried the MouseMan protocol and the mouse cursor > jump/move out of control :( Section "Pointer" Protocol

Re: removed libc6, how to recover

2000-02-18 Thread Brad
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 11:52:44AM -0800, Michael Kevin O'Brien wrote: > > How does one boot from the rescue disk? I stick the rescue disk in the drive, > turn on the machine. At the rescue prompt: > > I'm unable to switch to vc2. > > rescue root=/dev/fd0 (w/ rescue floppy still in drive

Re: RedHat --> Debian tool?

2000-02-18 Thread kmself
On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 09:01:50PM -0700, Robert L. Harris wrote: > > > I have a RedHat 6.0 box, my laptop actually. I've converted all my other > boxes to debian. I'm almost ready to convert it, but I'd rather not nuke > it out right. Is there a way to "convert" it from RedHat to Debian in a

Re: SMP

2000-02-18 Thread Oki DZ
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, aphro wrote: > you sure that MB supports dual processors? it seems as if linux doesn't > say its a SMP capable MB at all. Well, the machine (AcerAltos) has two slots for CPU daughterboards. > can linux run on SMP 486s ? never heard of anyone who ever ran a dual cpu > 486,

Re: [*]about download program

2000-02-18 Thread kmself
wget On Fri, Feb 18, 2000 at 07:44:26AM +0800, maths wrote: > hello everybody: > > is there any good download software (something like net vampire) for linux? > i fell very happy with debian, but when i want to download something, i had > to comeback to Windows to use the "Jet Car", a very good

Re: default bpp for x

2000-02-18 Thread kmself
On Thu, Feb 17, 2000 at 09:49:12AM -0600, Timothy C. Phan wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyway to configure X to come up at a certain > bpp. It always default to 8. I'd like it to have 24 bpp. > > I currently have to bring x up by xinit -- -bpp 24. Word of caution: some apps (notably Netsca

Re: laptop in a bad place - won't boot

2000-02-18 Thread kmself
It sounds like you have a problem with your lilo configuration. You may have more severe problems, including filesystem corruption. Was the system ever bootable? If so, when did it stop being so? Try booting a rescue distribution -- not your Debian rescue disk, but something like Tom's Root/Bo

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