Re: source for kernel instruction

2000-03-08 Thread Mike Werner
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:34:53PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > the directions to compile a new kernel suck! > > this link has inaccurate information > http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/lyte/kernel.phtml > > there is no instruction to make as86 or make install > > anyone know of a good source for direct

error message

2000-03-08 Thread Beavis
i am getting this error message after loading my new kernel   slink 2.2.14   Failed to open configuration file /etc/exim.conf   i looked in /etc and it is not there!  do i need to point it to look somewhere else?   thankx beavis

installing SCSI HD

2000-03-08 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i am having trouble installing an IBM DRHS SCSI disk onto my slink-2.0.36 server. The adaptec scsi card is found ok but when linux starts to load it halts at : "Downloading sequence code : 419 instructions downloaded. more info : SCSI adpatec adapter found at PCI 10/0 SCSI id:lun is 0:0

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Parrish M Myers
--- Ethan Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know how these nifty things are accomplished? Are the > tools > available to Debian users as .deb's? Does anyone intend to pack > such thing, > e.g. the graphical bootloader with a Debian logo? > > I think this would be a nice option. Wha

AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB video card

2000-03-08 Thread Horacio MG
Hi, just installed this video card (AGP S3 Trio 3D 8MB) and tried to configure it for the X environment, but I can't find the proper sever for it. This is the output from SuperProbe: First video: Super-VGA Chipset: S3 (chipset unknown) (Port Probed) Signature data: e18a

ethernet on laptop

2000-03-08 Thread Patrick
Hi all, When installing on my laptop, after the network setup I was asked which interface and selected PCMCIA not ethernet. The PCMCIA card appears to be working OK but when I run "ifconfig" I get "eth0 unknown interface" errors. Did I make the wrong selection during the setup? Can it be correc

Re: logged boot sequence a la HP-UX

2000-03-08 Thread kmself
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 01:13:09PM -0500, Nick Cabatoff wrote: > I'm wondering if anyone knows of work being done to make sysvinit > capable of logging the output of the rc scripts? HP-UX does this very > nicely, such that instead of seeing what the script writes on stdout > you get a curses-style

Re: tin, leafnode -- news hangs on post

2000-03-08 Thread kmself
On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 12:30:33PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > I'm using leafnode and tin for locally-stored news reading. > > I can read groups and articles but I post. On submitting an item, > on the first instance I get a message that there was an error posting > the message. If I t

Re: vi wrap=?

2000-03-08 Thread Patrick
Thanks for the tip but too late as I've installed vim. It seems just like nvi so much so that I think all versions of vi are the same to someone like me who just edits config files and emails. Best regards, Patrick -- Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

Re: HELP! Install problem. How to free I/O locked by "reserve=..." in boot params?

2000-03-08 Thread Bjoern Brill
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:04:03AM +0100, Bjoern Brill wrote: > > > > Have you tried to insert the wd module with parameters (io=0x280 etc.)? > > I think it doesn't care if resources are reserved or not in this case. > > Hmmm, I used the "ins

Unisys Terminal Emulation

2000-03-08 Thread Chris Larson
Is there a Unisys Terminal Emulation Program for Linux??

Re: vi wrap=?

2000-03-08 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 05:38:57PM +, Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim. Created a .vimrc and > allworks well when I edit files. > > Doesn't work in mutt though. I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better > read man mutt on how to change th

mysql and imp

2000-03-08 Thread Aaron Solochek
I'm trying to get imp running on my machine. I installed apache-ssl, php3, mysql and attempted to let dbconf do all the work. I answered all the questions, but imp won't install, it dies without much of an error message. Getting data from debconf Setting up db file Verifying Non-IMP config fil

Re: fips won't move hidden

2000-03-08 Thread Constantin Vernicos
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: > I'm having trouble repartitioning a drive with a single FAT32 partition > with FIPS. I defragged, did a clean boot, and ran it, but it gives an > error that there are hidden or read-only files at the end of the > partition. I tried disabling the swap

Re: Adding more disk-space

2000-03-08 Thread Bob Hilliard
Viggo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Why does Linux only report 515 Mb, when the drive is supposedly 540 Mb? > (linux using 524/32/63, drive physically 1048/16/63) All hard drive manufacturers artificially and incorrectly define 1 Mb = 1,000,000 bytes 524*32*63*512 bytes/sector = 540,868

rxvt wouldn't run

2000-03-08 Thread Johann Spies
I want to try out rxvt on my mixed debian/slink system and get the following error message: $rxvt rxvt: can't load color "AntiqueWhite" rxvt: can't load color "AntiqueWhite" rxvt: can't load color "Grey25" rxvt: can't load color "Grey25" rxvt: can't load color "rgb:ff/7f/5f" rxvt: can't load color

Re: Configuration management

2000-03-08 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Christian Lynbech on satellite wrote: > I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under > CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it > yet. > > My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use > the branch sy

Adding more disk-space

2000-03-08 Thread Viggo
Please cc: me on replies, I'm having trouble subscribing to the list... Sorry for the inconvenience :-) Regards Vitux

Re: Merging a set of CD's to a local depository

2000-03-08 Thread John Pearson
On Sun, Mar 05, 2000 at 11:57:34AM +, Christian Rishøj wrote > > DEAR DEBIAN USERS, > > I have multicd set containing an unofficial release of Debian Potato > made a few days ago following the instructions and tools suplied with > Debian. > Now I would like to make a local depository on my ha

Re: vi wrap=?

2000-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Patrick wrote: > Hi, > > Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim. Created a .vimrc and > allworks well when I edit files. > > Doesn't work in mutt though. I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better > read man mutt on how to change this. set editor=vim in .muttrc or remove n

logged boot sequence a la HP-UX

2000-03-08 Thread Nick Cabatoff
I'm wondering if anyone knows of work being done to make sysvinit capable of logging the output of the rc scripts? HP-UX does this very nicely, such that instead of seeing what the script writes on stdout you get a curses-style table of scripts and their results, e.g. Starting NIS server ..

Re: Compiling X

2000-03-08 Thread Andrei Ivanov
I need to use 3.3.6 b/c of my video card, and only 3.2.11 version is avaibliel for slink that I use. I dont want to upgrade to potato right now, until I can get a CD. I don't think I could install 3.3.6 from potato b/c of the dependencies, unless I upgrade the systemam I wrong on that? Andrew

Re: Adding more disk-space

2000-03-08 Thread Mark Zimmerman
Here's how I do it (it's not the only way): mkdir newdir cd olddir find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmv newdir This should replicate the whole tree with permissions and symlinks intact. You have to do it as root, of course, to get ownweships to replicate. On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 06:19:24PM +0100, V

Re: vi wrap=?

2000-03-08 Thread Patrick
Hi, Discovered that nvi is pretty basic and installed vim. Created a .vimrc and allworks well when I edit files. Doesn't work in mutt though. I guess that mutt is still using nvi so better read man mutt on how to change this. Thanks for the advice. Patrick On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 10:05:0

Re: Stupid X question

2000-03-08 Thread Marshal Wong
You have to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config. >From my XF86config # The Colour SVGA server Section "Screen" Driver "svga" # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256 #Device "Generic VGA" Device "Voodoo3 (generic)" Monitor "My Monitor" DefaultColorD

Re: Stupid X question

2000-03-08 Thread Mark Wagnon
in 03/08/00 08:23AM, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote: > How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been > using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but > what if I want to use xdm? I have looked through all of my linux > documentation, howtos, faqs, m

Re: Stupid X question

2000-03-08 Thread Armin Joellenbeck
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 08:23:54AM -0800, Hausheer, Geoffrey wrote: > How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been > using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but > what if I want to use xdm? I have looked through all of my linux > documenta

Re: samba

2000-03-08 Thread Timothy C. Phan
Hi Jenz, The owner of the /etc/samba/smbpasswd is root and the permission is -rw---. The /etc/hosts.allow has nothing in there except comment. Is the setup correct? Thanks! "Jens B. Jorgensen" wrote: > > "Timothy C. Phan" wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I did a grep usera /etc/samba

Re: How to add a user to a group on the fly

2000-03-08 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 17:31, Kent West wrote: > > If I want to add my normal user (westk) to the > > dialout group, I know I can (as root) edit the > > /etc/group file and add westk to the end of the > > dialout line. However, I then have to log out (and > > shut down vmware

Re: Where to specify fonts for which apps?

2000-03-08 Thread Kent West
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:30:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Whenever I've got xfstt running, several apps have > > menus, etc that use cursive, hard-to-read fonts. > > For example, when I ctrl-right-click on an xterm > > to bring up the fontsize menu, all the text in

Stupid X question

2000-03-08 Thread Hausheer, Geoffrey
How do I get X to automatically boot to 16bpp (or 24, or 32)? I have been using a '-bpp 16' switch on the command line (or soetimes an alias), but what if I want to use xdm? I have looked through all of my linux documentation, howtos, faqs, man-pages, etc, but couldn't find this anywhere. Please

Adding more disk-space

2000-03-08 Thread Viggo
Hi Debian-folks Finally got Debian running on my old 486/100, using a WDC 2540 hd (540 Mb), at hda (hda1). /home is on an old Seagate 213 Mb (hdc). Running out of space, I've installed another WDC 2540 on hdd (hdb is the cd-rom). After figuring out the way around the 1024 cyl-limit (thanks to the L

Re: vi wrap=?

2000-03-08 Thread Dave Sherohman
Martin Schulze said: > beware, usually the margin is counted from the right side, which > means that on a text console with 132 colums the calculation is > different from an xterm with 80 columns... ...so you should use the textwidth setting instead if you want the number of columns to be independ

Re: Compiling X

2000-03-08 Thread Ron Rademaker
Why are you compiling X?? Do you know debian packages? To my experience they work a lot easier then compiling yourself Just download the .deb packages you need (or use apt, you want the newest x but perhaps you don't want to upgrade your whole system to p

Please reply to this...

2000-03-08 Thread Viggo

Compiling X

2000-03-08 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Hi all. I recently had to build 3.3.6 version for glibc2.0. Went smoothhowever, after I replaced video card this morning, and reran XF86Setup, I ran into problems with users starting X (root can do it fine): Fatal Server Error: xf86OpenConsole: Server must be running with root permissions. You

RE: bin86 missing (was Re: compiling new kernel)

2000-03-08 Thread Bryan Scaringe
First thing I did after my install was remove all unused packages that didn't cause dselect to have kittens. bin86 was one of them. found that out quick enough. The second thing I tried to do after install was recompile he kernel. Bryan > I can't understand how so many people seem to "lose" bi

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-08 Thread Aaron Solochek
Ok, I have a matrox g400, and all I want is the nice looking 1024x768 console. I can get this using the append="video=matrox:vesa:280" in lilo.conf. However, this stops working as soon as I enter X, and then try to either exit, or switch to another virtual console. I don't understant where ther

Re: colors change. help

2000-03-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Steve Winston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I need help with a color problem. > In slink, when I try to use any graphics program, the overall > colors of desktop change. In xpaint or Moonlight Creator, gray areas > turn to green or turquoise blue when I move the mouse from the > menu to the draw

fips won't move hidden

2000-03-08 Thread Brian J. Stults
I'm having trouble repartitioning a drive with a single FAT32 partition with FIPS. I defragged, did a clean boot, and ran it, but it gives an error that there are hidden or read-only files at the end of the partition. I tried disabling the swap file (which I probably should have done anyway.) Th

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-08 Thread Mark Zimmerman
I got the following information from someone who doesn't like to post to the list. I haven't had time to try out the suggested mode, though. > There is no kernel driver for get 'Matrox acceleration' in the 2.2 > kernels yet. The 2.3 beta has it. The best you can do right now for > 2.2 generic VE

bin86 missing (was Re: compiling new kernel)

2000-03-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nick Barron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > ok, so we everyone is clear > > i am trying to get the make bzImage command to write this > > /usr/src/linux-2.2.x/arch/i386/boot/bzImage > > but it doesn't, it gives me an error > > make[1]: as86: Command not found > make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error

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Re: quick question

2000-03-08 Thread David Wright
Quoting Tek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Okay, I was confusing LILO and loadlin (I knew what I was talking about, but > didn't use the right name). I believe I know now what to do, but I still > don't know about one thing: should I toggle the "bootable" flag on for the > root partition on the HDD, or le

Re: HELP! Install problem. How to free I/O locked by "reserve=..." in boot params?

2000-03-08 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
On Wed, Mar 08, 2000 at 03:04:03AM +0100, Bjoern Brill wrote: > > Have you tried to insert the wd module with parameters (io=0x280 etc.)? > I think it doesn't care if resources are reserved or not in this case. Hmmm, I used the "insmod wd io=0x280", and it resulted in the mentioned error. However

xrdb preproccessing linux

2000-03-08 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi all I'm resending this messages, as before I seemed to get no reply... Perhaps soneone can help me now? --cut- Hello I use the VGA font with rxvt, and to get the high-ascii type chars to be handled properly, I need to set my termtype to linux. But it seems that xrdb transl

Re: Where to specify fonts for which apps?

2000-03-08 Thread Alexis Roda
"Eric G . Miller" wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:30:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > > Whenever I've got xfstt running, several apps have > > [...] > > I specify what fonts will be used in this pop-up > > menu? > > > > Thanks! > > Many X apps have Xresource settings you can put in your ~

Re: Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-08 Thread Tobias Zimpel
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 04:07:49PM +1100, Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: >With apt you should be able to > >#apt-get souce wu-ftpd >#cd wu-ftpd_2.6.0 >#debuild -us -us or fakeroot debian/rules binary apt-get -b source wu-ftpd That fetches the sources, and builds a binary package automatically from it.

New chipset in X

2000-03-08 Thread Emilio Tejedor
Hi everybody: I've read in the release notes for xfree 3.3.6 this: Support for Silicon Motion Lynx chipsets I have a laptop HP OmnibookXE2 wich has one of this chips (Silicon Motion LynxE as reported by win98) Reading the documentation for the release I wasn't able to find out which of the ser

Link exchange

2000-03-08 Thread Manisha at FAT24
Dear Webmaster, Hi! My name is Manisha and I work for FAT24. I'm in charge of identifying websites for cross promotion for a new client of ours called Joyo96. I came across your website and really liked it. I thought we could exchange links. Joyo96 is mostly concerned with written Japanese

CRCD

2000-03-08 Thread Craig H. Block
CRCD makes recovery CD's for Linux http://annex.com/craig/crcd.htm

Re: kernel success story

2000-03-08 Thread kmself
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:27:35PM -0800, Beavis wrote: > hello list: > > thankx for everyone's input > > a linuxnewbie, myself, was able to upgrade his linux kernel from 2.0.38 to > 2.2.14 (the latest and greatest slink!) > > so thank you for your support. > > machine used: > pentium 200 > 32

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-08 Thread Brad
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 06:16:36PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > > See bug #59656 - it seems that the /etc/Xsession that gets installed > by xfree86-common 3.3.6-4 has a problem somewhere. Downgrading that > package (xfree86-common) back to 3.3.6-3 fixed it. That bug has been reassigned to xbase-c

Re: colors change. help

2000-03-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 08:44:25PM -0800, Steve Winston wrote: > I need help with a color problem. > In slink, when I try to use any graphics program, the overall > colors of desktop change. In xpaint or Moonlight Creator, gray areas > turn to green or turquoise blue when I move the mouse from the

Re: Who builds YOUR binary RPMs?

2000-03-08 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
I think there is a rather simple reason why .rpms are everywhere but .debs isn't. The rpm based distributions are so much smaller that important functionality is missing, thus forcing many people to go and build rpms for their favourite software. Since debian is so big, there is very little softwa

Re: fstab stuff - rather stupid question, I know!

2000-03-08 Thread Ethan Benson
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 07:58:04PM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > > To cd into a directory, you must heve execute permission for > that directory. I.E. change: > > drw-rw-rw-6 root audio4.0k Mar 6 20:58 l/ > > drw-rw-rw-2 root audio 16k Mar 6 20:34 lost+found/ > > d

Re: Configuration management

2000-03-08 Thread Christian Lynbech on satellite
I have been toying with the same idea (putting stuf like /etc) under CVS control, though I haven't gotten round to become serious about it yet. My idea towards handling individual machine specifics would be to use the branch system. If a certain file needed a specific change, branch off (on that f

Re: exim and spam relay

2000-03-08 Thread Jonathan Lupa
CAVEAT : I am a programmer - not a sysadmin. This is the best I can muster, but it may not be good enough. :) A (clipped) copy of your exim.conf file would have helped... This may or may not be of help, but since I recently locked down a mail server, I can at least say it worked for me... This is

Re: Eterm --console

2000-03-08 Thread Jonathan Lupa
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 11:36:16PM +1100, Damon Muller wrote: > Pipe it through a log-colouriser, and it's even cooler. That sounds just geeky enough to work. :) Can you point me to some such program? Searching for "log" and "color" in dselect didn't cut it. Thanks. -Jonathan -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Fw: compiling new kernel

2000-03-08 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Nick Barron say > ok, so we everyone is clear > > i am trying to get the make bzImage command to write this > > /usr/src/linux-2.2.x/arch/i386/boot/bzImage > > but it doesn't, it gives me an error > > make[1]: as86: Command not found ^^

Re: source for kernel instruction

2000-03-08 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
For Debian user, I suggest install kernel-packge and read /usr/doc/kernel-package/README.gz then in /usr/src/linux Do what README suggest. Chanop Once upon a time, I heard Beavis say > the directions to compile a new kernel suck! > > this link has inaccurate information > http://www.linuxhelp

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 09:53:12PM -0500, Aaron Solochek wrote: > In light of all this talk, I decided to give my g400 frame buffer > another shot. I Recompiled my kernel, with support for the g100/g200 > framebuffer devices. I added the lines below to my lilo.conf > > append="video=matrox:vesa:

colors change. help

2000-03-08 Thread Steve Winston
I need help with a color problem. In slink, when I try to use any graphics program, the overall colors of desktop change. In xpaint or Moonlight Creator, gray areas turn to green or turquoise blue when I move the mouse from the menu to the drawing areas. Also, when I try to use AbiWord, I get a

Re: Realplayer G2 in Debian

2000-03-08 Thread Cyrus Patel
Hey Cameron, check that your sound card supports midi playback - for example, I have a SB64PCI which does not feature hardware midi playback. If your card falls into this category then I suggest using Timidity which is a software based midi player. Hope this helps Cyrus Matheson [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: compiling new kernel

2000-03-08 Thread Matthew Dalton
He means: Nick Barron wrote: > second, translate this into english please: > > #dpkg -S as86 as the root user (# prompt) run the command 'dpkg -S as86' > bin86: /usr/share/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap > bin86: /usr/bin/as86 > bin86: /usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz This is the output of the dpk

Re: source for kernel instruction

2000-03-08 Thread ktb
Go to,   http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/debian-faq-11.html   hth, kent - Original Message - From: Beavis To: debian list Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 7:34 PM Subject: source for kernel instruction the directions to compile a new kernel suck!   this link

Re: compiling new kernel

2000-03-08 Thread ethan mindlace fremen
Nick Barron wrote: > > ok first off, it is 'I heard Beavis say' not said u nerd! > > second, translate this into english please: > > #dpkg -S as86 > bin86: /usr/share/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap > bin86: /usr/bin/as86 > bin86: /usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz > > pretend I am a newbie, which i a

Re: Realplayer G2 in Debian

2000-03-08 Thread Dale Morris
On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I'm trying to get RealPlayer G2 to play sound formats (other than the > Real audio/video format). I want to be able to play my midis, but it > says that RealPlayer does not have the right support. > > How do I get this to work? Check out http://ww

Re: Boot problems.

2000-03-08 Thread Marshal Wong
I believe someone mentioned just earlier on the list that you need to boot using the terca boot images for the Athlon. Try searching the archives within the last week or so. > "Nick" == Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi i'm having problems Installing Debian. It freezes during t

magnetic synchronous motor water pumps

2000-03-08 Thread nhhuajian
Huajian Electrics company specializes in manufacturing household electrical appliance fittings. The main products include: magnetic synchronous motor water pumps for washing machines and dishwasher and down-leads of computer mainboard control pins of household electrical appliance. and we provi

Re: No archive ?

2000-03-08 Thread ktb
Check out, http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/ kent - Original Message - From: Irwan Hadi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2000 7:16 PM Subject: No archive ? > Is this mailling list doesn't have any archive ? > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > : > > :: > ::: > Date: 7 Mar 2

Re: USB scanners in Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Ben Collins
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 05:32:32PM -0700, Matheson wrote: > Hey, > > I just got offered a job to program this new device for laptops (you > hook your laptop up to it, and you can get TV, radio, network, etc.), > but they want to do it in Linux (I would be in charge of getting the > Linux to work a

kernel success story

2000-03-08 Thread Beavis
hello list:   thankx for everyone's input   a linuxnewbie, myself, was able to upgrade his linux kernel from 2.0.38 to 2.2.14 (the latest and greatest slink!)   so thank you for your support.   machine used: pentium 200 32 mb 1.5 gig HD   do u suggest any logs to view, just to make sure everyt

Sawmill wont stop trying to read debian-menu.jl

2000-03-08 Thread Bryan Scaringe
I can't seem to get sawmill to stop reading /etc/X11/sawmill/debian-menu.jl. It's quite annoying. What I really want is to have a specific user of my system be able to ignore this file, and be able to define his own sawmill menu. Any ideas on how to accomplish this? Bryan

Re: Framebuffer console with a G400

2000-03-08 Thread Aaron Solochek
In light of all this talk, I decided to give my g400 frame buffer another shot. I Recompiled my kernel, with support for the g100/g200 framebuffer devices. I added the lines below to my lilo.conf append="video=matrox:vesa:280" That worked. I got a very nice frame buffer console. However, once

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-08 Thread Shaul Karl
> I am having problems installing the wu-ftpd package from source. > > The whole reason I am grabbing the source is that I want to use a more > recent version of wu-ftpd than what is available with the slink binary > packages. If I can build the package from the source files to give me > a slink c

Re: need missing header file serial_compat.h

2000-03-08 Thread Shaul Karl
> hello, > > I was wondering where can I get that missing header file > serial_compat.h > I can not locate this file on my machine. How did you come to the conclusion that you need it? This might be a lead for the way to get it. -- Shaul Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: compiling new kernel

2000-03-08 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
Once upon a time, I heard Nick Barron say > ok first off, it is 'I heard Beavis say' not said u nerd! Terribly sorry for my bad English, I hope that I get it right this time! > second, translate this into english please: I'm not sure whether I could translate this into a good English or not. > #

Re: calendar file

2000-03-08 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi ther : > I was just exploring the OS when i noticed that there is NO > calendar.muslim file available. Although i cant understand the reason > behind it but if it is non availibilty of data than i would love to be of > some help. > > Thanks for your time > Syed Muhammad Ali Zaidi > Email: [E

Re: Where to specify fonts for which apps?

2000-03-08 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 10:30:35AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Whenever I've got xfstt running, several apps have > menus, etc that use cursive, hard-to-read fonts. > For example, when I ctrl-right-click on an xterm > to bring up the fontsize menu, all the text in > that pop-up menu is hard-to-read c

Re: HELP! Install problem. How to free I/O locked by "reserve=..." in boot params?

2000-03-08 Thread Bjoern Brill
On Fri, 3 Mar 2000 09:56:15 +0100, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: >Hi All, I have to install potato on a computer which locks with standard >potato's installation kernel. This machine has a NIC (wd8003) located at >0x280. During the boot time one of the SCSI drivers (probably sim710) >included in

problems setting up sockd

2000-03-08 Thread Ron Farrer
I have a Linux box with a dial up modem that does ipmasq. Most things work fine, but some don't. Like ICQ. (yeah, yeah, icq sucks, bla, bla, etc.) So I'm trying to setup a socks4 server (socks4-server from potato). Anyway the only thing in the logs are: inetd[287]: socks/tcp/udp: unknown service

Re: compiling new kernel

2000-03-08 Thread Nick Barron
ok first off, it is 'I heard Beavis say' not said u nerd! second, translate this into english please: #dpkg -S as86 bin86: /usr/share/doc/bin86/examples/as86_encap bin86: /usr/bin/as86 bin86: /usr/share/man/man1/as86.1.gz pretend I am a newbie, which i am.please don't tell anybody! how would

source for kernel instruction

2000-03-08 Thread Beavis
the directions to compile a new kernel suck!   this link has inaccurate information http://www.linuxhelp.net/guides/lyte/kernel.phtml   there is no instruction to make as86 or make install   anyone know of a good source for directions to compile and load a new kernel?

Realplayer G2 in Debian

2000-03-08 Thread Matheson
Hey, I'm trying to get RealPlayer G2 to play sound formats (other than the Real audio/video format). I want to be able to play my midis, but it says that RealPlayer does not have the right support. How do I get this to work? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Fw: compiling new kernel

2000-03-08 Thread Nick Barron
ok, so we everyone is clear i am trying to get the make bzImage command to write this /usr/src/linux-2.2.x/arch/i386/boot/bzImage but it doesn't, it gives me an error make[1]: as86: Command not found make[1]: *** [bbootsect.o] Error 127 make[1]: Leaving directory '/usr/src/linux-2.2.14/arch/i

Re: fstab stuff - rather stupid question, I know!

2000-03-08 Thread Mike Werner
On Tue, Mar 07, 2000 at 06:03:18PM -0500, addiction wrote: > This is a very newbie-ish question but here it is... I have several > partitions, three of which I want to mount via fstab so that any user can > read (not write) all of the files and directories. These are all ext2 > Please, someone tel

No archive ?

2000-03-08 Thread Irwan Hadi
Is this mailling list doesn't have any archive ? From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : :: ::: Date: 7 Mar 2000 15:35:20 - : To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : : X-Loop: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Subject: archive retrieval: ls volumeold : ls -l volumeold BEGIN---cut

USB scanners in Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Matheson
Hey, I just got offered a job to program this new device for laptops (you hook your laptop up to it, and you can get TV, radio, network, etc.), but they want to do it in Linux (I would be in charge of getting the Linux to work also). Anyways, the scanners they want to use are USB, and TWAIN-compl

Boot problems.

2000-03-08 Thread Nick Smith
Hi i'm having problems Installing Debian. It freezes during the boot sequence. I've tried booting from the CD and from the rescue floppy but it always fails. Boot sequence detects: hda - main harddisk hdb - linux harddisk hdc - Installation CDROM hdd - DVD-ROM ide0 - then linux sets the IRQ and

Re: Getting dialog to work

2000-03-08 Thread Allan M. Wind
On 2000-03-07 15:21:29, Matheson wrote: > I'm still trying to get this stupid dialog thing to work, so I tried to > do this example script. Unfortunately, if gives me the same output no > matter what the user chooses. If anyone could help me, that would help > me a lot. Here it is: > > #!/bin/

Re: vi wrap=?

2000-03-08 Thread Martin Schulze
Patrick wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there a file I can set margins to wrap at 65 characters for all vi > sessions, > including those in mutt? .exrc .virc .vimrc .elvisrc .foorc - depending on the variant of vi you're using. beware, usually the margin is counted from the right side, which means that

Re: HOW DO I Apply debian patch to original source?

2000-03-08 Thread Brian Lavender
Ok, I got the debhelper package so that when I do $ apt-get source wu-ftpd $ cd wu-ftpd-2.60 $ debian/rules binary It will build. Now here is the thing. When I look at the rules file It appears that it has a logrotate configuration on the install. So, I am thinking that I can comment out that lo

GRFS? Seagate backup broken with upgrade

2000-03-08 Thread Kent West
Anyone running the Seagate Backup Exec client for Unix on their Debian box? I am, and was getting backed up no problem, but some time ago I upgraded a few things (don't remember now), and now my backup client won't initialize. There's a line in my /etc/services like: grfs6101/tcp#Backup E

psgml question

2000-03-08 Thread Bob Bernstein
I was using Emacs running under X to edit sgml, with the 'old' SGML mode. Today I installed the deb for psgml and lost all syntax highlighting in the process. This is a fairly up-to-date frozen potato. My ~/.emacs looks like: --- snip --- (autoload 'sgml-mode "psgml" "Major mode to edit SGML fil

Re: libbz2 question

2000-03-08 Thread Shao Zhang
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On 07-Mar-2000 Shao Zhang wrote: > > Hi, > > It seems that libbz2 does not have a function that similar to > > fgets or gzgets. > > > > Does anyone know how to do it using the libbz2 functions? > > > > my understanding is that y

Mismatched libraries

2000-03-08 Thread Robert Kerr
I have an application using vendor-supplied libraries linked against libstdc++2.8.0. I've upgraded to potato, and now my program crashes. I'm thinking it's because the default libraries for potato are 2.10.0 etc, and my program is linking in both versions and having conflicts. so: 1) Am I righ

Re: Potato Broke My X

2000-03-08 Thread Mike Werner
On Mon, Mar 06, 2000 at 08:20:46PM -0800, Jim Varney wrote: > > Updating my Potato system a few days ago with dselect broke my X windows. X > starts up with the herringbone and shows a single shell window and prompt. > It never gets as far as the full desktop. I have to use cntl-alt-backspace >

Re: Fancy features of Storm Linux

2000-03-08 Thread Phillip Deackes
"Christian Rishøj" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently visited Storm Linux's (Debian in disguise) homepage and found some fancy (not nessecarily usable) features like graphical bootloader and (framebuffered?) svga console and boot sequence. See for example http://www.stormix.com/products/screens

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