Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Adam" == Adam Di Carlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Adam> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: >>> The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You need to use >>> bootfloppies with a kernel on them that's patched for UDMA66 >>> support (using the IDE patches from

Re: one machine, two IP addresses?

2000-03-19 Thread Ross Boylan
You have understood my question, and thanks to you and Jean for your answers. The key is the IP address is a property of the connection, not the computer. Because of the way the initial system install works, I had thought it was a property of the machine (where it asks for your ethernet config

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Adam Di Carlo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom) writes: >> The bootfloppies for Slink don't handle UDMA66. You need to use >> bootfloppies with a kernel on them that's patched for UDMA66 >> support (using the IDE patches from >> ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/hedrick/). I'm not sure if >> potato's b

Re: URGENT: libwww-perl: automated form filling

2000-03-19 Thread Shao Zhang
I have the same problem here. I have posted to perl.misc and libwww mailinglist without any success. However, the answers are positive, and lots people mentioned to have a go on the module CGI.pm. Please have a look at the following form: https://registry.connect.com.au/cgi-bin/na_create.

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 02:02:11PM -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > Once again, how do you specify the CHS specs for cfdisk or fdisk? You have to go into "Expert" mode. The command is 'x' with fdisk. I don't remember for cfdisk. -- ++ | Eric G.

Re: Sony vaio

2000-03-19 Thread Shao Zhang
Try the linux-laptop page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ Tim Ryder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone have any info on getting the sony cd51 pcmcia cd player to work > with debian > it installs itself at ide2=0x180,0x386 > I am using the sony vaio n505ve > > tim

XF86Config per user?

2000-03-19 Thread Hans Ekbrand
Hi! I use a single workstation at home. Recently, other family members have started to use my system. The /etc/X11/XF86Config is edited by me for my preferences, but is there a way to let users decide e.g. what resolution to start their X session with. I like 1600x1200 but they might prefer say

Re: Free Internet... ?

2000-03-19 Thread Chris Gray
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 01:50:38PM -0800, Percival wrote: > > I apologize, but I remember that several days ago someone was talking about a > free web access deal. Some company who pays for free internet access by > putting advertising on their hompage, and requesting users to load it as > the

(not)lame batch job

2000-03-19 Thread Hans
I've been comparing (not)lame313 and bladeenc today and (not)lame does sound equally good at 128 compared to bladeenc at 256 bitrate. I use The Who's 'Won't Get Fooled Again' for comparison, if you wonder. What I can't get done with (not)lame is batch jobs. Bladeenc simply names the mp3 after the

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Lavender
Once again, how do you specify the CHS specs for cfdisk or fdisk? brian On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 01:37:17PM -0800, Percival wrote: > > It really sucks, basically. I found out that I had to track down the > manufacturer of my large hard drive, get the specs from them, and then pass > them on to

Re: Fw: netscape

2000-03-19 Thread Nick Barron
well it seems that i already have xlib6g installed with /usr/x11r6/lib/libXt.so.6 & libXt.so.6.0 do i need to move them to a different location? maybe netscape isn't recognizing it, how can i fix that or do u think the problem is a bit more complex? - Original Message - From: Jonas Steve

Re: help with ppp--> Linux-eth0-> windoze home network

2000-03-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
I've done what you want with a linux box (Slink) and several winthings, I used ISDN there, but I don't think that makes much different with a analogue modem. You should use diald to bring up the connection if needed. You can do IP masquerading with ipchains. How does your /etc/init.d/network looks

Free Internet... ?

2000-03-19 Thread Percival
I apologize, but I remember that several days ago someone was talking about a free web access deal. Some company who pays for free internet access by putting advertising on their hompage, and requesting users to load it as their start page. It worked with linux, which was the prime factor. I

Re: help with ppp--> Linux-eth0-> windoze home network

2000-03-19 Thread Percival
How are you connecting the two machines? If you do not have a hub, you need to have a crossover cable to go direct from one ethernet card to the other (adduming you are using 10/100baseT, not coax). After figuring out that, you should be able to configure the rest. Use swat for the samba con

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Percival
It really sucks, basically. I found out that I had to track down the manufacturer of my large hard drive, get the specs from them, and then pass them on to cfdisk/fdisk and ignore the warnings that those programs gave me. I also remember that one of them sinply would not work (fdisk, I think)

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread aphro
this is normal, netscape is trying to resolve some domain names during that point..and i guess because of its single-threadedness(?) that it freezes during resolution(found it when running an strace on the process) happens on every version of netscape/X i have used be it linux libc5 linux libc6, o

Re: How to configure ls colors

2000-03-19 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 12:25:06PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote: > On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 09:09:23PM +0100, Andreas Sliwka wrote: > > Hi, how do I configure the colors ls shows? I cant find any kind of > > manual for this ... neither man ls nor info ls nor > > /usr/share/doc/fileutils ... > > >Fr

Re: no merit from using DMA-66?

2000-03-19 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! That has something to do with your hard disk cache. Because, when the data requested by the PC happens to be in the internal cache (typically 512k-2megs), it can be transferrred to the mainboard at full bus speed rate! That's an improvement of UDMA! And, the interfaces are always a little b

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread Tommi Komulainen
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 07:58:34PM +0100, Sven Esbjerg wrote: > Hi > > I'm wondering how other debian potato-boxes behaves in X. I have a 2 > month old potato system running on a dual-celeron, 256Mbyte ram and a > Matrox G400. The kernel is a patched 2.2.14 (using the IDE-patch from > hedrik). X f

help with ppp--> Linux-eth0-> windoze home network

2000-03-19 Thread esoR ocsirF
Hello fellow Dusers, I am (and have been) trying to get my home machines running with the following configuration. So Far I have had little success. I have Debian Box (Potato) configured with ppp (Love it!) My wife has a winblows box (Hate it!) Both have ethernet cards and are cabled to each other

Re: Frozen, rsync

2000-03-19 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antonio Rodriguez) wrote: >Colin Watson wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antonio Rodriguez) wrote: >> >The reason is that I plan to prepare my own CDs next time, so I >> >thought could be a good idea to start collecting packages so that when I >> >run the rsync it can get most from m

Re: KDE (was Re: alternatives to gnotepad+)

2000-03-19 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 15:10:49 -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Unless I'm mistaken, KDE2 will be included in Debian's site because of > all the licensing changes You are probably mistaken. While there is a license change in that KDE2 uses Qt2 which unlike Qt1 which KDE1 uses is free, the license un

Re: How to configure ls colors

2000-03-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 09:09:23PM +0100, Andreas Sliwka wrote: > Hi, how do I configure the colors ls shows? I cant find any kind of > manual for this ... neither man ls nor info ls nor > /usr/share/doc/fileutils ... >From man ls: --color[=WHEN] control whether color is use

ATAPI tape drives.

2000-03-19 Thread Edward Mulholland
The linux hardward compatability HOWTO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO.html says the following about ATAPI tape drives: > ATAPI tape drives > For these an alpha driver (ide-tape.c) is available in the kernel. > > ATAPI tape drives supported are > > Seagate TapeStor 8000 > Conner

Re: How to configure ls colors

2000-03-19 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Andreas" == Andreas Sliwka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, how do I configure the colors ls shows? I cant find any kind > of manual for this ... neither man ls nor info ls nor > /usr/share/doc/fileutils ... Try man dircolours and info dircolors. > mfg -- Andreas Sliwka |

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread John Hasler
Sven Esbjerg writes: > I'm wondering how other debian potato-boxes behaves in X. Mine does. > I have a 2 month old potato system running on a dual-celeron, 256Mbyte > ram and a Matrox G400. The kernel is a patched 2.2.14 (using the > IDE-patch from hedrik). Dual Pentium III, Tyan S1837UANG mb, 3

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread Bob Nielsen
I'm seeing this with netscape 4.72 (libc6 version), 2.2.14 and xserver-svga 3.3.6-6. If I bring up netscape, click on the location box and start to type, it will freeze every time. If I wait a few seconds after clicking on the box, the vertical cursor line will appear in the box and I can type w

RE: KDE (was Re: alternatives to gnotepad+)

2000-03-19 Thread Bart Szyszka
> BTW, are there .debs for KDE in Debian? I tried GNOME, > but it wasn't really my kind of desktop, and KDE looks > good. Yep, take a look at: http://kde.tdyc.com Unless I'm mistaken, KDE2 will be included in Debian's site because of all the licensing changes, but for noe kde.tdyc.com is where y

How to configure ls colors

2000-03-19 Thread Andreas Sliwka
Hi, how do I configure the colors ls shows? I cant find any kind of manual for this ... neither man ls nor info ls nor /usr/share/doc/fileutils ... mfg -- Andreas Sliwka | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | f y cn rd ths y mst hv bn sng nx --BEGIN GEEK CODE V3.12 BLOCK- GCS/MU/L d-(+) S:+

Re: police dimension on X

2000-03-19 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 06:40:09PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I upgraded my Potatoe for one month, since a little problem appears: > the font dimension is big on certain applications ( for example > Netscape, the gimp...) and I can't modify their. I try to modify > XF86Config without effect.

Re: Alt Keys -> Meta (under X11)

2000-03-19 Thread Richard Klinda
Hoi joostje, All! > Does anyone know how to make the Alt keys generate Meta? > That is I want Alt-F to generate Meta-F (under Emacs, bash, etc). I put these lines to my .Xclients: ## xmodmap -e "clear mod1" xmodmap -e "keycode 64 = Meta_L" -e "add mod1 = Meta_L" ## Now left alt generates the

KDE (was Re: alternatives to gnotepad+)

2000-03-19 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Also what about kedit part of KDE. It opens more than one file simultaneously. BTW, are there .debs for KDE in Debian? I tried GNOME, but it wasn't really my kind of desktop, and KDE looks good. Thanks, Jonathan Nieder __ Get Your Private,

Re: Networking

2000-03-19 Thread mcmi0037
> > > I guess my real question is, can I do a connect like this: > > > > > > inet > hub ---> box1 > > > | > > > +-> box2 > > Yes, you can do so, as long as you tell box2 to route its traffic through > box1. You did know that the gateway is a wholly logical and

Re: one machine, two IP addresses?

2000-03-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I usually dial-up to my ISP and get an assigned IP address for the session. > I am thinking of connecting my ethernet card to a network, so I might have > two connections at once. > > My understanding is that the IP address comes from the ethernet card > (hmm... but then it couldn't be assigne

Re: Networking

2000-03-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> > > I guess my real question is, can I do a connect like this: > > > > > > inet > hub ---> box1 > > > | > > > +-> box2 > > > "of course" you cannot do so, because the second box would need a > > separate global ip. > > Yes, you can do so, as long as you tell

one machine, two IP addresses?

2000-03-19 Thread Ross Boylan
I usually dial-up to my ISP and get an assigned IP address for the session. I am thinking of connecting my ethernet card to a network, so I might have two connections at once. My understanding is that the IP address comes from the ethernet card (hmm... but then it couldn't be assigned in a loc

Re: I have a hardware question.

2000-03-19 Thread Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong
> "Charlie" == Charlie Ebert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am currently running Mandrake 7.0 Air and have become inspired > by Debian. I want to run Debian. > Currently , (Air) supports my Ultra 66 Hard drive and my Sound > Blaster Live audio card. > If I install Slink

Re: I have a hardware question.

2000-03-19 Thread Andrei Ivanov
[snip] > I know these two hardware items ARE supported in the LINUX of today but > does the LINUX of today > cover any of the 2.1 releases??? The support for devices is not in Linux distributions, but in the kernel itself. Currently, the default kernel installed in slink is the 2.0.36 series, but

Re: Networking

2000-03-19 Thread Hecubus
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > I guess my real question is, can I do a connect like this: > > > > inet > hub ---> box1 > > | > > +-> box2 > "of course" you cannot do so, because the second box would need a > separate global ip. Yes, you ca

Re: I have a hardware question.

2000-03-19 Thread Sven Esbjerg
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 01:05:08PM -0600, Charlie Ebert wrote: > Currently , (Air) supports my Ultra 66 Hard drive and my Sound Blaster > Live audio card. > > If I install Slink, do I get support for these two peices of hardware? > Or do I have to wait for Potato to come out? If you install Slink

Re: X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
hi sven, i'm experiencing this kind of freezes, too. i also use kernel 2.2.14, but i'm not running debian (but suse) and use xfree 3.3.5. the programm that causes these freezes _seems_ to be netscape, but who knows for sure ... maybe because i own an abit board, too (it's a bx6) ... > I'm wonderi

Re: URGENT: libwww-perl: automated form filling

2000-03-19 Thread Paul J. Keenan
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 07:22:13PM +0100, Alberto Maurizi wrote: > > Hi all, Debian people. > > I'm quite new to perl and, in particular to libwww-perl. > I fell on it because I was looking for some API to write > www clients to automatically fill forms. > > The pro

I have a hardware question.

2000-03-19 Thread Charlie Ebert
I am currently running Mandrake 7.0 Air and have become inspired by Debian. I want to run Debian. Currently , (Air) supports my Ultra 66 Hard drive and my Sound Blaster Live audio card. If I install Slink, do I get support for these two peices of hardware? Or do I have to wait for Potato to come

X stability issue

2000-03-19 Thread Sven Esbjerg
Hi I'm wondering how other debian potato-boxes behaves in X. I have a 2 month old potato system running on a dual-celeron, 256Mbyte ram and a Matrox G400. The kernel is a patched 2.2.14 (using the IDE-patch from hedrik). X freezes totally after a few days of use. Sometimes I'm able to go to a cons

Re: gpm config for Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2

2000-03-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have a similar problem. Everything is OK with X with config: > > Section "Pointer" > Protocol"IMPS/2" > Device "/dev/mouse" > ZAxisMapping 4 5 > EndSection > > With gpm, I have tried type=imps2. No good, but... > when switching off gpm (/etc/init.d/gpm stop) with that con

police dimension on X

2000-03-19 Thread herve
I upgraded my Potatoe for one month, since a little problem appears: the font dimension is big on certain applications ( for example Netscape, the gimp...) and I can't modify their. I try to modify XF86Config without effect. Is anybody meeting the same problem? >From what may this problem come fro

URGENT: libwww-perl: automated form filling

2000-03-19 Thread Alberto Maurizi
Hi all, Debian people. I'm quite new to perl and, in particular to libwww-perl. I fell on it because I was looking for some API to write www clients to automatically fill forms. The problem I have is that I cannot get the same result from the serve

Making the "Windows" key work

2000-03-19 Thread Eric Hagglund
Can someone explain (or point me to the correct documentation for) the procedure for making the Windows key pop up the start menu for the kde, fvwm or icewm desktops? __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yah

FreeS/WAN as debian package?

2000-03-19 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I trid to find the FreeS/Wan package ( http://www.freeswan.org ) in the debian non-us ditribution. However I was unable to find it. Are there any plans to include it? -- TIA Wojciech Zabolotny http://www.ise.pw.edu.pl

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2000-03-19 Thread oden
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Re: want to install debian over redhat

2000-03-19 Thread Chirag
- Original Message - From: Julie San Shang Lin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 11:17 PM Subject: want to install debian over redhat Did you try making installation boot disks and start installation from them? If you have enough disk space it is better to have a se

Re: gpm config for Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2

2000-03-19 Thread FIOL BONNIN Antonio
I have a similar problem. Everything is OK with X with config: Section "Pointer" Protocol"IMPS/2" Device "/dev/mouse" ZAxisMapping 4 5 EndSection With gpm, I have tried type=imps2. No good, but... when switching off gpm (/etc/init.d/gpm stop) with that config, and relaunchin

potato: mgetty and strange new behavior at startup

2000-03-19 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
I'm using mgetty on a modem so I can call in from elsewhere. I also have pppd set up to use the same modem to dial out. This arrangement was working quite well for a long time. Now at startup, mgetty is not releasing the modem, and if I kill it, init restarts it with the same behavior. The prob

Re: gpm config for Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2

2000-03-19 Thread ferret
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > What is the correct gpm configuration for a Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2 > > three-button wheel mouse ? I keep getting the following message in my > > logs: > > _possibly_ the right config may be "imps" (IntelliMousePS/2) - but that's > just an ide

Re: strange thing in pap-secrets

2000-03-19 Thread Josip Rodin
On Sun, Mar 19, 2000 at 04:54:14PM +1100, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On one of my servers, I had to put this in pap-secrets to allow dialins: > > # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd > * silly "" * > hamishsilly "" 203.14.18.2 > charles

MS Frontpage

2000-03-19 Thread Werner Reisberger
Does anybody know how to install Frontpage Server Extension on a Debian system with libc6? I was able to compile Apache with the frontpage module but the installation of the extension failed becaused the binary therein are compiled against libc5 and there aren't any sources @= I hate this stuff

Re: IP Masq'ing problem

2000-03-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have a very strange problem with IP masquerading. If I just set it up for > basic access (nothing unusual, just masquerading for the in-house LAN thru my > box which has a RoadRunner connection), everything is peacy - except that my > brother can't play Jedi Knight over the 'net. > > [...]

Re: no merit from using DMA-66?

2000-03-19 Thread Vachirasuk
Hi, I think I am trying to measure data transfer rate from harddisk. I have read UDMA-mini-HOWTO on LDP site and it also said "UDMA drives will give you between 10 and 15 MB/s using UDMA mode 2 (33 MB/s) or 4 (66 MB/s) enabled". If the DTR never gets higher than 33MB/sec then why use DMA-66, since

Re: Mounting Sound Blaster Pro CD-ROM

2000-03-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I just installed an old Sound Blaster Pro CD-ROM and compiled kernel > support for it. I think I have done everything right because the boot > messages list it at the right address and it seems to be named sbpcd-0. > It is also listed in /proc/devices as a block device. > > But I can't figure o

IP Masq'ing problem

2000-03-19 Thread David Grill Watson
I have a very strange problem with IP masquerading. If I just set it up for basic access (nothing unusual, just masquerading for the in-house LAN thru my box which has a RoadRunner connection), everything is peacy - except that my brother can't play Jedi Knight over the 'net. I know how to se

Re: Frozen, rsync

2000-03-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Antonio Rodriguez) wrote: > >Is there any way of knowing which packages from the frozen portion are > >already bug-free and completely ready to be included in the next release > >2.2? > > You can't be sure, but you can probably get a fairly good idea from

Mounting Sound Blaster Pro CD-ROM

2000-03-19 Thread David Densmore
I just installed an old Sound Blaster Pro CD-ROM and compiled kernel support for it. I think I have done everything right because the boot messages list it at the right address and it seems to be named sbpcd-0. It is also listed in /proc/devices as a block device. But I can't figure out how to mo

Re: alternatives to gnotepad+

2000-03-19 Thread Chirag
- Original Message - From: Sean Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Adam Shand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Debian User List Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 7:28 AM Subject: Re: alternatives to gnotepad+ > Hi I don't know anything about gnotepad+. But would vile(xvile) another vi clone a

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Ray" == Ray writes: Ray> On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: >> but it just flashes the characters >> >> 2FA: Ray> That's from the Master Boot Record program. >> I also tried booting with a floppy with IDE support, but it won't >>

Re: Networking

2000-03-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> I have a question about networking.. here's the situation: > > I have 2 Debian boxes with Ethernet cards, & respective cabling. I have an > on-campus Ethernet connection, with 1 static IP & 1 etherjack allocated to me. > Currently, I have the two PC's both online and configured to use the static

Re: SMB printing problems - solved

2000-03-19 Thread Stephan Hachinger
Hello! Yeah, I finally managed to set it up!!! I threw the magicfilter into the trashcan and tried apsfilter. Not the .deb, but the newest (5.2 I think) version from the author's homepage. And that can automatically be configured to print via smbclient! It was so easy. I recommend it to all of you

Re: gpm config for Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2

2000-03-19 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
> What is the correct gpm configuration for a Logitech MouseMan+ PS/2 > three-button wheel mouse ? I keep getting the following message in my > logs: _possibly_ the right config may be "imps" (IntelliMousePS/2) - but that's just an idea ... -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.si

Re: Is the following part of /etc/security/access.conf?

2000-03-19 Thread Lehel Bernadt
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, Shaul Karl wrote: > I have managed to mv files that I did not meant to. Can someone tell me if > the > following is part of /etc/security/access.conf? > > [03:49:10 /tmp]$ cat /etc/security/access.conf > #%PAM-1.0 > auth required pam_unix_auth.so > accountrequ

Re: swat for samba???

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Lavender
I just searched for swat in dselect and found it. I found it in usual debian sources. Are you using apt sources? I have Samba 2.0.5 listed in dselect. brian On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:19:45PM +0100, FreeMan wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to use swat on my Linux-box for easier configuration of >

Re: zip drive on linux

2000-03-19 Thread Taupter
"Arun V. Hodigere" wrote: > > Hi, > I was wondering if i could get a zip drive for linux. could > anybody throw some light on this as to where i could get this ... > Well, if you are using an internal model it will be easily mounted as /dev/hdX4, and nothing more. If you are using a paralel

Re: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Lavender
I just use xkeycaps to redefine the keys. Check dselect for it. Am I following this thread correctly? brian On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 04:55:23PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I've been rather fighting the inconsistancies myself. I might get to > fixing up console someday. > > Oh yeah, there

pass boot disk kernel parameters?

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Lavender
How do you create a boot disk where you can pass it kernel parameters such as disk=linear append = "hd=683,16,38 hd=64,32,202" I just grabbed the append specification from LILO stuff in the Running Linux book [129]. The book says how to add it in lilo, but gives no indication for putting the info

Re: RealPlayer, frozen and frustration

2000-03-19 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now that I've upgraded to frozen, though, rvplayer5.0 always produces > a segmentation fault; G2 has expired; and the performance I get with > RealPlayer 7 (on the files that it will accept) is not great (it > doesn't seem to handle buffering very well). > > This doesn'

strange thing in pap-secrets

2000-03-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Hi, On one of my servers, I had to put this in pap-secrets to allow dialins: # Every regular user can use PPP and has to use passwords from /etc/passwd * silly "" * hamish silly "" 203.14.18.2 charles silly "" 203.14.18.2 without the particular user/IP lines, it woul

Re: Promise Ultra 66

2000-03-19 Thread Brian Lavender
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 02:34:16PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen Ray" wrote: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 21:32:35 -0800, Brian Lavender wrote: > > but it just flashes the characters > > > > 2FA: > > That's from the Master Boot Record program. I guess you are correct about this, because I took the drive an

ppp -- unauthorized remote IP address

2000-03-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
Setting up a new dialin PPP server, and getting "unauthorized remote IP address" upon dialin (from Win95/98). Had this problem last week and fixed it by editing the pap-secrets file, but the same trick hasn't worked this time. Here's the options file: ms-dns 203.14.18.1 ms-dns 203.63.216.19 async

Re: Desktop

2000-03-19 Thread Percival
You do have to edit configuration file. Look in /usr/doc/gnome-core/README.Debian (actually, it probably exists in each of the /urs/doc/gnome* dirs). It tells you how to do it through .xinitrc or with xdm. Gnome should work wiht all of those windows managers (are there window managers that D

Desktop

2000-03-19 Thread Sandy Shapiro
First, I want to thank all who helped me install my printer. Running magicfilterconfig was the anwser. Now I would like to know how to enable the GNOME desktop. It came with my Debian/GNU Linux package, and I tried using "dselect." So far I have several window managers available: fvwm95, olwm, ic

RealPlayer, frozen and frustration

2000-03-19 Thread mcclosk
A day or two ago I took the plunge and upgraded to frozen. A few small glitches, but they were easily dealt with and mostly I was very pleased by how smooth and how straightforward the upgrade process was. Thanks and praise to the developers. I have one problem however. I had three versions of R

Re: Networking

2000-03-19 Thread Ron Rademaker
I'm kinda in a similar situtation as (if there are any errrors in this txte it's because I'm am currently drunk) you are. What i have is one computer that is my server and a secind thgat is my workstation (s3erver p100 and workstaionathlon 500). On my workstaion I use both linux ad windshit, IP ma

Re: Unresolved symbols potato and kernel 2.0.36

2000-03-19 Thread Percival
Don't upgrade unless you have to. I always have to remind myself of that - if my machine is working and I can do the tasks I need to do, even though there is a new fangled a super-cool version of my software, I don't have to install it. I still need to remind myself. That said, I just instal

Unresolved symbols potato and kernel 2.0.36

2000-03-19 Thread Jonathan Markevich
I suppose it's the height of naivite to expect an answer about Debian around here, but here goes... Once again... I upgraded to Potato. Yes, stupid, but I'm really really tired of waiting. The upgrade thought it a great idea to remove my working alsa-modules package and replace it with... NOT

Networking

2000-03-19 Thread mcmi0037
I have a question about networking.. here's the situation: I have 2 Debian boxes with Ethernet cards, & respective cabling. I have an on-campus Ethernet connection, with 1 static IP & 1 etherjack allocated to me. Currently, I have the two PC's both online and configured to use the static IP, 160.9

Re: SMTP password

2000-03-19 Thread Emil Soleyman-Zomalan
> there isn't a debian sendmail 8.10 package yet but there is the sasl > packages (libsasl7 and libsasl-dev). Actually there is a debian package of sendmail 8.10. You can find it at http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/mail/sendmail.html -- Emil Soleyman-Zomalan

Re: SMTP password

2000-03-19 Thread Adam Shand
> There were no other way. Were can I get sendmail 8.10 and the sasl > patches? there isn't a debian sendmail 8.10 package yet but there is the sasl packages (libsasl7 and libsasl-dev). download sendmail source from www.sendmail.org and there is some good info on how to make it all work in the d

Teac USB Floppy Drive

2000-03-19 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I just bought an I-Opener, and I need to get a floppy drive for it. Teac sells an external USB floppy drive (the Teac FD05PU), but I'm not sure it will work. It's for iMac's, does this make any difference? Thanks, Cameron Matheson

Re: Printing trouble

2000-03-19 Thread John Pearson
On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 10:39:38AM +0530, K. Sudheesh wrote > > Dear Friends, > > I have installed the Debian GNU/Linux 2.1 distribution on my 486 > machine called "sarasvati.nio.org" with 32MB RAM. This has a local HP > LaserJet 4M+ printer attatched to it over a serial port. The printer

Is the following part of /etc/security/access.conf?

2000-03-19 Thread Shaul Karl
I have managed to mv files that I did not meant to. Can someone tell me if the following is part of /etc/security/access.conf? [03:49:10 /tmp]$ cat /etc/security/access.conf #%PAM-1.0 auth required pam_unix_auth.so accountrequired pam_unix_acct.so password required pam_un

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2000-03-19 Thread Des Keane
Send me what you have on.  

Re: Segmentation faults in dpkg

2000-03-19 Thread dan
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:12:01PM -0800, Bart Friederichs generated a stream of 1s and 0s: > Hi, > > Here another one from the guy that can't get Debian installed due to a bad > PC (I think). When I run dselect and it starts installing all goes well > until one of the packages gets a segfau

Re: XEmacs use 'Alt' as 'Meta'

2000-03-19 Thread ferret
I've been rather fighting the inconsistancies myself. I might get to fixing up console someday. Oh yeah, there's something called ICCCM which xemacs follows under X which among other things describes a method (IMO the Right Way) to consistantly read and interpret keypresses. Basically (going f

Fw: netscape

2000-03-19 Thread Beavis
> i tried running it frm the command line a got: > can't load library libXt.so.6 > > u would think it would install everything it needs! > > any ideas, should i dslect and install it or does anyone have a good source > for ti? > > thabkx again > > > - Original Message - > From: Beavis > To: