Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

I have no problems with the S3 Trio64V+ at 1024x768 -16/24bit but it may be because I had 4 meg ram and upgraded to 8meg latterly still using it on a 'passed over' machine. On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:29:07PM +0200, Stefan Bellon wrote: > Hi everybody! > > Does anybody have a XF86Config fi

Re: [fox@xs4all.nl: Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"]

It's buggy, you can only "share" mp3's, I often try to download a few songs only to get "error" so I can only assume that their database isn't kept updated very often at all. I can only compare it to gnutella under linux, which is also buggy but I like how it's distributed and not limited to mp3 fi

Re: plip installation (Host name lookup failure)

Hi, I re-ran the installation, and now things are working fine. After a 900% ram upgrade (4MB -> 36) and a fresh potato installation, this old '486 laptop is running better than ever! Mon, Jul 31, 2000 at 11:09:38PM -0600, David Karlin wrote: > Hello, > I'm doing an installation from the potato f

Linux client through MS Proxy Server 2.0

Hi guys, Finally, I have found the answer to my problem: "Acessing the Internet with a Potato box via MS Proxy Server 2.0". Here it is:- MS Proxy Server basically allows 3 types of authentication, namely : Anonymous, Basic and NTLM (also known as NT challenge/response). The first speaks for itse

Re: uninstalling staroffice

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 03:09:04PM -0700, jojo zero wrote: > How can I uninstall staroffice? it's taking too much space. There is an unstall script provided and documented in the manual. -- Karsten M. Self http://www.netcom.com/~kmself Evangelist, Opensales, Inc.http://

Re: Backing up a Linux system

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:42:17PM -0700, Krzys Majewski wrote: > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:28:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Debian Potato (Frozen) with Slink KDE. > > > > > > I want to be able to backup my linux system to scsi t

RE: What do I have to do to get my server running?

Hi! Have you RTFM? Ok..okhere goes: *I am assuming you have Samba up and running properly* i.e. the smbd and nmbd daemons are running (check this using ps aux). 1. Configure your "smb.conf" in /etc/sambaI usually use Samba Web Administration Tool (SWAT), which allows you to configur

Problems with duplicate sendmail.cf entries

I'm having a problem getting duplicate sendmail.cf entries when running sendmailconfig. I've defined the following lines at the end of my sendmail.mc: # privacy flags O PrivacyOptions=goaway These lines are below the "## Custom configurations below (will be preserved)" entry, which is where I w

Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > OK, it seems to download now, though I still get the fopen() errors. > I like the gnapster interface but things like this, I hate to say, > make Windows look good at the expense of linux.. -chris Yup. Hmm. I downloaded the source, an

Re: Distribution Download

When I was at school and behind a firewall...BulletProof FTP worked fine for dowloading...see if that works for ya. Justin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I want to download the entire distribution of linux from ftp.debian.org. > What (windows) program should I use for this purpose? I mean, I want to

RE: tecra bootdisk

On 03-Aug-2000 Richard Black wrote: > Hi all > > I am trying to make a new boot disk for a Woody system on a Toshiba > Satellite. I run mkboot, and all looks good...except when I try to use > the disk it just freezes. > > When I first installed debian (slink) I had to use a tecra rescue disk. >

uninstalling staroffice

How can I uninstall staroffice? it's taking too much space. _ Get a free @mschumacher.com email address ---> http://www.mschumacher.com

tecra bootdisk

Hi all I am trying to make a new boot disk for a Woody system on a Toshiba Satellite. I run mkboot, and all looks good...except when I try to use the disk it just freezes. When I first installed debian (slink) I had to use a tecra rescue disk. Does this mean that mkboot won't work? I have also

Re: Fetchmail isn't working the way it should.

Do you have the "keep" option in your .fetchmailrc? Remove it and your mail should be deleted from the server. -- Andrew

Re: Fetchmail isn't working the way it should.

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:02:19PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have recently setup Fetchmail as a demon polling 3 mail servers > every five minutes when I'm online. Wow, that's quite frequent. > It downloads the mail without problems but it doesn't delete it > from the servers after downl

Re: Distribution Download

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 05:51:39PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No I'm not crazy. Just the potato and woody bin for i386. I think I'm > almost setting up CuteFtp to bypass the firewall. After all, I have up to > 24 Gb of free disk space. If you experience problems with FTP, try the "pass

Fetchmail isn't working the way it should.

I have recently setup Fetchmail as a demon polling 3 mail servers every five minutes when I'm online. It downloads the mail without problems but it doesn't delete it from the servers after downloading. I do not have 'keep' in any of the user lines in .fetchmailrc. I have even tried putting 'noke

Re: Distribution Download

No I'm not crazy. Just the potato and woody bin for i386. I think I'm almost setting up CuteFtp to bypass the firewall. After all, I have up to 24 Gb of free disk space.

Re: t-dsl

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:34:08AM -0600, Arthur H. Edwards wrote: > I'm a bit confused. On a normal dial-up I have been using PPP and do > have a static IP address. If ADSL is using PPP what about DSL prevents > PPP from doing the same thing? Dialup is point-to-point, hence the natural applicatio

Re: t-dsl

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 08:06:42PM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote: > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Smart people *can* get IPs that haven't been assigned to them, and > > it's a PITA to root them out. PPPoE, while a hack, addresses this > > concern for providers. I wish we used it.

Re: Distribution Download

<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I want to download the entire distribution of linux from ftp.debian.org. > What (windows) program should I use for this purpose? I mean, I want to > select the directory ftp.debian.org/debian and download it all with just > one click. I tried CuteFtp, but it does not d

Re: internet connection sharing

Joseph de los Santos wrote: > > Hi, > > Windows 98's ICS feature is really cool. Does debian support ICS too? if so, > can someone tell me or point me to some documentation on how to do this? just > 2 home computers... a debian box and a win 98 box over a 56k dialup connection > to be used fo s

internet connection sharing

Hi, Windows 98's ICS feature is really cool. Does debian support ICS too? if so, can someone tell me or point me to some documentation on how to do this? just 2 home computers... a debian box and a win 98 box over a 56k dialup connection to be used fo simultaneous surfing and (possibly email)

Re: Backing up a Linux system

How would I go about reinstalling the packages in the event of disaster? What if my packages are a combination of slink, potato, etc.? -chris On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:28:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Debian Potato (Frozen) wi

Re: [fox@xs4all.nl: Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"]

Out of curiousity, what don't you like about napster? One thing that strikes me as potentially lame is that you can only upload my files while I'm running the client..but I guess that's the windows way (howbout a napsterd with sophisticated access control etc.?) Napster struck me as pre

Distribution Download

I want to download the entire distribution of linux from ftp.debian.org. What (windows) program should I use for this purpose? I mean, I want to select the directory ftp.debian.org/debian and download it all with just one click. I tried CuteFtp, but it does not deal good with proxies authenticatio

Re: What do I have to do to get my server running?

At 12:15 2000/08/03 -0600, you wrote: I'm turning my Linux into a server for my family's to Windoze machines, but I'm not sure what exactly to do. I've installed the Samba packages, and compiled SMB support into the kernel. I've got my NE2000 working, so now I just need to know how to connect

Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"

OK, it seems to download now, though I still get the fopen() errors. I like the gnapster interface but things like this, I hate to say, make Windows look good at the expense of linux.. -chris On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Michael Soulier wrote: > On 2 Aug 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote: > > > Anybody else h

Re: [fox@xs4all.nl: Re: gnapster won't download: "fopen: No such file or directory"]

On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Rev GRC Sperry wrote: > ermm, no it ain't. Please read the second half of what you quote below: >Today the court of appeals stayed the judge's order to shut down >Napster until they consider our appeal, probably in September. > > Not that I think napster does it's job

Re: Broken X

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:43:47PM +, Philip Downer wrote: > > If anyone could help me with this I'd appreciate it. I've just > installed debian potato test-cycle-1 (some cds I bought at UK Linux > Expo 2000). However whenever I run X I get the following message: > > Fatal Server Error: canno

Re: find question

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:11:38PM +0400, Alexey Vyskubov wrote: > > % find `pwd` \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.aux" \) -exec 'rm {}' ';' > > find: rm /home/shao/report/main.log: No such file or directory [snipped Alexey's solution] It's nice to use xargs together with find. (You probably know thi

Re: disk partition using fips

In the meantime, I actually worked out a crummy, lowtech solution to the problem. I happened to have an old version of a Windows disk tool called NUTS AND BOLTS by McAffee. If you go into the disk defragmenting section of this toolset, it shows a detailed display of what is in all of the blocks on

Broken X

If anyone could help me with this I'd appreciate it. I've just installed debian potato test-cycle-1 (some cds I bought at UK Linux Expo 2000). However whenever I run X I get the following message: Fatal Server Error: cannot open mouse (No such file or directory) I decided to create the directo

Re: holly crap!

Hello, I wanted to drop this back to the list and thank EVERYONE who took a moment to reply to my major oopsie I have never done something to was so destructive and so very fast - yup, linux is truly a power OS.. I did loose it all. I was going to copy the whole hd, so I installed a new

Re: find question

> % find `pwd` \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.aux" \) -exec 'rm {}' ';' > find: rm /home/shao/report/main.log: No such file or directory It tries to execute command rm[space]/home/shao/report/main.log. Of course there is no such command. You should execute 'rm' with filename as a parameter; so write

Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stefan Bellon wrote: [1024x768 on S3 Trio64V+] > > Isn't such a resolution possible with this card? > I have S3 Trio64V+ in a EonTronics Renoir card, originally with 1MB, > lately upgraded to 2MB. I have 1152x7??x16bpp.

Re: Alpha install

Chad Dale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I just went through the install for potato on an AlphaServer 400 4/166 > system, and everything went fine, but when I reboot it does not take me into > the OS, I just get the SRM prompt again. > > I try booting from the floppy again with > > >>> boot dva0 -

Re: ppp connection speed

On 3 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Karsten M. Self writes: > > The raw information is available under /proc/net,... > > That is just the speed of the connection from the computer to the modem. > It is generally much higher then the modem bit rate (not baud rate. higher rate useful for on the

What do I have to do to get my server running?

Hey, I'm turning my Linux into a server for my family's to Windoze machines, but I'm not sure what exactly to do. I've installed the Samba packages, and compiled SMB support into the kernel. I've got my NE2000 working, so now I just need to know how to connect to the network. Any help would be

Palm packages

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi debians, Looking into the local package database with dpkg -l "*palm*" I found two packages concerning palm, namel gcc-mk68-palmos anf binutils-m68k-palmos. If I understand weel, they allows to install a cross-compiler for palmos. Now, doing dsel

Re: ppp connection speed

kmself@ix.netcom.com (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:55:51PM +0200, Philippe MICHEL wrote: > > > > > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Philippe MICHEL wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I am using Debian slink, and

Re: noise from monitor, HELP!

Oh, I forgot to post this... only sent it to John. - Original Message - From: "Stephan Hachinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Pearson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 12:49 PM Subject: Re: noise from monitor, HELP! > Hello! > > > > > Now all of a > > > sudden I ge

Re: ppp connection speed

Karsten M. Self writes: > The raw information is available under /proc/net,... That is just the speed of the connection from the computer to the modem. It is generally much higher then the modem bit rate (not baud rate. There is an AT command to tell your modem to report the bit rate and a chat o

Re: X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

Stefan Bellon wrote: > > Hi everybody! > > Does anybody have a XF86Config file for the S3 Trio64V+ card? I've > managed to get a 800x600 running, but I'd like to increase to 1024x768. > Whenever I modify the XF86Config (with XF86Setup) to contain a 1024x768 > ModeLine, the server dies when trying

find question

Hi, can somebody help me with this one? % find `pwd` \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.aux" \) /home/shao/report/main.log /home/shao/report/main.aux /home/shao/report/title.aux /home/shao/report/abstract.aux % find `pwd` \( -name "*.log" -o -name "*.aux" \) -exec 'rm {}' ';' find

Re: System locking

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:42:10PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > > some weeks ago, my system began to lock. Everything locks -- > including the keyboard (so the SysRq key doesn't help). > > I've bought a new CPU fan, becuase I thought it could be the > problem... But that di

Re: gzipped readmes in /usr/doc/*

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 06:20:29PM -0500, Kent West wrote: [Only HTML] Cut it out, would you please... Sven -- Windows does *not* have bugs. It just develops random features.

Re: Adapted AHA1542 Problems.

At 11:11 2000/08/03 -0600, you wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:53:41AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: > So, I tried to fix that with a boot parameter, "aha1542=0x130", but that > doesn't seem to have done anything either. each time i re-install windows on the box (every 6 months, tops), it fscks

Re: Adapted AHA1542 Problems.

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:53:41AM -0400, Adam Scriven wrote: > already, cut the size in half), and the module's available in Modconf, but > I get a "Device or resource busy", and the installation fails. i used to have the same problem. > So, I tried to fix that with a boot parameter, "aha1542=

Alpha install

I just went through the install for potato on an AlphaServer 400 4/166 system, and everything went fine, but when I reboot it does not take me into the OS, I just get the SRM prompt again. I try booting from the floppy again with >>> boot dva0 -file linux -flag "root=/dev/sda2" and it loads the

Re: Fw: Free Linux Journal T-Shirt!

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 08:58:46PM +0200, "Jürgen A. Erhard" wrote: > > "kmself" == kmself writes: > > [...] > > kmself> It's also worth noting that Slackware wasn't listed, nor > kmself> were any of the *BSDs. > > BSD? Uhm, Karsten, last I checked, it was still the "Linux" journa

Re: Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:34:35AM -0500, Bolan Meek wrote: > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > > On 02 Aug 2000, Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On topics arisen from this discussion, > > > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > > ...BTW, please refrain from sending to _both_ the list and me, > > > >

Re: new PC disk problem?

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:27:59AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I received a new Dell computer last week, and after a backup of > my system tar reported problems with one file. While trying to > read that file, I get I/O errors: > > hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete Da

Re: ppp connection speed

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 01:55:51PM +0200, Philippe MICHEL wrote: > > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Philippe MICHEL wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I am using Debian slink, and a standard modem/pppd connection to my > > > provider. > > > > > > Eve

Re: new PC disk problem?

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 09:35:03AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:27:59AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > > I received a new Dell computer last week, and after a backup of > > > my system tar reported problems with one file. W

Re: Network Printing, from an Apple, to Debian, one small? problem

Adam Scriven wrote: > The problem is, there's no PPD file that I can find for it. You need a ppd file for Apple Laser Writers, not for Canon's. "LaserWriter Personal NTR"(APLWNTR1.PPD) should work. If you don't have it already, you can download it from:

Re: System locking

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 12:42:10PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > > Hello, > > some weeks ago, my system began to lock. Everything locks -- > including the keyboard (so the SysRq key doesn't help). > > I've bought a new CPU fan, becuase I thought it could be the > problem... But that di

Re: disk partition using fips

Since you have Norton Utilities, be aware that the Image program that comes with it will typically keep a couple files at the end of a partition. These files will be in the root directory and have names like image.bak, image.idx, image.dat. If you have those they can be safely deleted - Image will

Re: holly crap!

Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Help, PLEASE HELP > > I've done somethig very bad.. I did: > > rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing > > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there > ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? > > thanks . . . The Ext2fs Undele

Re: holly crap!

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > I've done somethig very bad.. I did: > > > > rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing > > > > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there > > ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? > > I guess you were in home when you d

System locking

Hello, some weeks ago, my system began to lock. Everything locks -- including the keyboard (so the SysRq key doesn't help). I've bought a new CPU fan, becuase I thought it could be the problem... But that didn't help. I also thought it could be memory, but I have been compiling kernels (s

Re: Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)

Frankly, I'd appreciate it if you guys would stop CC:'ing *me* in this discussion, which is *way* sidetracked from what I wrote.

Cc: to poster (was Re: OT: less v. more...)

Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > On 02 Aug 2000, Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On topics arisen from this discussion, > > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > > ...BTW, please refrain from sending to _both_ the list and me, > > > I read the list. ... > > One may assume that those whose names one sees o

Adapted AHA1542 Problems.

Hey again. I've got an old ISA AHA-1542CF SCSI card in my new fileserver. The bios for the card boots up OK, and I can see all devices on it (just a zip drive right now, ID 6), but the card isn't being seen in Debian. I compiled the driver as a module (I've recompiled a much nicer kernel alre

Eterm upgrade

I just updated from eterm_0.8.10-10 to eterm_0.9.0-7 last night. Although the new version plays much more nicely with WindowMaker, the process has been somewhat less than pleasant, what with changes to configuration options and even the name of the theme files changeing, but I've got it mostly wor

Re: disk partition using fips

Quoting SDI " Semiconductor Instruments\ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > So I duely ran noton and defragged, which put all the stuff in the first > 10% of the disk. > But, looking on the map , the last sector had hidden files on it. > So I turned on visualization in Win 98ofhidden file types.and system > f

the finer points of pump configuration (dhcp & cable modem)

Pump seems to be working fine from root's command line without any config customization at all; now I'd like to know the debianly correct & polished way to run it. Some of the questions I haven't found answered in the documentation are: Where do I specify that it should run when the system is boo

Network Printing, from an Apple, to Debian, one small? problem

Ok, thanks to all the great suggestions, I can now see the Canon on the Mac+, and it tries to print. The problem is, there's no PPD file that I can find for it. Does this mean that I'm screwed? I've searched the canon site, I downloaded the canon set from Adobe, but there's nothing that even lo

Re: apt-get & byte compile problem

Peter S Galbraith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I really doubt that any files are being deleted. Usually, .el > files stay put in someplace like > > /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ > > and byte-compiled versions go in: > > /usr/share/emacs/19.34/site-lisp/ > /usr/share/emacs/20.6/site-lisp

Re: new PC disk problem?

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:27:59AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > > I received a new Dell computer last week, and after a backup of > > my system tar reported problems with one file. While trying to > > read that file, I get I/O errors: > > > > hda: read_intr:

Re: cos() in math.h ?

Hi I was bit by this "bug" in my first real C program. 1986? I looked HARD. I had to figure it out from the manuals. With C not including some header files results in a default prototype being used, int name(...); which may get you linked ok, but does no checking. ANSI C is almost C++ The au

Re: Console Problem

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 04:37:17PM +0900, Jack Morgan wrote: > I'm having with my console nd running aplications (e.g. mutt,lynx) > I'm using a laptop with 800x600 resolution, but i'm getting > 640x480. How can I increase the resolution. Running potato. with framebuffer? moritz -- /* Morit

Re: Man -K

Piotr Krukowiecki writes: > But they don't. And you can't describe man which has 100 pages or more in > one line. Of course you. More importantly, you can put the keywords that people are most likely to search for in that one line. The man foramt really ought to include a 'keywords' line, though

Console Problem

I'm having with my console nd running aplications (e.g. mutt,lynx) I'm using a laptop with 800x600 resolution, but i'm getting 640x480. How can I increase the resolution. Running potato. TIA Jack Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ppp connection speed

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Philippe MICHEL wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using Debian slink, and a standard modem/pppd connection to my > > provider. > > > > Everything works well since years (I used the same config with Slakware) > > > > But how/w

e-mail errors

Hi all, I have a domain (domain.com) and want redirect all e-mail errors from inexistentes e-mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to my mail ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I'm using exim and potato. Thanks, Paulo Henrique

Re: Man -K

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Fabrizio Polacco wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:54:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > > > > > I wonder why debian have man without -K option (searching > > > through body of manpage, not only title), unlike RH or Suse >

Re: ppp connection speed

On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 10:48:32AM +0200, Philippe MICHEL wrote: > Hello, > > I am using Debian slink, and a standard modem/pppd connection to my > provider. > > Everything works well since years (I used the same config with Slakware) > > But how/where can I see with which speed the modem has b

Re: Man -K

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 01:54:42PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, Piotr Krukowiecki wrote: > > > I wonder why debian have man without -K option (searching > > through body of manpage, not only title), unlike RH or Suse > > RedHat uses a different program. But Suse uses the

Re: Man -K

On 2 Aug 2000, John Hasler wrote: > Andrew Sullivan writes: > > I thought the original poster was talking about a _full body_ search of the > > man pages. Do RH and SuSE really do that? Certainly, apropos doesn't -- > > it searches the description (at least on my system). > > Which would be fin

X with a S3 Trio64V+ card

Hi everybody! Does anybody have a XF86Config file for the S3 Trio64V+ card? I've managed to get a 800x600 running, but I'd like to increase to 1024x768. Whenever I modify the XF86Config (with XF86Setup) to contain a 1024x768 ModeLine, the server dies when trying to start it. Isn't such a resoluti

Sound speed problems

Hi everybody! I have installed a happily running woody on my notebook. Now I've installed potato on my girlfriend's computer (a Compaq Presario 9500 with Pentium 120 MHz processor and 40 MB RAM). In general things are fine except two points: too small resolution (other topic) and sound. The oth

disk partition using fips

I would dearly like to repartition a drive on my systemto give me MORE spacefor linux. So I duely ran noton and defragged, which put all the stuff in the first 10% of the disk. But, looking on the map , the last sector had hidden files on it. So I turned on visualization in Win 98ofhidden file typ

re: cdrom ... and alsa

cd-rw discs require different laser frequencies in order to be read (that's why you cant use them in most audio cd players and dvd players) most new computer cd drives implement multi-read functionality. i think it was multi-read.. i dunno.. i always get the terms mixed up.. =) if you look at

ppp connection speed

Hello, I am using Debian slink, and a standard modem/pppd connection to my provider. Everything works well since years (I used the same config with Slakware) But how/where can I see with which speed the modem has been connected ?? thanks, -- - Philippe MICHEL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - [EMAIL PRO

Re: Installing packages without manpages and docs

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 10:34:12 +1000 , "Kenrick, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >IIRC Slink minimum install is circa 30 MB > >Would it be worth a try installing minimal Slink first, >then apt-get upgrade;apt-get dist-upgrade ? No. The man pages are in the packages themselves. Your approach wouldn'

Re: new PC disk problem?

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:27:59AM -0400, Peter S Galbraith wrote: > I received a new Dell computer last week, and after a backup of > my system tar reported problems with one file. While trying to > read that file, I get I/O errors: > > hda: read_intr: status=0x59 { DriveReady SeekComplete Data

Re: some questions

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 09:46:41PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2000, David Karlin wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:28:52AM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > 1. When using a network adapter whose driver is compiled as a module - > > > where does this module get loaded? > > >

Re: cdrom

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 02:23:54PM -0400, Andy The King wrote: > Hello! > > I just recently purchased a copy of Debian GNU/Linux 2.1. Although my > friend told me that I can just down loaded for free from the web. So I > installed it on my machine and everything runs well except for that my > cd

Re: Backing up a Linux system

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 05:28:14PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Debian Potato (Frozen) with Slink KDE. > > I want to be able to backup my linux system to scsi tape (nst0) > such that, if my hard drive falls into little pieces one bright > sunny day, I can boot from a rescue floppy and restor

Re: t-dsl

"Arthur H. Edwards" wrote: > I'm a bit confused. On a normal dial-up I have been using PPP and do > have a static IP address. If ADSL is using PPP what about DSL prevents > PPP from doing the same thing? actually its up to the radius or router of the isp to supply an ip. They can use a fixed ip

Re: holly crap!

> > I've done somethig very bad.. I did: > > > > rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing > > > > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there > > ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? There is a package in unstable called 'recover'. Description: Undelete files o

Re: OT: less v. more & CCing

> "Gerfried" == Gerfried Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Gerfried> I go another way: I included now a header that should Gerfried> be respected by most MUAs: Mail-CopiesTo: never The "mail-copies-to" header does sound good, but I have mixed feelings as to if it really solves the pr

Re: holly crap!

On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 11:13:04PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: > > Help, PLEASE HELP > > > I've done somethig very bad.. I did: > > rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing > > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there > ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /ho

Re: Getting debian CD to recognize SCSI disk(s)

On Sat, Aug 02, 1980 at 08:46:24AM -0700, Ed Burke wrote: Fix your system date. >I found quite by accident that I can boot from CD but the > procedure does NOT recognize my scsi drive(s). According to the logon > message I have two drives but 1 doesn't seem to have b

Re: more on syslogd & remote logging

ok, i did see some stuff on it when using syslog-ng, i'll play around more with that tomorrow night -- thanks!! nate On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Mark Brown wrote: brooni >On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 10:45:59PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: brooni > brooni >> things in /etc/syslog.conf and the log file is

Re: holly crap!

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there > > ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? > > I guess you were in home when you did that. > Well, nope. Unless you made backups, whatever you deleted is now gone. It

Re: OT: less v. more & CCing

On 02 Aug 2000, Bolan Meek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On topics arisen from this discussion, > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > ...BTW, please refrain from sending to _both_ the list and me, > > I read the list. ... > > One may assume that those whose names one sees often > are subuscribed, but how to

Re: holly crap!

> I've done somethig very bad.. I did: > > rm * /var/spool/fax/outgoing > > I was user not root (little sigh), but I lost a lot of data.. Is there > ANYWAY to recover all the lost files in /home/me ??? I guess you were in home when you did that. Well, nope. Unless you made backups, whatever you

Re: your mail

Hi, You want to: bash$ export http_proxy="http://msproxy.on.windows.box:portnumber"; You probably also want to set ftp_proxy to the same thing. On Tue, 1 Aug 2000, CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote: > Hi guys! > > I have been searching high and low for the answer but no such luck.I am > att

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