Re: gpm and X mouse conflicts

1996-08-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
to use the -R option? I didn't have to under > slackware. > I suspect that slackware runs the daemon with the -R option and sets up X to use /dev/gpmdata. Try it ;-) Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz

mail-delivery-agents?

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
mail. If that is not available in the mail-delivery-agent, then point me to a package that will work with the target mail-delivery-agent. Thanks in advance for any help, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1

Re: More info on PPP problem

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
ppp is loaded, and I have set up the files > /etc/ppp/options > /etc/ppp/chatscript > It's just that it doesn't dial. > What's wrong? > I might help if we could see those two scripts :-) Dwarf --

Re: PPP not in kernel?

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
the kernel. > What's wrong with my setup? > As far as I know, PPP must still be compiled as a module, not built-in. Try M instead of Y for your response. It should work then. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Schee

Re: X and mouse

1996-08-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
ure this is a PS/2 mouse? Does it have the cylindrical connector or the trapazoidal 9 pin DIN? I'm not sure why the kernel says it found a PS mouse, but it sounds like you want the serial protocal. Luck, Dwarf ---- -- aka Dale

Re: "module not found"

1996-08-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
e, run depmod and try to reboot again. Hope this helps, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

gcc and libg++27

1996-06-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
my ignorance. Do I need to do any pre-processing here? Or have I just left out a necessary switch for gcc? Any help would be appreciated. TIA, Dwarf ---------- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257

Re: kernal-image-2.0.0-0 + stuff...

1996-06-30 Thread Dale Scheetz
nswer session that results in a properly configured system. (I believe you must install at least the server package you will need before you can install the base packages. Don't forget the fonts.) --- Hope this helps, Dwarf -

Re: Debian-1.1 "Packages" file sync problem

1996-06-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
t name is dpkg-scanpackages. Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: DEBIAN-Re: logging in takes ages

1996-06-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
don't remember which, but cron was among them) packages, the problem went away. Seems to be some longwinded bookkeeping going on. Try upgrading the admin section and see if that fixes it. Luck, Dwarf ------ aka Dale Scheetz

Re: linking with termcap under 1.1

1996-06-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
(All else is working smoothly.) > Replacing -ltermcap with -lncurses should work fine. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE

Re: Installing Debian (fresh) from Linux????

1996-06-19 Thread Dale Scheetz
system you can boot into and install the rest of the packages. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mai

Re: Debian Linux Distribution Release 1.1 Now Available

1996-06-18 Thread Dale Scheetz
. If you used my script to do the first upgrade, just run it again. It knows when a package is already installed and only installs the upgrades. Luck, Dwarf ------ aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-02

Re: 1.1 problems

1996-06-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
-- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

Re: critical :) nethack question

1996-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
Kevin? Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

Re: pine 3.94's Copyright

1996-06-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
oublesome about the new copyright (Bruce?) you may look for 3.94 as soon as I can get some time to build it. Luck, Dwarf ---- -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software

Re: Unidentified subject!

1996-06-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
o' says that I am using the ttyp0 console. How do I switch to it? > Try the first VC above the assigned ones. For Debian this is F7. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257

Re: debian v1.1 probs

1996-06-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
se package that is not free. Check the copyright in all cases if you want to put them on a cd or something. Enjoy, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax

Re: debian v1.1 probs

1996-06-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

stty vs setserial

1996-06-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

Re: Packages need libc.so.4

1996-06-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
it? > This is in the libc4 package in section devel. Luck, Dwarf ------ aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
stop bits alone? I can put the above command into .bashrc, but this will not fix login and I will still get the bunged password prompt. Looks like it's time to talk with Guy :-) Thanks for all the help, Dwarf -- aka

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Here's the 'ls -a /usr/lib/terminfo' Ooops, how dull of me :-) > > Why did you send me that? The BUGS file is probably in one of those > subdirs. Since I don't w

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
t is only login and bash that don't seem to talk right. I don't see how getty could send slow enough to not error and login not. They are both using the same driver, aren't they? Thanks for the idea, Dwarf ---- -- aka

Re: 1.1 upgrade?

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
This site is on-line from 10am til 2pm and 7pm til 10pm weekdays. I will make an anouncement when they get to the mirrors, after I move them. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexi

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Fri, 7 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I installed ncurses-term-1.9.9e-1.deb but when I do the toe above I get: > > > > infocmp: can't open terminfo file BUGS. > > toe is Table Of Entries. It just lists all the

Re: F77 has gone missing?

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Fri, 7 Jun 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dale Scheetz writes: > Dale> I just went back to working on Octave and don't seem to have F77 any > Dale> more. I have been keeping pretty up to date on the devel > Dale> section. Anyone know what happened to

Re: login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Guy Maor wrote: > On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > Thanks to Dirk and Guy, I got getty running on ttyS1 to a Data General > > terminal (ok, ok, but I got it for free. In fact I have 6 of them) but I > > still have problems. > > Ins

F77 has gone missing?

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
I just went back to working on Octave and don't seem to have F77 any more. I have been keeping pretty up to date on the devel section. Anyone know what happened to it? TIA, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz

login and bash on a hardwired terminal.

1996-06-07 Thread Dale Scheetz
does no good) What do I need to do to get login and bash to work? TIA, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters

getty-1.0-4

1996-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
. As you may note, I am trying to hook up a hardwired terminal to com2. Does anyone know how to do this with the programs installed by the getty package? Do I need to use something else to do this? TIA, Dwarf -- aka Dale Sc

Re: dpkg-1.1.5aout.deb ?

1996-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
n upgrading. I am usually on the air between 10am and 2pm and 7pm to 10pm on weekdays. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black C

Re: program to check *.deb

1996-06-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 6 Jun 1996, Lawrence Chim wrote: > Is there any program can check *.deb, something like theh tar -t for the > *.tar? > Try: dpkg --contents package-xxx.deb Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz

Re: Debian 1.1 man & more

1996-06-02 Thread Dale Scheetz
than more. Try it, you'll like it! Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

Re: PPP problem w/ 1.1 install

1996-06-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
Use depends, but make it depend on the appropriate version of libc and not on a particular kernel package. Thanks, Dwarf ---- -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software

Re: Self-Built Kernel Packages

1996-05-31 Thread Dale Scheetz
ey no longer do that, however, I have not been happy with the position taken by the package maintainer on these issues, so have been unwilling to try the newer packages (mostly because they are unnecessary to the functioning of my system) Later, Dwarf --------

Re: Bug#3144: octave fails to dynamically load functions

1996-05-28 Thread Dale Scheetz
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Re: Loading Modules

1996-05-27 Thread Dale Scheetz
ules for how to write an options line. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

Re: Upgrading 0.93 to R6 - problems

1996-05-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 26 May 1996, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to upgrade 0.93 to 1.1 according to Dale Scheetz' instrucions > but encounter a basic problem. (Posted on May 16th) > > My setup - an IDE disk used for booting and as root, a SCSI disk used to hold &g

Tex and metafont

1996-05-23 Thread Dale Scheetz
, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see wha

Re: Imake problems.

1996-05-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Mon, 20 May 1996, Stephen Early wrote: > On Mon, 20 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > I have tried to use imake on several packages recently. If I try xmkmf I > > get something like: > > > > imake -DUseInstalled -I/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config > > Imakef

Imake problems.

1996-05-20 Thread Dale Scheetz
eems to be responsible for imake and xmkmf. What else is there? Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mai

Re: X Windows

1996-05-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Thu, 16 May 1996, Stephen Early wrote: > On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > OK, so, I used xdm to start X and things work fine. When I exit fvwm2 I > > get a login prompt. Now, I want to shut down the server. > > > > A. I can find no xdm process

Re: X Windows

1996-05-17 Thread Dale Scheetz
work. Maybe it will work now that I have a good ps. Thanks, Dwarf ------ aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mai

Re: X Windows

1996-05-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
seeing a process id when I started xdm, but that was long ago and far away. TIA, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek

Re: octave

1996-05-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
l back to the a.out version from stable (1.1.1-1) until I can get the next version up and running. Soon, I hope :-) Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

Re: Instructions for upgrade to v1.1

1996-05-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
The following is the latest of my upgrade notes. The UpGrade script is slightly improved (it can now handle # comment lines). I have also included the, as yet not completely fixed, devel section list at the end of this document. It will upgrade you to a development system that will build a new kern

Changing display mode in X

1996-05-16 Thread Dale Scheetz
e out how to do that either. So, I have two questions: 1. What are the key strokes for changing graphics mode while in X. 2. What changes does config need to run a different mode at startup. TIA, Dwarf -- aka Dale Sc

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 15 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: > On Tue, 14 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, you mus edit the /etc/X11/fvwm/system.fvwmrc file yourself > > > to add the menu items. I don't know of any good menu editor but there > > > ma

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Kevin M Bealer wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > When I decide what I want to add, how do I hang it on the menu system? Is > > there a good user tutorial? In particular, I can start the xserver either > > as root or as a user

continuing netscape problems

1996-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
ectory' but they both result in a locked application. In one case I had to go out to the prompt to kill netscape (x windows was locked up tight) Anyone have any ideas? Is a purge and re-install likely to work? TIA, Dwarf -- ak

Re: X Windows

1996-05-15 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Tue, 14 May 1996, Carlo U. Segre wrote: > On Mon, 13 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > > > > (Reading database ... 13477 files and directories currently installed.) > > Preparing to replace netscape (using netscape-2.01-2.deb) ... > > Unpacking replaceme

Re: X Windows

1996-05-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
ok and usr/doc)? > > BTW, what does TIA mean? Thanks In Advance! :-) Dwarf ---- -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters

Re: X Windows

1996-05-14 Thread Dale Scheetz
r as a user, but I can't seem to do both. Once root cranks up the xserver, how does a user gain access to the server? TIA, Dwarf ---- -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software

X Windows

1996-05-13 Thread Dale Scheetz
IA, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

Re: New Upgrade notes for 1.1 beta testing

1996-05-12 Thread Dale Scheetz
mount -avt nonfs depends on the modules for filesystems (dos, sysv, > etc) If you don't want to move to a higher level kernel, then you don't want to upgrade modules, image, or source. You may not want to upgrade sysklogd although I had no trouble with it. Luck, Dwarf -

1.3.97 and flock errors

1996-05-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
er version of bash and try replacing it to see if the problem goes away. Anyone else have any ideas? I would hate to have to search the whole list with a reboot in between each downgrade. TIA, Dwarf -- aka Da

Re: uudecode?

1996-05-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
r has the matching package installed. >Grepping the Contents.gz file searches among all packages available, >whether or not they are installed. > What do you do if you don't have contents.gz? Later, Dwarf -- ak

New Upgrade notes for 1.1 beta testing

1996-05-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
The following is the latest update of my upgrade notes for moving from R6 to 1.1 Debian. Feel free to let me know if any errors are being propogated here. Some notes on installation of the Debian 1.1 Beta Release. The test bench for the information presented here is a Debian R6 installation. This

Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

1996-05-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
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Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

1996-05-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
g-1.1.5elf.deb package can be installed for use in the remaining installation. Once these upgrades have been made tracking the latest version of dpkg is advisable. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1

Re: upgrading from 0.93R6 to 1.1 beta

1996-05-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
s in that directory and then run > dselect on the packages in the binary directories. Very simple to > understand. > Works for me, as long as both the aout and the elf versions are available. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale

Re: uudecode?

1996-05-06 Thread Dale Scheetz
k, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you don't see what you want, just ask --

Re: various boot errors and module problems!

1996-05-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
During make config (second or third line) there is a line about config mod version or something to that effect. You want to choose no for this option then the modules should load correctly. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz

Re: 1.1 upgrade docco?

1996-05-01 Thread Dale Scheetz
list by the end of the week. Luck, Dwarf -- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 877-0257 Flexible Software Fax: NONE Black Creek Critters e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

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