3c503 Network card: Shared Memory??

1997-07-31 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Hello, I have a 3c503 Network card from 3Com which reports at boot time: 'REJUMPER FOR SHARED MEMORY' I have read that this is what I should do for this card, but have no idea of how to go about this, or even where to start looking. Is there a Howto, or does someone out there know the answer.

start-stop demon problems

1997-07-23 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Hello, I have a problem with the start-stop demon at bootup. Most demons start ok except the following: at cron sysklog xinet I know they haven't started as the message at boot up complains: No such file or Directory but neglects to tell me which file or directory it is looking for. All the

Re: One last thing before I pass out`

1997-07-22 Thread Johnny Stevenson
|You need to set the DISPLAY env variable to :0.0 once you are root. Nope. In this case, he should have done a xhost +, not a xhost -. - denies access, + allows it. The XAUTH* solution mailed earlier is a better one, though. Could someone mail me the XAUTH* solution mention. Thanks. --

mtools problem

1997-07-21 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Hello, After upgrading to Debian 1.3.1, I am now having a problem using some of the mtools operations. The command 'mdir' works but 'mcopy a:' and 'mdel a:' produce the following error: This command cannot operate on . or .. Does anyone have any suggestions, appart from mounting/unmounting the

Re: TKDesk: insufficient resources for operation

1997-07-18 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Peter S Galbraith wrote: Carlos Marcos Kakihara wrote: Hi, I'm using tkdesk_1.0b1-1.deb and I'm getting the following errors: [stress]:~$ tkdesk [1] 745 [stress]:~$ X Error of failed request: BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation) Major opcode of failed

Re: Xfree86-3.3 and S3V

1997-07-18 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Bob Clark wrote: A couple of months ago I convinced a friend ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) to change over from slackware to debian; and in turn convinced some other people to do the same. He was impressed (as I knew he would be) with debian until... he upgraded to Xfree-3.3, now X no longer works.

Problem: update-menu not working

1997-07-17 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Hello, I have no entry's in the menu's of fvwm2. I have just installed Debian 1.3.1 which is supposed to update the fvwm menus with all the packages installed on my machine. This has not happened. I searched and read through all the documentation I could find and found the command that is

Xprinter problem with StarOffice

1997-07-04 Thread Johnny Stevenson
I have Debian 1.2 and (successfully) installed StarOffice in /usr/local. I ran setup as a user successfully, with no errors reported. Each time I run swriter3 I get an error: Xprinter not found XPPATH incorrectly set. (or something very similar) I have XPPATH set to:

Window Manager Problem

1997-06-25 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Please can you help: I have a problem with the fvwm window manager, it cannot load libXpm.so.4. When I run startx, X starts and displays the grey screen, then drops back down to the terminal. I then tried running fvwm from the terminal and got an error: fvwm: couldnt load libXpm.so.4 I

Re: dselect X-front-end?

1997-05-13 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Wolfgang Bauer (WS) wrote: Is there a xwindows-front-end of dselect? I just wondered because Redhat has such a cute tool for setting up/installing the system made with Tcl/tk. It would be nice to have a tcl/tk program as an extention to dselect. Once you have installed your system you

Re: ALT+CTRL+BS dangerous to X server

1997-01-21 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Christian Lynbech wrote: Apparently, the keyboard combinbation of ALT+CTRL+Backspace is set up to kill the X server. Is there any way to rebind/remove this feature? It shadows the handy emacs function of backward-kill-sexp and I have just lost one too many session on this account. In

Problems with Debian 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Johnny Stevenson
I am net to this list so sorry if I am asking any repeat questions. Problems: Not being able to remotely login anymore after installing a package (most probably xinetd). I could remote login before installing this. Now all I get is connection refused, even remote login in from the local machine

Re: Problems with Debian 1.2

1996-12-19 Thread Johnny Stevenson
Vatiainen Heikki wrote: Check if there's a line like '/usr/X11R6/lib' in the file /etc/ld.so.conf. If not, you should add it and run 'ldconfig' or 'ldconfig -v | more' for more verbose output. Yes, this works !!1 Thanks to all who responded. -- Be seeing you...

Re: llseek error large partitions

1996-09-16 Thread Johnny Stevenson
the debian.FAQ document, it has some guide lines on what sizes you should make your partitions and what they should be mounted as. -- Be seeing you... xXXXx Johnny Stevenson 2nd Year Bsc Computing Science E-mail : [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.ncl.ac.uk