iconv

Hi, Is there iconv for Linux? If not, is there an equivalent? Thanks, Rich

re-entrant functions

Hi, What package is the re-entrant development stuff in? I'm trying to compile something that needs getpwuid_r. I seem to have getpwuid, but I don't seem to have the re-entrant version. Thanks, Rich

KDE problems

Hi, I somehow managed to get things in an annoying state. I've been trying to install kde. I got the .deb files from the kde site and tried to install them. Somewhere along the line things got screwed up. I had the wrong version of qt installed (I had 1.40 and kde required 1.42) so things woul

Installing Netscape

Hi, I downloaded netscape-base-45 and tried to install it. It says it depends on netscape-base-4. Where is netscape-base-4? When I go to ftp.debian.org under the non-free/binary-i386 tree and do 'ls */netscape*' I get -rw-r--r-- 1 ftp ftp371996 Oct 13 18:54 web/netscape-base-406

A few problems

Hi, I just installed Debian Linux 2.1. I'm running on a 400MHz PII with 128M RAM. Everything seemed to install ok. However, when I reboot my machine it says that xdm can't find a valid X configuration file and won't start. I then log in as root and run xdm from the command line without problem

PostgreSQL with JDBC

Hi, I want to write some Java database stuff using postgresql. Are there any simple examples laying around somewhere I could look at to see how it's done? Thanks, Rich

Aztec PCI 338-A3D sound card

Has anybody gotten this card to work? Thanks, Rich

KDE man pages

Hi, I got KDE 1.0 up and running. Installing the dev version of the libraries and running ldconfig worked. Thanks to everyone who helped with that. Now the next problem... When I try to read any of the KDE man pages, the man page that comes up says that the entry has no useful manpage. Is ther

Re: KDE library problems

alled it. Could the uninstall have not deleted some files that it should have? If so, any idea what they are? Thanks, Rich On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Richard Heller wrote: > > > I tried to downloa

KDE library problems

Hi, I tried to download KDE version 1.0 and install it using the Debian packages. However, when I install it it can't find its libraries. They install in /usr/X11R6/lib just like they're supposed to, but it can't find them. The older version doesn't have this problem, but the KDE applications w

X wallpaper

Hi, I was wondering how to use an image file as wallpaper under X. Is it a window-manager specific thing? I've been trying to use fvwm2. I've seen some screenshots on-line showing fvwm2 users with wallpaper but I don't seem to be able to find where in the config files to set it up. Thanks, Ric

Re: Real3D StarFighter video card

2 Sep 1998, Christopher Barry wrote: > Rich, > > I haven't checked my mail since Saturday, so I apologise for this coming > late, but just recently today a free binary i740 server was announced on > slashdot.org. Hope you haven't ordered any Xi Graphics CDs yet :) > >

Re: Another FAT32 question...

> Hi, > This is of course a FAQ but either I'm extremely bad > at finding the answer or the debian FAQ file isn't > maintained well.. > I know the feeling. There's a lot of info out there and sometimes it's hard to dig through it all. > I would like to install Debian from my FAT32 partition, > b

Real3D StarFighter video card

Hi, I have a Real3D StarFighter AGP video card, which is based on the Intel i740 chipset. Unfortunately this chipset is currently unsupported by XFree86, at least it is according to their FAQ. The only place I've seen that offers an X server for this chipset is XiG. The problem is that they wan

lilo setup

Hi, I just installed Debian Linux and have some questions about lilo. I used Linux a few years ago and the way lilo worked then was that when you booted the machine, you got a LILO: prompt and then could type linux, dos, or whatever to boot the desired operating system. There was also a way to h

Install can't make boot disk

Hi, I get to the point in the Debian install where it asks to make a boot floppy. Everything else seems to be ok, but it keeps giving me errors when trying to create the boot disk. I'm not sure what the error is and I know the floppy is good because I just formatted it under Win98 and can crea

PCI problems

Hey, I have a 3COM 3c905TX network card and a Real3D StarFighter video card. When I boot my machine, the PCI probe gives both of the cards the same IRQ number. However, the network card is on bus 0 and the video card is on bus 1. Are the different bus numbers because the network card is PCI

Installation problems

Hi, I'm having a couple of problems installing Linux on my machine. The problems are revolving around two pieces of hardware, my ethernet card and my video card. My ethernet card is a 3com 3c905TX card. During the boot messages, the card appears to be correctly detected, however I don't seem

ILU

Hi, I have Debian Linux 1.1 and it came with ILU version 2.0.6. I installed the ILU package and have been trying to use it but am having problems. I tried to run the server from the tutorial example and it won't let me publish any objects. I use ILU on a Solaris machine and I had to put . in

libraries

Hi, I was wondering what the difference is between lib*.so and lib*.a libraries and is there any way to switch between them? For examples, I have in my /lib directory libtermcap.so, but when I try to compile stuff with that library I get an error from the compiler saying that the library doesn'

clock

Hi, This is my third try. The first time I wrote the wrong address to send to, the second time I got blocked by the "spam filter" because I've never posted anything before, so third time's a charm,right? Ok, I have Debian Linux 1.1 and the clock displays the wrong time. The time's ok under dos