XFree

Has XFree made any progress in supporting the accelerated features of the 65550 C&T& on the Tecra yet?

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

John Goerzen wrote: > Bad idea. Replace the entry in the options file with ttyS0, do NOT make a > modem symlink. This could, in fact, be responsible for all the rest of > your problems. > > Reason is: modems use UUCP-style locking. Other programs will see that > /dev/modem is locked, but NOT t

To the GCC package maintainer?

Is ther e a version of gcc that includes the gnustep patches to the Objective-C runtime?

Re: Why is PPP so screwed up!?!?!

Interesting, I find Debian Linux to be the most easiest PPP setup. All I have is the following # cat /etc/ppp.options_out /dev/modem 38400 204.97.69.153:204.97.64.1 defaultroute note the defaultroute at the end that's what tells pppd to setup the default route. --

xmcd and internet database servers.

Anybody got xmcd working? Any sign of a package? I would appear that xmcd has the advantage over Workman in that it works with servers to get playlists etc. -- Where's my spy camera? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PR

SkyJet?

Has anybody tried a SkyJet yet? (SCSI) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Netscape Com.... Pre 2

Anybody know if where' suppose to use the Debian wrapper with the Netscape Communicator release? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's the best 1.2.6 site?

The developer mirror sites are a little too volatile. So, what' the best 1.2.6 mirror? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Whereis OSBS?

Does anybody have the home page for OSBS? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NT and Microsoft can go to hell!

Well I guess I was expecting a little too much of NT when I just tried to shift partitions around. The plan was to simply backup a data partition and move it by creating a new data partition on the same drive and restoring the backup. I figured I'd be able to get the drive lettering sorted out. I

Sorted out my mouse problem... Tecra owners please read.

Turns out that I installed a new version of pcmcia_cs and along the way it hoarked my configuration.. OK Tecra owners what irq do you use for your ethernet? I try to use 11 and so with 12 being the ps/2 mouse I tried setting PCIC_OPTS=irq_mask=0xe7ff to exclude those two interrupts but it turns o

All of a sudden lost mouse support...

Very wierd. I install apm which I've disabled but since I did this gpm says /dev/mouse: Device or resource busy. Cat /proc/interrupts shows that the mouses interrupt 10 isn't in use by anybody. lsof /dev/mouse shows nothing. So this is usually the kernel saying that there's no mouse support? I

Is there a WorkMan deb?

Any recommendations for Cd tools? I want something that I can set up the tracks with. cdplay in cdtools doesn't let me do that. I know of Mcd and I prefer Workman of the two. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAI

Battery level monitor for Linux and X11?

dmesg reports the correct information from the BIOS so that APM stuff is working fine. So does anybody know of a good notebook battery level monitor? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sybase client libraries for Linuc?

In the past I've heard rumours about this. What's the truth to the availablity of dblib or ctlib libraries for Linux? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian on the shuttle

I haven't read the article but perhaos the article is talking about the differences b/w the the debian and other distributions? If that's the case then the debian developers surely deserve most of the credit. On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: > Jonas Bofjall wrote: > > > > On Thu, 20

XFree86 3.2A?

I've heard that the acceleration is worth it. Particularly on my Tecra. So are the .deb's available for 3.2A? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Tecra's and resume?

Do any Tecra 720/30 users have suspend/resume working on the machines with Debian 1.2? When I try to resume it just has a black screen. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

something strange has happened.

Where's netstd been moved to? in rex-fixed it was a link to updates but now it's not in rex-fixed/binary-i386/net or updates/binary-i386 am I missing something? Also the ms-dos path has netstd.deb->../../binary-i386/net The destination of the link isn't there. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MA

Re: LILO and WIN NT

Franck LE GALL - STAGIAIRE A FT.CNET/LAB/FCI/PIH wrote: > > Hello, > > I had DOS and LINUX debian 1.2 installed on my system and it used to > works perfectly. > Recently, I have got WIN NT installed on another partition and LILO > doesn't work anymore even if I run /usr/s

Here's what dselect silently ignored.

I think netstd is why I have no nfs. Well, like I said. I found it rather worrying that dselect _silently_ ignored these. Packages libc5_5.4.20-1.deb Packages.gz libg++27-dev_2.7.2.1-6.deb adduser_2.13.deb libg++27_2.7.2.1-6.deb aout-gcc_2.7.2.1

What package is nfsd in?

I think my rex-fixed/updates problems are responsible for the lack of any mention of netstd_nfs. Since I've installed Debian before I'm familar with the need to uncomment mountd/nfsd etc... Well that use to be the case. Could it be that this package resides in rex-updates at the moment? This rais

Help Tecra 720CDT and fixed boot disks...

Well it looks like we've got a boot disk problem again. I'm trying to boot from my rescue disk from the rex-fixed distribution from say last Thursday and even though I used this to install Debian on my desktop successfully. Something is very wrong with the Tecra. Basically it gets all the way thr

How come no Aladdin ghostscript?

Isn't it regarded that the Aladdin ghostscript offers better fonts/features? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Experiencing lockups

When running X , every time I go out to the kitchen and getting something to eat and come back the machines is locked up. The mouse pointer's no where to be seen. and it takes _several_ reports _even_ after a powerdown to get keyboard to work again at the login prompt. Very confusing. I was run

Networking questions....

I have a desktop machine running Debian 1.2 and a Tecra with a 3c589 etherlink card. I'd like to know why I cannot just plug in and boot my laptop and expect the cards ethernet light to be on. The only way the ethernet gets setup right is when I've rebooted my desktop machine. Only then will the l

Re: Cogent 960C NIC problems.

I'll conclude that there's a problem when running it as a module so I compiled it in and it does work correctly then. On Sat, 18 Jan 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: > Debian 1.2 won't detect my NIC. > > I've got a customized kernel with networking support but it d

What's the ALT-F4 stuff?

Exactly what is this multi screen session concept that allows you to type ALT-F4 and login again... I'd like to read the documentation on this feature. Cheers. -- This message was delayed because the list mail delivery agent was down.

Cogent 960C NIC problems.

Debian 1.2 won't detect my NIC. I've got a customized kernel with networking support but it doesn't detect the card. The kernel has the PCI Tulip driver configured as a module. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAI

Linux on Tecra 720CDT

Is anybody running pcmcia_cs on a 720CDT? Did you exclude irq 3 for the internal modem in the config.opts for pcmcia? Anybody know how to configure a particular devices irq? I've configured my 3c589-tp's in the etherdisk to use irq 11 but linux wants to use irq 3 (before I decided to exclude it)

Re: Tecras and Debian 1.2

Regarding the new disks that include the Tecra patch ... Which tree are the new disks made available under? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

hylafax?

What happened to the gentleman who was going to provide Hylafax packages? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DNS

Just on this... has somebody corrected the order of defaultroute in the chatscript file? it has to appear after the device right? On Tue, 14 Jan 1997, Igor Grobman wrote: > On Mon, 13 Jan 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: > > > Having finally got pppd working, I tried to deselect using ftp to load > >

note for mirrorors...

The following suggests that rex-fixed contains a complete mirror of rex with the updates and that's not true since the source makes reference back to the rex tree. ie. if you want to mirror you need rex / rex-fixed / rex-updates the disks tree makes reference to the updates branch 250-Debian-

Tecras and Debian 1.2

Ok, I'm hearing that somebody has applied the a20 gate patch to the latest boot disk set is that right? Can we now expect to be able to install 1.2 on 700 series Tecras with this new disk set? NOTE: for those who have been following this issue closely. Although _somehow_ I was able to get Linux

Netscape 3.01 and Java?

 Does Java support work in Netscape 3.01? It's bus erroring for me whenever it hits an applent and java_301 is in the right place.

What's the status of X11 in Debian 1.2?

Can somebody tell me which X11 distribution rex is based on? and where for instance does one find the Matrox Millenium server in .deb format? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

texbin and tex base fonts?

I trust the problem of texbin not depending on tex's base fonts has been fixed? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Requesting December on the mailing list archives.

Could who ever manages the mailing archives put up the December files please.  

What's up with SCSI tape drives in Debian 1.2?

Everytime I install the distribution I notice that despite configure the tape driver and seeing the system report st0. I still have to MAKEDEV nst0 _after making sure that omit stuff is all commented out_ in /etc/makedev.cfg. Also, if I interrupt gnutar after creating nst0 and just doing someth

Succeeded in installing Debian 1.2 on Tecra 720CDT

Well, I had a problem with BIOS revision 5.60 .. The reported bzImage problem. However, I've just noticed no such problem after upgrading to 5.80 which Toshiba made available in December.   If you have a Tecra 700 series notebook do see if an upgraded BIOS fixes this problem.   I would like t

Microsoft's round robin DNS?

Has anybody seen how Microsoft implements their DNS? I'm a little confused because they return a connect refused and then expect to roll over to their next host. I'm guessing this is something that explorer knows about. Something that netscape did earlier with their browsers. But Netscape catches

Re: Anyone using Free SCO Unix yet?

I'm guessing there's a lack of device driver support but I've never liked SCO. -- They pay homage to a king who's dreams are buried in their minds. His tears are frozen stiff. Icicles drip from his eyes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED

imake config

Where does one find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/config? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Hylafax packages?

Somebody a few weeks ago had mentioned that they were preparing hylafax as packages? Have they been uploaded? I seem to be having a problem getting sessiontracing working with the source. I'm using libc 5 2 18 -- They pay homage to a king who's dreams are buried in their minds. His tears are f

useradd?

What linux's have useradd? It seems that hylafax's faxsetup script assumes you have useradd. I know I have adduser -- They pay homage to a king who's dreams are buried in their minds. His tears are frozen stiff. Icicles drip from his eyes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the

Disaster recovery...

OK I've setup my laptop up to a point that deserves backing up. I'd like to be able to recovery quickly in an emergency. I have my desktop machine which I can NFS to/from the laptop ... Does anybody have any strategies for backing up a laptops installation? The local Packages files reflect what

Faxing?

Has anybody summarized the differences b/w EFAX and Hylafax? I've used Hylafax in the past and respect Sam's coding and knowledge of faxing. and Hylfax fax has a very strong following. And I found it relatively painless to setup but I've no experience with EFAX which appears to be the only offeri

Which Netscape? 3B4?

Hi, I noticed that the .deb in rex is for 3B4 Is that what people are running today? Will that deb (which requires you to download netscape) work with other releases? -- They pay homage to a king who's dreams are buried in their minds. His tears are frozen stiff. Icicles drip from his eyes

Starting up nfs?

Why are all the lines in /etc/netstd_nfs (for "start") commented out? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Which PPP stuff?

Hi folks, tonight I hope to get PPP working on my laptop aftering getting the Hayes Optima 144 working last night. What does one take from Rex to get ppp going? DIP/DIAL etc? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Using a Hayes Optima 144?

Hi, I believe I've done everything I need to to be able to use this PCMCIA fax/data modem. I've verified that serial is loaded before serial_cs with lsmod and install minicom but all attempts to address the modem fail. Is anybody using this modem? Currently /dev/modem is a link to /dev/cua2 whi

pcmcia-modules source deb?

If I recompile my 2.0.6 kernel with the source in rex I'm also expected to have to recompile the pcmcia-modules I'm using right? They appear to be available in deb format only as compiled against 2.0.6 kernels but when I put in my Hayes Optima 144 it says that the modules don't match the kernel.

Re: serial as a module?

Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Well I've almost go this to work now. I didn't have misc/serial in my /etc/pcmcia/config > > Can serial support be added as a module in 2.0.6 from rex? > > I ask because lsmod doesn't show it and it's

serial as a module?

Can serial support be added as a module in 2.0.6 from rex? I ask because lsmod doesn't show it and it's out there in /lib/modules/2.0.6/misc/serial.o but when serial_cs from the PCMCIA package trys to load it gets undefined symbols for register_serial and unregister_serial -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Confused about networking..

Ok I installed the pcmcia_cs support and I believe I have /etc/pcmcia/network.opts set up correctly and ifconfig reports the right addresses but netstat -rn is showing 0.0.0.0 for the gateway. netstat -rn shows 192.42.172.00.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 1500 0 0 eth0 127.0.0.1 0.0.0.0 2

Accelerated X with an AST Ascentia 950N notebook?

The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted as well. Hi, is there anybody using Accelerated X 1.3 with a 950 ascentia? I don't know how to get it to support my mouse nor 800x600 x >=8bit Pointers to any linux laptop lists welcome. -- They pay homage to a king wh

Re: floppy problems?

Robert Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Anybody seen this in 2.0.6? > > floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation > end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1 > bread in fat_access failed > cat: list: I/O error > > I wrote to this disk aft

Re: pcmcia ethernet cont'd

I've sinced learned that I should be looking at /etc/pcmcia/network and since I changed that things started work. However, it would seem that the patch cable I'm using is incorrect because I pulled out another much shorter cable that worked but is too small for me to do anything. Does anybody have

pcmcia ethernet cont'd

OK here's what I did. I've installed the buzz-updates disks and I have a 2.0.6 kernel now and I've added the pcmcia_cs package and the modules that go with it and my system recognises the 3c589c at boot time. However, it doesn't setup the interface for some reason and my "strobe light" is hard on

floppy problems?

Anybody seen this in 2.0.6? floppy0: disk absent or changed during operation end_request: I/O error, dev 02:00, sector 1 bread in fat_access failed cat: list: I/O error I wrote to this disk after I mounted it under Solaris x86 using vol management and when I attempt to read from it under debian 1

Wanted: pcmcia_cs in .deb format for 2.0.6

If anybody has a .deb of pcmcia_cs compiled against the 2.0.6 kernel could they please get in touch. Cheers. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Glimpse search?

Is it common knowledge that the search engine isn't working on www.debian.org? I'm trying to search the mail archives. File Not found The requested URL /cgi-bin/aglimpse/23/usr/ns-home/debian.org was not found on this server. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscri

FTP/NFS install via 3COM 3C589C?

HI folk, i've just installed 1.11 (buzz) on my notebook and I'd like to know how i can point deselect at my Solaris x86 desktop machine. I believe I need kernel support for the ethernet card and I don't think it's available in the "out of the box" kernel. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: