On 22 Jan 99 20:15:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent West)
wrote:
>At 03:09 PM 1/22/1999 -0500, Michael Stenner wrote:
>>New xdm question:
>>
>>My box is set up to start xdm automatically. Can I start linux without
>>xdm starting? I would even settle for having it run but not on the
>>screen.
>>
>
On 19 Jan 99 07:17:49 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Phillips)
wrote:
>I've just installed the slink version of apt-get. Am I right in
>thinking that to upgrade to slink, I should run:
>
>apt-get update
>apt-get dist-upgrade
Yep.
>Is this at all dangerous?
Slink hasn't been released officially,
On 18 Jan 99 22:30:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>They recently helped a Xfree driver come into existance, so the tide is
>>turning.
>>
>
>Yes, but as we all know, it's not really open source, since the code
>is 'processed' to be unreadable. The TNT driver won't stay in future
>versions of Xf
On 19 Jan 99 06:21:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen M
Lavelle) wrote:
>I am using Mutt to read my email fetched from my ISP
>I understand how to move a message to another mailbox by pressing
You pressed it too soon!
Rob Wilderspin
--
"But I need it to crash once every few days -
reboots are
On 19 Jan 99 04:30:23 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 01/19/99
> at 12:55 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Robert Wilderspin) said:
>[...]
>>It's pointless spending much extra money for SCSI, let alone Ultra2 Wide
>>SCSI, on a single-user des
On 18 Jan 99 23:15:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oz Dror) wrote:
> I have two systems one with 2940UW and seagate UW drive pentium 200MMX 128MB
> RAM
>
> the second with aic7890 (which is like the 2940u2w) and a seagate u2w drive
> pentium-II 400Mhz 256 MB ram
>
>
> the second system clearly runs f
On Fri, 15 Jan 1999 19:20:08 GMT, "TC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Is there a generic extarctor for .deb archive formats ( like winzip for
>windoze 95 )
>I don't have a full linux install & I just want to grab some binaries out of
>a .deb archive ???
If you don't have dpkg handy (or you can't rem
On Sat, 2 Jan 1999 19:40:39 -0600, "John Foster" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>The main point I wish to make is this: if you compare the relative ages of
>the two operating systems to the stages of development, you will find that
>Linux is more than three times as evolved for is age compared to all
On 11 Dec 98 14:41:33 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>"J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)" wrote:
>> Take a look at MagicPoint (the "mgp" package).
>Where can I find it? Dselect (in hamm) asked for `Magic' finds only
>`libmagick4g'.
Try a search for "mgp", as Ray suggested.
Rob Wilderspin
--
"But I need it to
On 7 Dec 98 19:29:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Armin Wegner)
wrote:
>Every twenty minutes my xconsole writes a string consisting of date and time,
>my hostname and the string "-- MARK --". What does this mean? This is new and
>I can't remember when it first happened and what it caused to do so.
Thi
On 16 Nov 98 10:55:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Karlin)wrote:
>Hello,
>I'm attempting to get lynx to access the web via a proxy server on the lan.
>As I was reading the lynx documentation, I came across a sample lynx.cfg
>file.
>
>The sample file indicates that its default location should be
>
On 16 Nov 98 21:40:30 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kent West) wrote:
>Actually, that's not true. I want to eventually have a usable system, but
>I want to build it myself, not let an install script do it for me. As part
>of this process I'll also become somewhat familiar with compiling programs
>and se
On 10 Nov 98 21:51:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zack Brown) wrote:
>[lots of ideas for dselect, which I snipped]
Some good ideas there, Zack. A couple have already been done (the
skipping of installed packages and the selections-from-file ones), but
here's my wishlist for those that might care to l
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998 00:06:34 -0500, Jun Hou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have 96M memory, so I set this info in my Lilo; and I do see "96M total
>physical memory" when I type in "free" command.
>
>But after a day or so, this memory will become virtual 0 (say, 4k) out of
>no reason. I only have n
On 2 Nov 98 07:06:35 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Oz Dror) wrote:
>Hi
>I have hust installed debian 2.0 on new P-II machine.
>MB ASUS P2B-S (with aic7890)
>I have 2 SDRAMS 128MB each.
>
>When I try to boot linux with more then 128M linux crashes.
>
>Is this a hardware or software problem.
Try running
On Sun, 01 Nov 1998 04:37:59 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I received a new office PC with an nVidia AGP
>graphics accelerator that comes with a Riva 128
>chipset.
>
>Normally I use MetroX as my Xserver, but I'm not
>sure what card configuration to select. I'm not
>opposed to Xfree86, but don't have
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 16:45:46 GMT, "Imad M Tarabay"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hi to all...
Hey there.
>We are seething up a new ISP, and are wondering if you could help us =
>take a decision of which system to install - Linux, Debian or BSDi.
If you didn't already know, Debian is simply a vers
On 12 Oct 98 21:21:48 GMT, "Steve Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>Basic Unix Secruity 101 - If the person has physical access to the
>machine, there *IS* *NO* *SECURITY*. Want proof?
>
>I pop the HD out, place it as slave on my machine, mount what I want, end
>of story. Before this thr
On 7 Oct 98 21:04:22 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Gudas) wrote:
>Help! I've installed X, and it works, but the mouse doesn't work (at
>all). I'm thrashing around like a spastic cat trying to get back into
>shell, but I can't, and without the mouse, how am I supposed to change
>my config?
You ca
On Wed, 07 Oct 1998 17:22:37 +1000, Antony Burrows wrote:
>HI,
>I have just installed debian and am trying to set up my sound.
>I was following the instructions on how to config the kernel and logged
>on as root, went to /usr/src and typed make xconfig ( i was running x
>windows), i also tried wit
On 29 Sep 98 07:12:15 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote:
>I've just installed Debian 2.0. While I have some rather superficial
>familiarity with Linux in general (have played with a few distributions),
>this is my first crack at Debian.
>
>This is what I get when I run startx:
>
>X: exec of /usr/
On 21 Sep 98 12:40:08 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>It's part of the svga server.
It only appears in the VGA_16 server, I'm afraid. Why is it not
packaged separately, or with all servers?
Rob Wilderspin
--
"But I need it to crash once every few days -
reboots are the only chance I get to sle
On Sun, 20 Sep 1998 00:32:29 -0500, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Robert Wilderspin wrote:
>>
>> Is there any Debian-specific things that need to be done to compile
>> development kernels correctly? I'm considering downloading and trying
>> out 2.1.122, and
Is there any Debian-specific things that need to be done to compile
development kernels correctly? I'm considering downloading and trying
out 2.1.122, and would like to know whether I should be looking out
for any pecularities caused by Debian's layout, or something like
that. Will it work "out o
On 15 Sep 98 08:20:13 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've got a Diamond Viper 330 AGP running the X window system just fine
>on a debian 2.0 box. I don't know about svga, I haven't tried that yet.
I have, and it does, if you update to the latest version in slink.
Rob Wilderspin
--
"But I need
On 7 Sep 98 14:34:34 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I stuck my neck out and upgraded X11 to the packages in slink. Just
>previous to that I had upgraded wmaker to 0.19.1-1, also new on slink.
>At first, wmaker crashed the session. I purged wmaker.
>
>Now, for some reason I cannot fathom, xdm s
On 6 Sep 98 00:15:15 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Damir J. Naden) wrote:
>I can run windowmaker 0.19.1-1 package on a 2.0 system without problems. Di
>you install debian packaged version? Did you get any errors during the
>installation phase? I know that libproplist needed to be upgraded to 0.8*
>packa
On 4 Sep 98 02:59:09 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Dyer) wrote:
>Since I upgraded to hamm, only root is allowed to run pon.
>/var/log/ppp.log reports that my user logon does'nt have permission to
>open /etc/chatscripts/provider.
>--open /etc/chatscripts/provider failed :access denied.
>All users
On 4 Sep 98 10:37:53 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>It turned out to be option a. The help from the list was great as
>always. My problem is that I don't know where to start looking in the
>MAN pages (I would never have guessed the names tzconfig or hwclock).
Try "man -k clock" to get a list of a
On 4 Sep 98 02:47:24 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I don't know who packages WindowMaker but is one of the newer versions
>going to be packaged soon? I checked several of the ftp sites and the
>latest .deb for wmaker is 0.14.1 which is what shipped with the CD. I
>would like to have a newer v
On 04 Sep 1998 00:45:58 +1000, Robert Merkel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remo Badii) writes:
>
>> I cannot remember having seen any suggestion to include APM support in
>> the kernel during the (successful) installation of Debian 2.0 from the
>> CDs using dselect. Do I really ha
On 31 Aug 98 16:21:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm trying to get a good AGP video card to work with Debian 2.0. Looking at
>the list of supported cards in the xf86config utility I see the "matrox
>Milenium
>II (AGP)." However this card seems hard to find now since it's been replaced
>by
On 26 Aug 98 12:17:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've just had a look @ gnome.org, and was wondering - is gnome
>attempting to replace X as a gui? and if so, which is better?
No, Gnome is attempting to provide a consistent look-and-feel across a
range of applications that run under X,
On 26 Aug 98 08:16:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have gotten a new, larger harddisk, and wish to use it to expand my
>existing linux box. I would like to copy the filesystems off the old hard
>disk, and replace it with this one.
>
>So far I haven't succeeded. I haven't been able to confi
On 19 Aug 98 13:39:43 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Following instructions I found on this list some time ago, I installed
>hamm and win98 separately: each have their own drive - only one was
>hooked up at a time. Than, I put both drives in: Linux as hda and win
>as hdb. THis was nothing new f
On 19 Aug 98 16:51:37 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hi All,
>today I have changed the harddisk on my PC from 1.1G to ~4G WD
>Caviar 24300. I was quite happy when I have got running system by simply
>'cp from_old_disk to_new_disk'. Everything was fine until I tried to work
>with big files (~400M
On 15 Aug 98 09:13:51 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Thistlethwaite)
wrote:
>I have been trying to dig up information on installing XFSTT on my
>upgraded HAMM system so my Netscape will look better.
>
>I downloaded the relavent dpkgs and everything seemed in install
>correctly. I looked in the DOC'
On 13 Aug 98 22:34:45 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>The mouse works OK outside of X, started via
> gpm -m /dev/psaux -t ps2
>gpmconfig actually wants 'ms3' according to its help option, rather than ps2
>but won't accept ms3 (maybe linux chokes on any 'ms' concatenation :) ).
>
>Still wanti
On 11 Aug 98 02:14:52 GMT, in linux.debian.user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>I just recently installed the debian version of linux and now I have a few
>question...
>
>1. I downloaded a few extra packaged from the debian www site, now; I use a
>dual system (linux on one HD, Win95 on another). When i
On 6 Aug 98 04:23:09 GMT, in linux.debian.user you wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 05, 1998 at 11:53:34PM -0400, Matthew A. Reklau wrote:
>
>> Do the X servers include support for the Diamond Viper V330?
>>
>Dunno, but I think so. Debian's X software is Xfree86 3.3.2, so if Xfree86
>supports it, Debian supp
On 17 Jun 98 05:10:12 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Oh yeah? On my hamm->bo DOWNGRADE, I had to UPLOAD more than that.
Goddamn! You win. :-)
Rob Wilderspin
--
"But I need it to crash once every few days -
reboots are the only chance I get to sleep..."
--= (send replies t
On 17 Jun 98 03:19:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jun 16, 1998 at 10:25:08PM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote:
> > Neil Cheshire <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Should I really wait for the stable release? Seeing as I am not
> > > desperate to upgrade?
> >
> > In case it is expensive for y
On 16 Jun 98 18:19:20 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Autumn) wrote:
>I've tried throwing up my hands in frustration, but so far it hasn't
>helped.
Hmm. Have you tried tapping your fingers angrily on the desk?
>I have three Debian machines here, and they're rebooting quite
>frequently on almost exactly
On 16 Jun 98 17:39:36 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>There is the package "cruft" in slink, which will compare dpkg's databases
>with the installed files and print the differences (taking a lot of further
>input into account).
It sounds like cruft does much the same as the "verify" script found
i
On 16 Jun 98 11:20:14 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Can a linux box be used to serve a Win95 box the same way two Win95
>boxes can be hooked up together? Eg. -- can linux be set up in such a
>way that an ethernet connected Win95 box can 'see' some of the linux
>drives in its "Network Neighbor
On Mon, 15 Jun 1998 21:34:08 -0400, rs202 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've been scoping the various distributions of Linux for a few weeks,
>reading and so forth. I've just discovered Debian's Packages directory.
>This distribution looks like it would be incredibly simple to maintain
>with the wa
On 9 Jun 98 00:43:44 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Miller) wrote:
>hmmm... I think rewritable discs are magnetic and they can only be read on
>other CD-RW drives or DVD drives.
No, they still use a laser like conventional CD-R drives. As far as I
understand it, the layer that the pits are burned
On 8 Jun 98 02:56:07 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I'm interested in buying a internal/ide cd writer. I'd like to be able to
>(in linux) write audio cds, direct read, speed isn't too important, and
>I'm not sure about worm vs rewritable. What is the difference (other than
>being able to erase,
On 5 Jun 98 03:39:03 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote:
>>
>> Which script is it that rpm doesn't have, that dpkg does? I had thought it
>> was the post-removal, but I'm being challenged on that:
>
>None. In fact, rpm has one script debian lacks: the verify script.
F
On 8 Jun 98 01:50:54 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Hello, I would like to install linux or debian into my 200Mhz 32MB window95
>pentium notebook. I know how to download files from the internet, i use
>winzip to unzip files that are zipped,and self extracting files. But
>linux seems to be abit
On 3 Jun 98 17:59:02 GMT, Peter S Galbraith) wrote:
>So Red Hat 5.1 (their second libc6 version) is out before Debian 2.0...
>Not that there's a competition between Debian and Red Hat. Just a
>comment...
>
>(Not that *I'm* doing anything to further Debian progress, so I cannot
>complain! I just
On 2 Jun 98 18:15:05 GMT, (Timo Pettersson) wrote:
>Hi I sent a mail 6 mounth ago asking if Debian Linux suported my Riva128
>chip in 3D and it didn't. Is it doing it now?
As far as I know, the 3dfx is still the only supported 3D card. So
no, Riva128 won't do 3D under Linux. You can now get an
On 31 May 98 11:14:47 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mikhali Mifsud) wrote:
>What Xwindow games are avilable on Debian?
Well, some people seem to like Quake and Quake2. Another great
multiplayer is Xpilot, which includes AI-controlled enemies. It may
not look like much, but the gameplay is great. Mir
On 31 May 98 01:12:38 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I have a feeling that this is not going to get me far but I'm going to ask
>anyways:
>1) Does anyone here uses mechanical drafting apps (like AutoCAD or
>Cadkey-lookalikes) under linux? I have a demo of Varicad running, and there is
>a LinuxCAD,
On 28 May 98 02:02:53 GMT, in linux.debian.user [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>I just got another machine which I would like to dual boot *grin* with
>Winblows so I can have fun playing StarCraft and Unreal. I would like to
>get a 3dfx card. Will linux care if the 3dfx card is installed? I don't
>wi
On Sun, 03 May 1998 13:11:31 -0600, Jack Varga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 and would
>like to add it as an lp device. How do I do
>that?
Well, this is all I had to do to get it working. Be warned that
gs-aladdin is not "free software" in the true sense of the
On 19 Apr 98 02:59:00 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
>i wanted to rebuild my kernel and decided to try using the make-kpkg
>utility,i read the info file,run make menuconfig,make dep,make clean and
>finaly make-kpkg --zimage,it compiled thing but it gave me only a zImage
>file,i searched long an
On 17 Apr 98 15:04:17 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Cool, hardware debian packages!
>
>The Free Hardware Foundation, hmmm
Actually, I recently saw an announcement (c.o.l.a.?) about exactly
this. Someone wants to start up a project to develop open-circuit
hardware (if that's what you'd call
On 16 Apr 98 13:17:25 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I keep getting an error message telling me that I can't unmount my CD drive.
The simplest thing this could be is that one of your shells has /cdrom
as their current directory. You can't unmount until you cd out of
there.
(I'm sorry if that
On 15 Apr 98 12:09:52 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris) wrote:
>Another thing - is there any plans for debianizing the enlightenment
>window manager?
>From the "Prospective Packages" list posted here regularly, it seems
that there is:
By Shaleh ([EMAI
On 15 Apr 98 11:54:27 GMT, in linux.debian.user Maarten Bezemer wrote:
>Someone told me there are far more rpm-packages available, and other
>distributions also use rpm. What's true about that?
Whether it's true or not, Debian can install rpm packages! Use the
"alien" package to convert them to
On 13 Apr 98 18:26:04 GMT, in linux.debian.user Tim Sailer wrote:
>Does anyone have any experience with quad PPro systems? I'm bringing
>up a few boxes, and after 2-120 mins, we get IRQ DEADLOCK ON PROCESSOR X
>where X is 1-3. Can anyone offer any suggestions?
The most recent kernel patches have
On 13 Apr 98 18:10:22 GMT, in linux.debian.user Ossama Othman wrote:
>That's not what I recall. I recall that MMX stood for "Multi Media
>eXtensions," too. However, I couldn't find anything on the Intel site
>about what it stood for. Perhaps "MMX" really is a PR thing. :)
MMX does, according
On 13 Apr 98 01:20:26 GMT, in linux.debian.user you wrote:
>If you use EGCS gcc, found in the Debian egcc package, just use the
>"-mpentium" compiler flag. This should optimize your code for pentium
>processors, just as PGCC does. This CPU flag for pentiums isn't available
>in gcc 2.7.x, from wh
Has anyone had any experience of using PGCC with Debian? I'm
surprised that there isn't a package available for it, or even any
trying to create one (according to the prospective packages list).
Has there been any discussion as to whether pre-compiled Pentium
binaries should be made optionally av
I'm currently trying (and not getting all that far ;-) to get my
internet connection all set up and running. I've managed to log onto
my ISP without much trouble, although I can't remember exactly how,
and have done FTPs and so on.
However, until I get my news/email stuff set up properly I don't
On Thu, 23 Oct 1997 09:21:19 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Because your using demon internet, they forward your mail when you
>dial up by SMTP. You need to disable smail in your /etc/inetd.conf
>(just put a # at the beginning of the line).
I couldn't see any smail entry in /etc/inetd,conf. T
Is there any way to get *good* scrollbars in an xterm window? I've
put in the standard one, but the method of moving it is awkward and it
looks pathetic. The scrollbar in cmdtool would be ideal, but when I
run a shell with that I don't get any "up-arrow to review history"
thing.
And yes, I am a
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