BackSpace Key

1998-03-14 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
My backspace key has suddenly stopped working in X. Now it acts like a [Delete] Key. This happened when my KBD package died along with my /usr/loal/ directory, but did not recover when I reinstalled KBD. Any ideas how to fix this? Thanks, Timothy -- E-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

SCSI changes Interrupts?

1998-03-01 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I just got my Adaptec 152x SCSI adapter to work However, two weird things happened in the process that I wonder if anyone could shed some light on Firstly, before I got it to work, cat /proc/interrupts reported my PS2 mouse as being on IRQ 8, SoundScape as being on IRQ 10, and had no

POP3 Client..

1998-03-01 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Does anyone know of a good POP3 client for Linux/X? Something like Eudora or Pegasus in Windoze...? I just want to beable to check multiple mail boxes easily. (Its a pain in netscape mail). I'de rather not have to setup fetchmail and related apps. Thanks, Timothy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Modem Problems....

1998-02-25 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Is there a neat utility to display what things are using what IRQs? Thanks, Timothy Sounds like you have an IRQ conflict. Read the 'dmesg' output and see exactly what interrupt the serial port is on, and make sure it's not the same interrupt as another card. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

GhostView / GhostScript problem...

1998-02-24 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I have GhostView 1.5-16.1 and gs-aladdin 5.10-3 / gs 3.33-6. Using either gs and gs-aladdin, all the files i've tried to open in GhostView (eps,ps,pdf), have given some sort of errors, such as: Unknown paper size: (A4). Unrecoverable error: stackunderflow. Unexpected interpreter error -17. Error

Re: GhostView / GhostScript problem...

1998-02-24 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
different sort`s of errors? Or always the same? is libpaperg installed and configured? Yes, I have the newewst libpaperg installed: Aside from the error I get when opening gziped ps/eps/pdf files, which I presume is a separate problem, all the errors are the same A4: Unknown papersize thing.

Broken Man pages after uprade!

1998-02-23 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I just installed the man-db and manpages packges from hamm. (Before I was using the old ones from Bo). Now, whenever I try to man anything, it says: sh: /usr/bin/pager: No such file or directory sh: exec: /usr/bin/pager: cannot execute: No such file or directory. Where can I get this pager

Modem Problems....

1998-02-23 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I was trying to setup debian on another computer: The serial module only detects /dev/ttyS1. I tried to get minicom to dial out on /dev/ttyS1, but it doesnt seem to initialize it, and the modem doesn't make any noise when I try to dial. Any suggestions as to where I should go from here to try and

Enlightenment Stuff.

1998-02-21 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Has anyone gotten Enlightenment related apps (ImLib, eMusic, ePlus, eTerm, etc), to compile properly on their debian system? From what i've seen RH5 people seem to beable to compile E-stuff fine, while they give trouble on other distributions. I'm wondering what the RH5 people have that i'm

Sound Modem on one ISA Board?

1998-02-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
A friend of mine would like to install Linux; he has a board by creative that has both sound and modem on it. Might linux have a problem with this - Is there any reason why it mightn't work properly with a single board for music modem? (It's not one of the IBM DSP things). Or better yet, has

Netscape 4.0 Bus Error Fixed, New Linux Distribution....

1998-02-15 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Just a note for others who have been experiencing the Netscape Bus Error bug when attempting to view Java Applets; I just upgraded to X-Suse (Matrox), in an attemt to get X-Anim to work better, and inadvertently 'fixed' Netscape. I can run all Java applets I encounter just fine now; (previously

Xanim.....

1998-02-14 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Thanks for everyones help with the PPP problem. It's fixed now. :). I recently installed the XAnim package; I've tried playing AVI,MOV and MPG files. All of them play black white, criss crossed with lines, and distorted with multiple outlines of the animation at different offsets. When I add the

Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I'm helping a friend setup debian on his computer; he uses the same ISP as me, so I set it up just like mine. It didn't work immediately (It just disconnected shortly after connect), so I added +chap to the options file to make sure it was using the CHAP auth that the server wanted. Now

Re: Spreading Linux..... new PPP problem :(.

1998-02-13 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Yes, we use the same dialup number and everything. Our ISP only authenticates with CHAP, so we have to use this chap-secrets thing. The chap secrets, now mode 600, in /etc/ppp has - Hisusername * Hispassword - in it, just like mine. The PPP.log says: Feb 13 14:32:35 sexmajik pppd[174]: Connect:

Re: Automating PPP with cron?

1998-02-09 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Sounds like a dooable crack. I see a cron.daily, weekly monthly directory in /etc, with scripts in it, which I presume get executed daily weekly and month respectively. I'de like it to run every 6 hours. I tried read the cron cron tab manpages, but I'm still clueless as to how to do this I

Automating PPP with cron?

1998-02-08 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I would like to setup my system to do two things. To check periodically to see if my PPP connection has died, and redial my isp if it has. And to disconnect and redial every 6 hours, (my isp doesn't like it if you stay one more than 6 hours consecutively). What would be the best way to go

Monolith DynDNS + ip-up

1998-02-06 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, I'm trying to register my monolith domain from within my ip-up script using mlddc. I have the line (mlddc mymldata 21) /var/log/mlddc as specified in the readme file in ip-up. However, when I login as usual with pppd, it doesn't register and the /var/log/mlddc file is empty. When I type that

CircleMUD

1998-01-31 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I was trying to compile Circle MUD 2.20 under my hamm setup. It said 'undefined refrence to 'crypt'' a bunch of times and died. Any idea what package am I missing to cause this message? Thanks, Timothy BTW - Does anyone know of any bininaries of mud servers worlds available for Linux? --

SO4, dpkg

1998-01-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi! I just downloaded the StarOffice4 tarball from ftp.stardivision.de, and installed it fine. However, it generates segmentation faults and crashes with what appears to be complete irregularity. I installed it onto /usr/local/Office40 as root. (It seemed to want to install onto the home

Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I have been following various messages about Netscape 4.04, and it seems to me that lots of people's NSN4 don't do Java properly, AND, (Please correct me if i'm wrong), I haven't seen any successfull reponses to mine or anyone else's messages about fixing this problem. So! Will anyone

Re: Netscape 4.04.... [Read this Please!]

1998-01-18 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
My MOZILLA_HOME as well as all the other directories NSN must find as described in the README are already set. :(.However, everyone who has replied indicating success seems to be running full hamm. Mine is half bo, half hamm. I suspect that the problem is rooted in the half bo, half hamm

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-11 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi, just a quick question b4 I go to lunch. I just installed the StarOffice thing, and had two problems. The first, was mentioned in the FAQ; it wouldn't register the deamons. Unfourtunately, I have no idea how to enable the portmapper that the FAQ said I had to do. Where do I start with this?

Re: Package Installation....

1998-01-11 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I had been installing the StarOffice3.1 deb package as root, so I tried to redoo it as a regular user, but dpkg said I needed superuser priviliges.So, I tried untarring the tarballs manually according to the mini-howto, but I ran into the same Server Crash no 11 problem when I tried to do the

Package Installation....

1998-01-10 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Hi! I just downloaded StarOffice 3.1 from Caldera, and debianized the RPMs with Alien. (Thanks for the help with my Alien problem, it works now!). When I try to install it, it wants to install onto /opt/StarOffice-3.1. But my root partition doesn't have enough space for 100mb's of staroffice!! Any

ICQ for Java

1998-01-10 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
Has anyone got ICQ for Java to work? Mine goes fine until it has to contact the ICQ server for creating a new account, whereupon it gives a warning message and then gets stuck in some kind of a loop between the warning message and the last page of info to fill out. It also screws up when I try to

Kernel Modules...

1998-01-08 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots of messages about not being able to find the old modules. Is there any easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at boot-time so it

Re: deb package format

1998-01-05 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I noticed the same thing too. I can't find the SANE scanner driver or Enlightenment Binaries and afew other things that I forget in.deb Only RPM. :(.. Whenever I try to install/debianize with Alien, it says /usr/bin/checkbash: tempfile: command not found /usr/bin/checkbash: $TMP:

Netscape 4.04 bug / problem?

1998-01-04 Thread Timothy M. Hospedales
I just downloaded Netscape 4.04 and installed it via the .deb installer. When I start Netscape, it prints out about two pages of messages like: netscape: can't resolve symbol 'execute_java_constructor' The messages are all something about Java or JavaScript.. Then, any time I go to a page