i installed the pre-compiled xfree86 4 binaries from ftp.xfree86.org on
a woody system, and have a
Load "freetype"
line in my /etc/X11/XF86Setup. it all works perfectly except xlsfonts
doesn't load Truetype fonts, and so i can't use them in gimp/netscape
etc either.
what do i have to do to
= Remco van 't Veer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2222 1532]:
> My guess: add /usr/local/jre/lib/classes.zip (be sure it exists) to
> the -cp argument and try again. I got it to install but don't
> remember how..
classes.zip doesn't exist in /usr/local/jre/lib/classes.zip. i copied one
in from /usr/
e had this problem? advice gratefully appreciated.
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
Computer Science Undergraduate, University College Cork
http://student.cs.ucc.ie/01/murphyv/
is exactly the way i would like
viperCard.tex to be.
can anybody help with this? i guess it's something simple, but i only know
the basics wrt TeX.
TIA..
-vinny
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Vincent Murphy | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
Computer Science Undergraduate, University College Cork
http://student.cs.ucc.ie/01/murphyv/
= Stan Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2109 1818]:
> Can some kind soul PLEASE give me some advice on where to go fro here?
be advised that AFAIK there is a lot of development work being done on
base-floppies to make them ready for potato's move to stable. they are
changing frequently.
th
subscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]
= Brigette Heffner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19991203 2214]:
> Is there a book (written in HUMAN English) that I can buy?
running linux, (o'reilly)
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/runux3/
i started using linux with the 1st edition of this book. highly recommended.
.
= Brian Servis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [19991122 1450]:
> Sorry, no experience but this topic is covered in
> /usr/doc/apt/offline.txt.gz
yeah i have read that, but it doesn't answer my question.
the closest thing to what i want requires that you have apt-get on the
connected machine. i don't (i
d like to get a list of
absolute URLs for the Package.gz files which i can give to wget. i can do
this for a `apt-get upgrade' by doing
apt-get -yy --print-uris upgrade | awk '{print $1}'
any suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | [EMAIL PROTE
i live in ireland, i'm running a potato system, and it kicks ass, except
'date' tells me the wrong time. /etc/timezone says Eire, which is correct.
i'm in the GMT timezone. i want the CMOS clock, and the software clock to
be set to GMT. how do i do this?
-vinny
-- Vinc
ato, but when i did 'debian/rules binary' with xfree86 it fell
flat on it's face after a few seconds (i can't remember the specific problems).
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"With a PC, I always felt limit
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 07:49:26PM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
> Each time my system runs fsck on reboot (when the disk reaches it's
> mount count limit) the file system appears more fragmented. On the
> last fsck run it reported 5.7% non-contiguous. Is this a problem and
> if so what should I d
On Sat, May 08, 1999 at 01:02:24PM -0400, William R Pentney wrote:
> Is there any way I can get a newer version of GNOME than the 1.0.3 in the
> slink staging area without upgrading to potato? Do the newer GNOME
> packages really use glibc2.1?
i just upgraded to potato last night and the enlighte
om a floppy? any way of
makeing 2.0.x recognise >68MB RAM?
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge." --P J Schoenster
On Wed, Apr 14, 1999 at 10:03:07PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> A possible solution is to download the package source and build it yourself.
>
> [snip advice..]
excellent! thanks shaleh and dan. i'm off to build Eterm-0.8.9..
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [E
emacs... at least under
> X it does...
by "terminal", he means text mode, as in within an xterm or on a virtual
terminal. correct me if i'm wrong brian.
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 03:10:50PM +, Richard Harran wrote:
> Do you mean that you can run emacs in (MS) Windows. If so, could you
> please tell me where to find the windows version.
i'm not sure, but www.delorie.com would be a good bet.
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Und
On Sun, Apr 11, 1999 at 03:19:25PM -0500, R . Gregory wrote:
> I've been trying to invoke save-hooks to copy mails recieved from various
> folks into their own mboxes.
at the risk of totally sidestepping your question, i suggest that you look
at procmail.
-vinny
-- Vincent Murph
can't load library 'libXpm.so.4'
all the xpm pkgs in stable/x11 are installed.
all this crap with netscape is enough to make me want to downgrade to hamm.
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"With a PC, I alway
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 10:48:42PM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Today I received the following threat in e-mail from Eric Raymond. The message
is this for-real?
-vinny
have any ideas?
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge." --P J Schoenster
d bladeenc for encoding. i don't think
they're free, but they are downloadable. look them up on freshmeat.
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On
other *NIX systems, but not with
debian. debian (from slink onwards i think) has an alternative (more
elegant IMO) arrangement. see Xsession(5).
the short answer: .xsession is used by both startx and xdm in debian.
correct me if i'm wrong, but that's what i understood from the ma
eate /dev/dsp and /dev/audio,
but i'm still getting "Cannot initialize DSP" errors. YMMV.
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On Unix, I am
s already the newest version
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
anybody else have this problem? i'd appreciate any help you can offer.
if you want further diagnostic information just say so.
TIA..
vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC |
EXACTLY the same problem.
> Today I finally got it stop telling me
> there is a conflict on IRQ 5 when in fact, nothing is using
> IRQ 5.
how did you do that? do tell. anybody who replies cc me as well.
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 83
#x27;&' on the end of the enlightenment line, but that
brings the Xserver down just after it starts.
TIA..
vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On Unix, I a
l or try navigator 4.07? any info
would be much appreciated.
TIA..
-vinny
-- Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On Unix, I am limited only by my knowledge
i want to install linux (debian if possible) on a 386SX with 4MB RAM and
a 51MB HD. it will have an ISDN terminal adapter and a 3c509 network
transciever. can i use debian? if i can't, how do i go about it? i'm
open to suggestions about other (*BSD?) kernels.
TIA..
-vinny
--
i would like to create a (big) tar archive which spans multiple zip
disks. is this possible?
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"With a PC, I always felt limited by the software available.
On Unix, I am li
line too.
look in http://www.gnome.org/~jules and ~jim for the gnome staging areas.
~jgg should have apt-0.3.
-vinny
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Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
On Sat, Mar 20, 1999 at 12:56:34PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > deb http://www.debian.org/~bma enlightenment/
>
> AFAICT, those are the unstable debs that were compiled against glibc 2.1.
> Are there any debs that will install on a slink system?
brian almeida (the E maintainer) has asked
please let this thread DIE!
-vinny
i'm thinking of buying an alpha, and answers to these questions would
really help me make a decision:
1. what video cards can i use? Matrox? PCI? AGP?
2. what differences are there between Slink/i386 and Slink/Alpha?
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [
to have a look at this page:
http://master.debian.org/~branden/xsf.html
because there's a Great Reorganisation going on with X at the moment --
some of the existing packages were getting a bit unwieldy.
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
x27;s packaged in
hamm doesn't support the Riva TNT chipset in any of the servers.
HTH,
vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
can someone tell me how to build GNOME from CVS on a debian system
without breaking anything?
ideally, i'd like to get the source tree onto a zip disk as a seperate
operation in college and then bring it home, and build it there.
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [
has anybody built .debs of GNOME CVS recently?
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
"Never put off 'til tomorrow that which can be done the day after tomorrow."
--Mark Twain
I'd like to install Sybase ASE on my Debian hamm system.
However, I have only been able to get rpms of the package, from Redhat or
Caldera.
How should I go about installing this package on a Debian system?
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | 2nd CompSci Undergrad, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] |
the box was powered up when the mouse died. But maybe some glitch
> turned off the port in CMOS, so I'd at least check it out.
i've looked in the BIOS setup, and everything /appears/ to be ok, and when
the kernel boots up it gives me the usual message about the serail ports.
thanks
there any
_The UNIX Programming Environment_, Kernighan and Pike (Prentice Hall),
covers sh in great detail, along with filters (sed, awk and friends).
It's a great book.
HTH,
vinny
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Vincent Murphy | 2nd CompSci Student, UCC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
NT = Not Today
ormal,
but it doesn't work either.
I will provide diagnostics on request, as I don't know what to include at
this point.
regards,
vinny
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Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
NT = Not Today
I and a colleague share a PC. We would like to each run our own Xserver,
which can be switched to using Ctrl-Alt-F7 and F8, as with virtual
consoles.
Is such a situation possible? I'm running hamm.
regards,
vinny
PS please CC any replies to me.
--
Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci St
alone machine.
Comments, suggestions, very very welcome.
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
NT = Not Today
On Tue, 15 Dec 1998, Vincent Murphy wrote:
> When I play Quake 2 using 3dfxgl.so, it won't let me use the mouse. The
> other modes do.
Killing gpm with `gpm -k' did the trick.
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Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
When I play Quake 2 using 3dfxgl.so, it won't let me use the mouse. The
other modes do.
What am I doing wrong?
Please CC me on list replies.
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (086) 8397405
NT = Not Today
On Tue, 8 Dec 1998, Shao Zhang wrote:
> When I run dpkg --configure emacs20, I got the following:
AFAIK, emacs20 on the hamm cd is broken. You'll need to download an
updated package if you were using the one off the cd (I think).
-vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student
I would like to be able to use my Creative Labs ViBRA PnP Sound Card with
hamm. How do I use isapnptools to install it? Redhat 5.0 detected it first
time last year.
--vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +353 (086) 8397405
"Too much of anything is bad, bu
vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +353 (086) 8397405
i want emacs to do font locking on my java code, but i don't want to use
cc-mode. how do i do this?
The following
M-x fundamental-mode
M-x font-lock-mode
does not work.
--vinny
--
Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +353 (086) 8397405
till am.
> It *does* kind of suck.
It does annoy me also when you can't get the latest whizz bang version of
e.g. Eterm, but at the same time it's a great incentive for us to get up off
our butts and start maintaining them ourselves.
regards etc.
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Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +353 (086) 8397405
gards,
vinny
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, connect their
parallel ports. then using plip and proxy arp, i would like to install debian
on my home machine.
do i need a spare ip address for the second machine? any other advice?
regards,
vinny
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Vincent Murphy | UCC CompSci Student | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +353 (086) 8397405
I would definitely recommend wget for this. Excellent utility, with excellent
docs (use info). It'll work through http proxies and everything.
regards,
vinny
does anybody have a line for /etc/apt/sources.list which allows one to
download the hamm kde packages from ftp.kde.org or one of its mirrors?
regards,
vinny
Given that KDE is no longer available from the debian ftp archive, where
should one go to get good packages for hamm/slink? The packages on
ftp.kde.org seem to be for bo, which presumably means libc5.
--vinny
allocate these IP addresses. How can I do this?
Any advice would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards,
Vincent Murphy
e used for this kind of thing,
but know nothing else about. What's the difference between them? All these
machines have static IP addresses assigned to them.
What do I have to do to set up a Debian (Hamm) box to have it's IP address
assigned in this way?
thanks etc.
vincent murphy
Hello all.
It is my intention to set up a lab of PCs here at my college to dual-boot
Debian and NT. I have some questions related to setting up Debian on all
these machines, in such a way that they are all identical.
My basic strategy at the moment is to configure a `prototype' machine first,
with
I want to set up one debian box as a NIS server and sharing a directory as
NFS, and another to share its passwords and mount the shared dir off the
other. What packages do I have to install? Any other advice?
regards,
vinny
Hi.
I was wondering if it is possible to get Win95 clients to work with
Hylafax? If so, how?
regards,
vincent murphy
How can one find out what the projected release date for slink is?
regards,
vinny
I am looking to buy a high-capacity (>1GB) removable drive. Can anyone
confirm whether a 2GB Jaz SCSI drive works with Linux? How about using the
parallel port? I would presume that it works over the parallel port using
ppa.
What about the Syquest 1.5GB drive?
Any advice from Debian users of thes
I would really just suggest that you get a book called "Running Linux"
(O'Reilly) and read it. I learned more about Linux in that one book (I
consider myself reasonably proficient in how the thing works) than I
did in lots of other bits `n' pieces on the web (slashdot et al.).
Alternatively get yo
What's the best recipe to use with this list for procmail?
--vinny
Hi. I'd like to be able to type in
apt-get
and have apt-get instead of installing the packages, stick them in
/zip, my zip drive, so i can take them home. Is this possible?
thanks,
vincent murphy
advice would be much appreciated.
regards,
Vincent Murphy
> | I would like to set my clock so it displays the time relative to GMT
> | (Greenwich Mean Time) as opposed to anything else. How do I do this?
> | I installed hamm for scratch using the Dialup set of packages, and I
> | think xntpd is installed.
>
> I'm not sure I'm following what you want. Yo
I would like to set my clock so it displays the time relative to GMT
(Greenwich Mean Time) as opposed to anything else. How do I do this?
I installed hamm for scratch using the Dialup set of packages, and I
think xntpd is installed.
Regards,
Vincent.
I am interested in finding out about apt and deity. I would appreciate if
someone would inform me of a website or somewhere where I can get
introductory information.
Specifically, i was wondering ring whether it would be possible for me to
install packages using http, thru a http proxy. I am insi
> > What exactly is HURD.
Hurd is covered in depth on the gnu website. Look in the software section.
Also look at the overview of the GNU system to see how it is/was supposed
to fit in to the system, and how Linux more or less beat it to it.
regards,
vinny
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