Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-08 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Thought wrote: Do you or does anyone else get these errors right after installing Debian? I would imagine that at least for the first day or so most everything would be error free and ready to go, but maybe not? The only thing I can think of that would cause ME to have

Re: Idea for the burner

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, J.P.D. Kooij wrote: Like, dselect is a great and easy tool, but there is no manpage for it... Dselect is pretty intuitive once you get the hang of it, but it needs to be a bit better before I call it a great and easy tool. There were a couple of times that dselect

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Mr Stuart Lamble wrote: William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] : Weird, I did an ldd on vim. The only two libs it needs are ncurses and : libc. Are there two different versions of vim in the debian packaging : system, one with and one without X support

Re: XFree86 3.2 performance problem ?

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 7 Mar 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone else noticed that, since the upgrade to 3.2, X seems to be slower ? [stuff deleted] Has anoyone had a similar experience ? I noticed that my Cirrus Logic

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Kael Rowan - CPTS666 wrote: 3c59x ether_setup: wrong version or undefined register_netdev: wrong version or undefined dev_kfree_skb: wrong version or undefined dev_alloc_skb: wrong version or undefined eth_type_trans: wrong version or undefined netif_rx: wrong version

Re: Module Errors!!

1997-03-07 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Thought wrote: Whenever I run /sbin/depmod -a, I get the following errors: and on and on and on for about 100 more lines... What should I do about that? (Oh, and other than /sbin/depmod -a, I followed all of the steps you mentioned in the previous reply to the

Re: no CDROM

1997-03-06 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Chris Tipney wrote: Dear all, I have just finished installing Debian fron the CD that came with Linux World issue 1 it works fine but doesn't find my Aztech IDE CDROM drive. During boot the following lines appear... hdb: CDA286031 SE, ATAPI CDROM drive ide0 at

Re: VIM Editor

1997-03-06 Thread William Chow
On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Branden Robinson wrote: On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Indus wrote: I am new to Linux and I have just tried to install the system onto a 386 DX20 laptop with 8mb of ram. When I try running VIM, I get an error message saying that it needs the 'libXaw.so.6' library. Where can I

Re: Xfree86 Question

1997-03-05 Thread William Chow
On Wed, 5 Mar 1997, Terry Martin wrote: Could not find config file! - Tried: /etc/XF86Config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config.neverland /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config Fatal server error: No config file found! Note, the X server no longer looks for XF86Config in $HOME

Re: Problems booting with new kernel

1997-03-04 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 3 Mar 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Karl Sackett wrote: I've been trying to upgrade my kernel using kernel-source-2.0.27. I put the new kernel on a floppy, boot from the floppy, and instead of loading the new kernel I get this on my display: Loading..

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

1997-03-04 Thread William Chow
On Tue, 4 Mar 1997, Craig Sanders wrote: 1. what do you expect for free? Well, one would expect at least a clean install... If people perceive Linux/Debian as being impossible to install, then, well, they won't use it :) And if people don't use an OS, well, that's just bad for people in

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

1997-03-02 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: The ISP has nothing to do with it. There is a systematic approach to setting up anything. Before one can resolve an issue one must understand the problem. The approach is: 1: manually dial up and log into your ISA 2: edit the respective files

Re: lprm says Permission denied (fwd)

1997-03-01 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, John Goerzen wrote: This is *not* an acceptable fix. Other packages, for isntance Samba, will **NOT** work with lprng. Doesn't getting rid of name canonizing in lpr work? Just get the source of an older version of lpr or unpatch the current sources or get an older lpr

Re: xemacs and c++ //-type comments

1997-03-01 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, root wrote: The c++ mode in xemacs does not appear to recognize the double-slash comments in c++ code (these comments start with // and end at the following new-line -- like the '#' comment character in ksh scripts). Yes it does, my 19.14 emacs seems to understand

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

1997-03-01 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 1 Mar 1997, Peter Iannarelli wrote: I'd like to say the getting PPP up and running was a breeze. Took about an hour. (1 hour because I had to install hardware, and track down a priviledge level issue on a cuaX.) The actual ppp stuff took abount 10-15 minutes. Dial out with

Re: Lilo query

1997-02-28 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote: |On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: | | | Hi, | | I have a debian system at my office . Since I set it up I have been | booting | using the boot disk. However I decided to try using lilo. So I got the | program by nfs. I created the

Re: PLIP setup?

1997-02-28 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Spineux Alain wrote: I'm trying to configure a PLIP connection between two machines, but I'm having some problems... I get a pair or error messages when I try to configure the plip interface using ifconfig: SIOCSIFADDR: No such device SIOCSIFDSTADDR:

Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

1997-02-27 Thread William Chow
On 26 Feb 1997, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, Bruce == Bruce Perens [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] Time to RTFM, there, Corey. Bruce That's RTM on this list, please. What, You don't think our manuals are Fine? ;-) manoj -- void

RE: Package configuration philosophy

1997-02-26 Thread William Chow
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, Kevin McEnhill wrote: Yoav wrote: #ifdef QUOTE It seems that Debian is taking a rather different philosophy on pre-configured packages than other distributions, such as RedHat. What I snip a comparison of different

Re: HD prob - bad inodes

1997-02-26 Thread William Chow
On Tue, 25 Feb 1997, dr. banzai wrote: I am having problems installing Debian. Here is what happens. The installation goes smoothly until I get to the part where it decompresses the selected packages from dselect. halfway through, it crashes with some kind of kernel memory error and

Re: xemacs is ignoring my tab key

1997-02-26 Thread William Chow
On 26 Feb 1997, James LewisMoss wrote: Harmon == Harmon Sequoya Nine [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harmon Just ran xemacs and was using it to edit a C++ program. Harmon Unfortunately, when I try to indent using my tab key, Harmon xemacs totally ignores it. I've looked through Learning

Re: pine produces segmentation faults (fwd)

1997-02-26 Thread William Chow
On Wed, 26 Feb 1997, Corey Allert wrote: also Xfree86 doesn't run properly .. . it will as root but as any other user X starts as if no window manager is set . . and typing startx -exec fvwm2 will bring up the correct gui but there is no command prompt in the xterm . . . freaky eh?? Time

Re: Thrown away...

1997-02-24 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Martin Schulze wrote: Bjoern Starke writes: Sorry, but it seems that it isn*t possible to install Debian 1.2.6. I have installed Linux (Delix-DLD2.1) 2 Years before and it was an easy thing... But Debian seems to be unuseable. Juhuuu. I have set up my X11

Re: X window problem

1997-02-24 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Lu Jimmy Chenji wrote: On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote: run this after changing environments (i.e. changing to su): export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0 (note: bash specific, csh uses setenv DISPLAY localhost:0.0) If this still fails, run xhost + and

Re: Mail and News with UUCP over TCP/IP

1997-02-24 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Stefan Walder wrote: Hi, I want to use my Linux-Box at home to get mail and news. I'm using my Uni-ISP and i want to have several Email-Adresses (my family). And I don't want to use POP, I think uucp is nicer! So I want to use uucp over TCP/IP! Now my questions:

Re: Help! Messed up my MBR part 2

1997-02-23 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Brian Hutchinson wrote: Here is some more information on my sad state! Maybe I'll be the first to answer the simplest of your questions: The dos mbr can be replaced with dos fdisk: c:\= fdisk /mbr ...RickM...

Re: All of a sudden lost mouse support...

1997-02-23 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Robert Nicholson wrote: Very wierd. I install apm which I've disabled but since I did this gpm says /dev/mouse: Device or resource busy. Did you look at /dev/mouse? Was it pointing at the right device? In your case it's supposed to point at /dev/psaux. If it's not

Re: FTP problems (not DSELECT)

1997-02-23 Thread William Chow
On Sat, 22 Feb 1997, Bubonic wrote: Okay this is weird. I can FTP to my machine, but only to anonymous. UNLESS, the account that I am FTPing to is running bash for a shell. If it is running tcsh, it says: user access denied. Any ideas? I find this rather strange. Yeah, you

Re: Unstable vs. Stable

1997-02-21 Thread William Chow
On 21 Feb 1997, Rob Browning wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: In other words, if you don't have plenty of money, don't use Debian. FUD It just means that you can be as cutting edge as you feel comfortable with/can afford. Many other systems don't even give you that option. Also,

Re: People Demanding Credit in the Press Release Silliness

1997-02-21 Thread William Chow
On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, Daniel Robbins wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Douglas Stewart wrote: On Thu, 20 Feb 1997, Yoav Cohen-Sivan wrote: It is a sort of Press Release whipped-up by the Debian Project Leader. I really didn't intend to chastise him for this - I am a staunch Debian

Re: Weird! My network turns itself off on bootup! Why?

1997-02-19 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, trio wrote: Wow. Now i see a /etc/conf.modules! I was looking for all the *.conf files, but didn't see that one. On the other hand, there's no man page for that either. This file and all related module information is covered in the man pages for modprobe, depmod,

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-19 Thread William Chow
On Wed, 19 Feb 1997, Richard Jones wrote: William Chow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Feb 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: .bashrc and/or .profile (or .cshrc or .zshrc, whatever): eval `dircolors` alias ls 'ls --color=auto' This would

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-19 Thread William Chow
On Tue, 18 Feb 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Version 3.13 of ls has the default dircolors compiled in, so the eval `dircolors` line in the profile is redundant as far as 'ls' is concerned. However, a few other programs (I can't remember which at the moment) depend on the LS-COLORS

Re: wanna trade secondary dns ?

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, mark david mcCreary wrote: I am a new ISP in Texas, with a minimal amount of traffic. I would like to trade secondary domain name service with another one man ISP for redundancy with network or computer problems. Please reply via private email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Epson Stylus 500 apsfilter

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Dany Dionne wrote: I suceeded in installing apsfilter, to print postcript files to my Epson Stylus 500 inkjet printer. I get a result but it seems that the printing is sloppy. To me, it looks like a really low resolution (300 dpi or less). Is there anyway to

Re: Install from CD

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the Cheapbytes Debian 1.2 CD. It has base1_2.tgz and the kernel and the root.bin image on it. Could someone go through the process of installing without any floppies? I think i know how to boot with loadlin and get to the point of

Re: The LSL TriLinux2 CD?

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Paul Seelig wrote: On the other hand there is nothing better than a recently burned writable CD when you want it really uptodate and like being on the edge. But for the same price anybody could get a CheapBytes CD and a very good Linux book. Anybody has bought the new

Re: ls colors gone after upgrade

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On 17 Feb 1997, Michael Harnois wrote: .bashrc and/or .profile (or .cshrc or .zshrc, whatever): eval `dircolors` alias ls 'ls --color=auto' This would be wonderful if it were the correct answer. However, as we This IS the correct answer, WTF are you talking about? I've

Re: lpr - help please!

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Rich Kolbush wrote: Hi, In moving to the 2.x.x kernel I decided to switch to Debian 1.2 from Redhat 2.1, and thus far am very happy with that decision. Thanks to all of you that have helped the Debian project, as it seems great! I'm having a problem getting lpr to

Re: Ungraceful shutdown

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, David L. Parsley wrote: Just HOW BAD is an ungraceful shutdown? I.e., when somebody just hits the power switch? Besides forcing an fsck, would fsck tell me if some file were corrupted? Yup. I've actually trashed parts of filesystems by accidental shutdowns, but this

Re: package compilation

1997-02-18 Thread William Chow
On 17 Feb 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Thank you for the report, this is a real bug in kernel-package version 3.16: vi has, for some obscure reason, started to expand info to information and so on spontaneously. I generally catch it at it,