ware.com). But my experience with
> running linux on vfat has been poor. Blow the $25 on a used 2 GB IDE
> drive and dedicate it to Linux...
Red Hat will also install on a FAT partition; you need a bootdisk
to get into it, though. Lose the disk and you can kiss your Linux
goodbye. And i
nfigure the nic in NE2000-mode? It worked for me (oke it was another card)
I've used the NE2000 module for similar cards. Give it
a go.
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:59:38AM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> | On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote:
> | >
> | > You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think
> | > /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like
> Sam Varghese
On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 11:44:06AM -0400, D-Man wrote:
>
> You need to edit a file in /etc/modutils (I think
> /etc/modutils/local_config is a good name) and include some lines like
The file is /etc/modules.conf
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the installer. I have done that and I have RealPlayer
working on a potato box.
When you initially try to play audio/video off the Net,
you'll get an error saying that the audio device is being
used by another program; change the permissions on /dev/dsp
and it will work.
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Somebody asked about this topic today; I missed
the thread.
For using a 2.4 kernel with potato
take a look at http://www.debian.org/News/2001/20010415
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when you try to play audio or video off the Net.
You'll have to change the permissions for your sound device
as explained in an earlier posting on this list today.
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> me, with Win2k clients!
Works for me too with Win2K clients. My server runs
potato with a 2.2.17 kernel.
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2001 at 09:18:13AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote:
> Okay, I give. What's reiserfs? I keep reading it as "Rye Serfs" and
> giggling.
A journalling filesystem for Linux named after
its creator, Hans Reiser.
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icture.
Dunno about printers (I have an ancient TI Microlaser
that I got for $A70 at one of our local swap meets)
but I have an Epson 640U USB scanner that can be used
for professional work.
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F86Setup or xf86config from the command line after logging in
as root and set up x.
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> "Sean" == Sean 'Shaleh' Perry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> IMNSHO the LSB seriously erred on this, the .deb format makes
>> far more sense as a baseline package format standard then rpm
>> for the simple reason that the .deb format isn't really a
>> format, its just an ar a
> "Stephen" == Stephen Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Stephen> I got bit by this one, too. Here's how I went diagnosing
Stephen> it: ## to get list of recent changed logs # ls -ltr
Sorry about this; fix at
http://incoming.debian.org/libpam-modules_0.72-26_i386.deb.
systems. I will be more careful of my testing procedure in
the future and will avoid introducing errors after I have already
confirmed things work.
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20:02 sammo /sbin/rpc.statd[154]: Caught signal 15, un-registering
and exiting.
Apr 19 12:20:02 sammo kernel: Kernel logging (proc) stopped.
Apr 19 12:20:02 sammo kernel: Kernel log daemon terminating.
Apr 19 12:20:02 sammo exiting on signal 15
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se.alias.dpkg-new and, by some hocus-pocus, replace the contents of
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/.
But the update-fonts.alias manpage is very cryptic about how this all gets
done, and, in fact, how I deal with that dpkg-new file.
I would sure appreciate some help.
Thanks,
sam
I'm trying to install Debian on my laptop. My card is listed at
http://www.xfree86.org/cardlist.html
as supported. Is a generic driver the only thing that is offered? The best
resolution I can get is
640x480. I configure it for 800x600 and 16 bit color with no luck.
Sam
>>>>> "Matthew" == Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matthew> On 1 Mar 2001, Sam Hartman wrote:
>> 1) MIT does have a pointer to Kerberos at cryptopublish.org
>> which you can grab if you want MIT code outside the US.
Matthe
1) MIT does have a pointer to Kerberos at cryptopublish.org which you
can grab if you want MIT code outside the US.
2) You need to build your own Heimdal packages with krb4 support
compiled in if you want to use AFS. Brian's packages are krb5
only.
the
name of the package, if you're lucky it'll exist. Until Debian has a functionally structured package repository
there isn't really a better solution.
At least one of them has a Debian package (gpgp), but gpgp is ... well, just
oozing with opportunities for features, shall we say.
. I think I just need to get gpm
to talk the equivalent of X's "MouseManPlusPS/2", like perhaps the mouse is
detecting that it's being accessed in a 3 button protocol or something and
translating the buttons for me. Hmm.
I'll have a chat with the GPM authors
$filename or
print STDERR "utime call of $filename failed; $!\n";
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Sam.
On Sun, 31 Dec 2000 14:04:57 -0500
Maciej Kalisiak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> Is it possible to grep a ton of files without modifying their date/timestamps?
"Intellimouse"
Option "Device""/dev/gpmdata"
Option "Buttons" "4"
EndSection
Does anyone know if this is possible? There seems to be no "-4" option to gpm
(or "-5&q
ut it was still
failing, with the only sign in the logs. Perviously, mutt had mailed
to send it at all.
Does anyone have an idea as to how this could have happened, or how it
can be fixed? I've tried reinstalling postfix, and I'm sending this
with exim, which seems to work fine.
at the console after
> typing in my name and password. I read through /etc/login.defs and
> there was a reference to a file that I thought this message was coming
> from, but the file didn't exist.
Change the file /etc/motd to whatever you want to see when you lo
y appreciate the answer..
>
apt-get install dlocate
dlocate libGLU.so
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as? Does Mozilla not
> accept SSL yet?
>
You need the PAM module to use SSL. Check the Mozilla website.
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AIK they are about equally good/fast for purpose of file
> transfer...
HTTP has less overhead, IIRC. For example, resumable FTP transfers
require passing additional data. No such thing for HTTP. By
stripping out all the overhead, HTTP has fewer features, but is
faster.
sa
t believe in free
software.
:-(
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eone give me a recomenadtion as to which one to use
> with
> Gnome?
>
GNOME has a standard for compliant window managers. As far as I know,
Sawfish, WindowMaker and Enlightenment are all compatible, and others
may be also.
The most popular, and I believe the standard, is S
I ended up cding to /dev and doing MAKEDEV pty and everything works fine
now.
~Sam
On 12 Apr 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:
> Well, here are the permissions for /dev/ptyXX
>
> crw-rw-rw-1 root tty2, 176 Mar 8 19:39 /dev/ptya0
>
> I don't think that
As a matter of fact I have recently recompiled my kernel but both Eterm
and wterm work normally as root.
~Sam
On 12 Apr 2000, Marshal Kar-Cheung Wong wrote:
> >>>>> "sam" == sam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I recently installed both wter
t. Is this a path issue? permissions issue?
~Sam
You can find debs for KDE at Storm Linux's ftp, ftp.stormix.com and I'm
pretty sure you could get them from Corel too.
~Sam
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Kent Nyberg wrote:
> Where can i find kde in .deb ??
> I have licq fron potato so i dont want kde to get in trouble with
> my existing qt libraries.
>
>
>
>
>
If you use KDE, you always have the option of using it's file manager
(kfm) as a web browser. It's pretty speedy. I don't use KDE but I have it
installed and sometimes use kfm with WindowMaker.
~Sam
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Dan Hutchinson wrote:
> Does anyone know of a web browser
indow managers that use a lot less resources
than KDE. I use WindowMaker. Check freshmeat for other choices, there are
a lot out there.
~Sam
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, [iso-8859-1] Jos? Mar?a Pongilioni [iso-8859-1] L?pez
wrote:
> One question: I have problems with Netscape Communicator 4.5.
&g
Maybe if you would the question u would see that I dont use lilo. I tried
adding it to loadlin and that didn't work.
~Sam
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > ok, First let me say that I do NOT use lilo so don't tell me edit
> > lilo.conf. I boot with load
2512 1840 26848 4452 27016
-/+ buffers/cache: 31044 33308
Swap: 131000 1688 129312
I am using kernel 2.2.14
~Sam
Edit /etc/default/rcS
In the line that says GMT make sure its GMT="" and not GMT"-u"
After fixing that run /etc/init.d/hwclock.sh start
I had the same problem.
~Sam
On Sat, 8 Apr 2000, Doug Bean << Mr Bean's Internet >> wrote:
> I have a small problem
You didn't compile sound support into the kernel did you? Also, this
kernel doesn't work if you are using a kernel with SMP enabled. For the
driver to work sound support has to be compiled as a module
(soudcore.o) and SMP has to be disabled.
~Sam
On 6 Apr 2000, Joachim Trinkwitz wro
Go to this site and download the source for the sblive kernel module
(emu10k1) http://opensource.creative.com/
Once that is compiled, cp it to /lib/modules/kernelversion#here/misc/
Then:
insmod soundcore
insmod emu10k1
If that doesnt work substitute modprobe where the insmod's are.
~Sam
The copy of Storm I had came with xf86 3.3.5. Also, I have found that a
lot of the power user types (myself included) dislike Storm at first but
once they "delamerize" it a bit they really like it a lot.
~Sam
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, aphro wrote:
> woulda been nice if storm had upd
k and
I've been pretty happy with it.
~Sam
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, massa confusa wrote:
> I have read that corel linux is based on debian. Does anyone on this list
> use it and can they tell me any more about it? Thanks,
>
> mary
>
>
>
Use pico, it has the same layout as pine and all the keystokes are listed
at the bottom of the screen at all times. I you run pico -m it enables
mouse support.
~Sam
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, John Gould wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>I need to give a couple of users a simple edito
ange
this. Any ideas (don't tell me to run xf86config again I'd rather just
know where the setting it)
~Sam Morales
Hello,
How do you allow FTP clients, when uploading files, to overwrite same
existing files on the server?
I understand that some FTP servers have the /etc/ftpaccess, which I
don't see under my etc directory. The only one that I is ftpusers.
Debian 2.0
Thanks in advance.
Sam
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> RAVIKANT K RAO wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Sam Babak wrote:
> >
> > > I was given a job to administer sendmail v8.7 on Debian/Linux and I am
> > > new to Linux.
> >
> > wow , great! In everybody's opinion , if you&#
.
Could you please help me figure out how to reconfigure Debian / Sendmail
in order for me to telnet and access sendmail as a root? I know that
first I have to login as a user and then use su to change to the root.
I appreciate your help very much.
thanks.
Sam Babak
and hard links. You probably won't
> encounter any of these on /usr (although you might!). But why do it wrong
> when you can do it right?
Or go the whole way:
cd /usr
find . -depth -print | cpio -pdmuV /linux2a
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/http.us.debian.org/ potato main" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
# apt-get update
# apt-get install dhcpcd kernel-image-2.2.10
# perl -npi~ -e '!m/ potato /' /etc/apt/sources.list
This will give you the minimum number of packages from the Potato
distribution that will let you run dhcpcd
Benjamin Low <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> but I can find no reference to untic. Can tic 'untic' given appropriate
> arguments?
"infocmp" is the command you're after.
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Hi,
I just can not use DHCP on my Linux box.
My kernel is 2.2.9
I get the following error:
dhcpcd[1158]: ioctl SIOCSIFBRDADDR (ifConfig): Cannot assign requested
address
since it was giving me this, I tried option -r, does not work either...
As an example, strace dhcpcd -r -d gives me this:
Running slink...
My .xsession-errors fills up with missing fonts: Helvitica, Lucida, Times,
maybe some
others. I've installed all of the relevent packages (I think) from
ftp.debian.org. Is there
somewhere else I need to get these fonts?
And could this be why Gimp is seg faulting?
Thanks.
I'm new to Linux and I just moved from Red Hat to Debian.
Before installing Debian I put in a SIIG PCI serial card
and removed my ISA serial card. Unfortunately, Debian doesn't
seem to see the card.
Any tips? Thanks,
Sam
eplys but they never came up with the letter I was looking
for.
I know it is there someplace because I saw it a few months ago and at the time
I was
not that interested in the subject and did not save it.
It has been very frustrating for me to search the archives on several occasions.
Sam
Anthon
I have been lurking on this group.
What text do I need to get to interpret what all this language means,
such as:
" /dev/hda1 /dos vfat defaults,umask=002,uid=0,gid=35 0 0"
I am a complete novice and want to install Linux, but I see I need to
learn a new language before I start.
TIA
Sam
ds in them
that look like Greek to me, so I am afraid I won't know what to type
when the CD starts processing. Where does one find what all the commands
mean? There is no Glossary in the manual.
HELP!
TIA
SAM
How do I set up a new DNS and new network card?
Can Linux connect to a IBM Mainframe - on windows I use
software that has
something called "TN3270" or a IRMA gateway allows
me to connect via a
VT100 like terminal. What package would work for this - it
does not seem
to be listed in the package
descriptions.
I need to take the diff of two directories recursively, but am not just
interested in what files are different...I'm also interested in if the dates
of the files are different, the uids, the gids, and the permissions. Anyone
know of a program to tell me all of this?
Thanks
Sam
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good.
And, of course, you need Accelerated X for some notebooks/weird video cards.
(BTW, congrats to the XFree86/Matrox development team for the spectacular
work they do.)
-Sam
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> Hi Will,
>
> Been using AcceleratedX fo
Everything has to come from a package in main stable Debian though...is
this? I'm also mainly looking for an X-version tetris, although I'm not
opposed to also having a console/vga tetris.
Thanks
Sam
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> > I'm work
I'm working on a standard set of packages that can be easily installed for
Debian, and want to pick one of the tetrises (or is it tetrii) to include in
the load...what is everyone's favorite tetris version?
Thanks
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h, I would look at Staroffice before
Applixware. Staroffice is much more similar to Office 95 then Applixware
is.
Good luck...
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Huh...that must be itdon't I feel foolish...
I guess I was just nervous because something deleted my inetd.conf file when
I installed 1.3 on a different machine a long time ago..
Thanks....
-Sam
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> On Thu Jul 24 12:45:31 -0
rc.symlinkIt's nowhere
else on the disk. Where does it belong??
Thanks
Sam
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> I just installed Debian 1.3.1, and spent several harrowing hours getting
> exactly the packages I want (working out dependancies, etc.) I was just
le sizes, dates, permissions, etc. are different then
what comes with the package?
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/usr/local makes it easier to keep track of the stuff you did
vs. the stuff the package manager (Debian) did Under the Linux File
Standard, distributions can't use local directories...they are there only
for your use. For example, you should never delete a binary from
/usr/bin, but inst
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> > At work I sit behind a firewall. The firewall lets me out for whatever I
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> > distributed with Debian and my firewa
..but the two
Debian machines at home take several minutes to let me in, and
master.debian.org won't let me in at all, or maybe I just haven't waited
long enough for it to timeout.
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How do I control which computers get polled for rwho, rusers, etc. Is it
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> On Wed, 7 May 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
>
> > What do you think is causing this:
> >
> > May 5 07:23:26 panther kernel: hda: WDC AC21200H, 1222MB w/128kB Cache,
> > LBA, CHS=2484/16/63, DMA
> >
>
Debian 1.3 seems to turn messages off by default for users. I know I can
put "mesg on" in the default login files either in skel or etc, but is
there anyway to do it that is not shell specific
Thanks,
Sam
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Anyone know of any really good looking screen-savers...something like
xlock, but that looks more like something Microsoft will have in Windows
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27;t fix
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least
Thanks for the help...
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(By the way Rick...I'm sure this has nothing to do with trafshow...try
running e2fsck with a -c and let us know what happens.)
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}, LBAsect=2357025,
sector=1280476
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r from the year 1999 to 2000, so probably the best thing
would be to set your computer's date to Dec. 31, 1999, and see what
happens to your processes when it hits midnight.
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ht be the problem that the other person on this news group is having.)
Any ideas as to why this might be so?
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Excellent. This is something that I've longed for for months. Thank you
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