Re: Printing on win95

1999-01-14 Thread tko
Brant Wells writes: > Howdy all... > > I've got samba set up to where I can print to a shared printer... But > the files have to be text files, and I have to do it manually from the > smb:> prompt :( > > WP8 will go through the motions, but will not print to the printer... > > I created a

SoundBlaster Vibra16 card

1999-01-14 Thread tko
Sorry about getting in the tail end of this thread. I just went round and round with this very same card. I have it working under Debian. This is what I had to do: 1) Go into the BIOS - PNP/ISA menu and turn off the "Is there a PNP OS installed?" option. Doing this forces the BIOS to assign defaul

Re: printing to a win95 shared printer *sigh*

1999-01-14 Thread tko
Richard A Nelson writes: > > Has anyone setup lprng to print to a win95 shared printer? > The printer in question is a HP DeskJet 870. > > I've been printing to the printer locally, but had to move the printer > to a box that runs mostly lose 95. If you haven't already installed SAMBA, you shoul

Re: _very_ reproducable WP8 X client lib error.

1998-12-29 Thread tko
Stan Brown writes: > I am having a reproducable problem with WP*. It must be a clinet side > library problem, since it ccurs even on remote X servers. > > If you go to "Format", and select "Labels" then select a label, and > press "OK" WP says an X server error has occured.

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread tko
Charles Collicutt writes: [snip] > I'm going to wait a bit longer before I make up my mind, but the > temptation to let the Winborg empire assimilate me is getting stronger - > which is a shame because you guys are a hell of a lot nicer than your Thanks for the kudos. > average Windows luser :) I

Re: Piped unpipable output [Xserver troubles]

1998-12-13 Thread tko
Christian Lavoie writes: [troubles] Christian, looks like you lack a valid "modeline". Check your monitor spec's vs the available modelines. Most video cards are capable of displaying far more video formats than the monitor is capable of displaying (without messing up or worse - burning out). --

Re: Piping unpipable output.

1998-12-11 Thread tko
Christian Lavoie writes: [problem with capturing error messages from X server] Christain, invoke 'script' before running 'startx'. When you get back to the command line prompt (from startx), invoke 'exit' and everything which appeared on your screen will be captured in a text file called 'typescr

Re: help please! still unknown interface and SIOCSIFADDR!!!!!

1998-12-08 Thread tko
Rino Mardo writes: > So I checked everywhere (HOWTOs, #Linux, FAQs) and couldn't find out why I > can't use my 3C509B NIC even after recompiling the kernel. So I thought I'd > use the NE2000 nic since it is loaded with the kernel by default. Guess > what? Though it says 8390 loaded during th

Re: first attempt to run UUCP; failed

1998-12-05 Thread tko
Eugene Sevinian writes: > Hi all, > I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine, > via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list, Sorry about that, I was clouding the issue with my previous answer. OK, you will need to setup UUCP on both machines. One of the machine will have

Re: first attempt to run UUCP; failed

1998-12-03 Thread tko
Eugene Sevinian writes: > Hi all, > I am trying to connect 2 Debian machine, > via uucp. I am not sure that I will find answer in this mailing list, > however I will try to discribe the problem shortly. At the very initial > stage of communication chat script is getting NO CARRIER and exit. > At

Re: Win95/Linux network problem

1998-11-10 Thread tko
Rodrigo Moya writes: > Hi all! > > I've got a Win95 machine and a linux machine connected via ethernet cards > (Realtek in both) but cannot 'ping' from one to another. This is the > configuration I've got: > > Windows->hostname: windows.cyllan.com > IP address: 192.168.1.2

Re: cdda2wav won't recognize my CD-ROM

1998-11-08 Thread tko
Jason Lunz writes: [snip] > I do have the generic SCSI driver installed (as a module, sg.o), and the > only other lead I've found from reading stuff in /usr/doc/cdda2wav is > that I might need to define something with /dev/MAKEDEV, but I can find devices 21,(0-6) which correspond to sg(0-6), You w

Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

1998-11-02 Thread tko
George Bonser writes: > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > > > The Solaris box is getting an access denied. According to the Linux > > logs, it is specifically denying the Solaris box. The kernel is > > 2.0.35. Both automounting and manual mounting don`t work. I even > > changed the ex

Re: Trying to NFS mount Linux from Solaris 2.6

1998-11-01 Thread tko
Bruce Jackson writes: > George Bonser wrote: > > > > On Sun, 1 Nov 1998, Bruce Jackson wrote: > > > > > rpc.mountd and rpc.nfsd are running. What is the lockd bug? Looked on > > > deja news and didn`t see a solution. Not trying to do it at the same > > > time now, maybe in the future. > > > >

Re: [ale] Locking up Linux (how to?)

1998-11-01 Thread tko
Eric Webb writes: [Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...] > On Sat, 31 Oct 1998 11:43:05 -0500 (EST), > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [ale] Locking up Linux (how to?): > > Nick Lucent writes: > > -- Start of PGP signed section. > > > On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Eric Webb wrote: > > >

more diald madness

1998-10-21 Thread tko
I reported earlier that adding the "hostname" to the /etc/hosts file entry would stop the repeated dialdings. I found out to my chagrin, that the problem was not solved. I reread the diald.faq file and tried this solution: 1) shutdown diald 2) edit /etc/diald/diald.options and make the local IP a

Re: Waiting for scripts in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d

1998-10-21 Thread tko
Moore, Paul writes: > >From:Peter Iannarelli[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Hello: > > > >Wouldn't it just be cleaner to use dial on demand (diald) > >which would automatically bring up and/or turn down the > >link based on idle time. > > Sorry, I should have said this. Diald won't work for two

Re: phantom in diald queue

1998-10-21 Thread tko
David S. Zelinsky writes: > Using diald, with a dynamic IP address, I sometimes get an annoying "phantom" > in the packet queue. It's usually something like: > > /80 => /1234 > > evidently coming from an aborted http transfer. The stale local address is > the IP address I had on some prev

Re: diald auto-dial bug/feature

1998-10-18 Thread tko
Michael Beattie writes: > I imagine you have no NIC? If so, then for people that do, probably dont > need to do this. e.g.: No Sir, I do have a NIC installed. I'm using an unrouted address (192.168.x.x) And diald was doing the dirty deed 8-) inspite of the additional information in my /etc/hosts f

diald auto-dial bug/feature

1998-10-17 Thread tko
I asked on the list if anyone could tell me how to find what process was connecting to a socket. lsof looked promising but did not work as advertised in it's documentation. However, I did some detective work and found that "diald" was the culprit. Here's how it happens: diald is started by the ini

look up process

1998-10-12 Thread tko
I was having trouble with diald bringing up the line. A dump of the /var/log/ppp.log showed something connecting to local (127.0.0.1) and sending a DNS request (port 53 on destination IP). Is there a way to query a connection to find out which process is doing the connection? I'd sure like to know

Re: Cannot run any executables under Debian2.0 - Help(newbie)

1998-10-12 Thread tko
Helge Hafting writes: [snip] > Note that your PATH does not contain the current directory (.) This is > default for Debian, and is considered a security feature. I believe you > can run standard executables like "ls" and such? > > To run the a.out file, use "./a.out" instead of only "a.out" > The

diald

1998-10-08 Thread tko
How do I get diald to ignore a non-routable lan address like 192.168.x.x ? I had a situation were I was pinging the nodes in my 192.168.x.x lan and one machine was off-line. Diald started dialing when IMHO, it should have ignored the packet. So, I must have something not correctly configured. The m

june 1998 CDrom disk set - Debian

1998-09-28 Thread tko
I recently purchased the June 1998 InfoMagic 6 CD set. On the back of the case, it clearly states that the Debian 2.0 distribution was included in the set. I mounted the "debian binary" disk and got this for the directory: Debian-1.3.1 TRANS.TBL boot doc stable READ_CD.txt

new SCSI driver

1998-09-25 Thread tko
I purchased a new PCI based SCSI card locally and was dismayed to find that the 2.0.3x kernels did not support this card. I went surfing and found the "linux ready" driver for this card (source code no less!) So my question here is: What do I have to do to fully integrate this new SCSI driver into

Re: OFF TOPIC: W/95 term progs > COM5?

1998-09-22 Thread tko
Edward J Young writes: [snip] > I need to use the board to communicate serialy with some other systems. To > do this I need a com program that will work with com5 and above. I know > this is possible, but since com ports above 4 are nonstandard in the > W/World, most programs don't go up there. I

Re: problem with installation

1998-09-18 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [stuff deleted] > Maybe someone would tell me how to install linux with floppys exactly. Try a fresh format on all 7 floppies (full format, not the quick format). All it takes is one flakey sector on the floppy to torpedo you. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas K

Re: Copying files over samba

1998-09-13 Thread tko
Jieyao writes: > Hi, > > I am thinking of doing something as follows... > > I have a debian and a win95 connected over a network and samba is running. > I am thinking of setting up something like a 'mutual backup'. That is, I want > some data files on the win95 to be backup to the debian and vic

Re: SAMBA: multiple connections, same login

1998-09-11 Thread tko
bmorgan writes: > I'm having trouble connecting to my debian machine from my windows > machine using samba. I've successfully done this before, but now I've > got several users connecting to the samba server for IP printing to > jet-direct boxes. Right now, I've got my SMB.CONF file set so that i

Re: cdrom ??

1998-09-09 Thread tko
spOOL writes: > I was reading your response to the question about the hdc: no response > (status = 0xd0) at boot. > > I have this same problem. I think it may have occurred after I installed > the wrong PIIX4 drivers for my motherboard. Now win95, doesn't like my Should be straight forward to rep

Re: hdc: no response (status = 0xd0)

1998-09-03 Thread tko
Zlatko Rek writes: > I've installed Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 on a new machine from CD. The basic > installation went OK, until I made a reboot. After that, the CD drive > is not recognized (boot from floppy or disk): > > ide: i82371 PIIX (Triton) on PCI bus 0 function 57 > ide0: BM-DMA

Re: majordomo

1998-09-02 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Hello folks :-) > > > Please, I need help about create a list in majordomo. > > I read the **newlist** file (where there is instructions to create a > list), but I does not understand the step 7: > > --

Re: Connection Refused

1998-08-20 Thread tko
Kennedy Mutio writes: > I have just installed debian linux onto a machine and added it to my > network but I cannot telnet frm any other machine on the network to this > new machine. I have checked the hosts.allow and hosts.deny files in /etc > and changed them. I might have done this wrong but doe

Re: [ale] SB16 PnP Problems

1998-08-17 Thread tko
Benjamin Dixon writes: > > > I've never been able to get my SB16 ViBra Pnp to work. Using sndconfig I > alaways get "dsp reset failed". I'm pretty certain my isapnp.conf file is > set up correctly as I see information pertaining to it just before I see > the sound driver loading. When I try to pl

Re: Starting Over

1998-08-12 Thread tko
Marcus Johnson writes: [snip] > On this,( my first ever installation of Linux) I installed stable > Hamm using LSL's version of the official 2.0 release. Everything went > swimmingly until I got to right before dselect/dpkg where it asks you > to pick which installation type you want. I picked co

CPAN modules

1998-08-03 Thread tko
Quick question - Where is the best directory to locate the modules to? I have the CPAN library on CD and would like a pointer on where to put them. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ..

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-08-02 Thread tko
Steve Lamb writes: > > On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a "win95" system? > > Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of > mine. > > > That "fabulous, great, decent OS" loses it's mind! You se

Re: linux software

1998-07-31 Thread tko
Geoff Brimhall writes: > > Create a binary file, that contains the bit you want. > > The on the shell command line, execute the following command: > > cat binary_file_name > /dev/lp1. > > or whichever device is your printer. If you store the word as a sequence of 10 bytes, you could simulate a

Re: Linus Torvalds interview

1998-07-31 Thread tko
Please allow me my two cents of experience with Lost95 (if they don't 'Win', they 'lost') C.J.LAWSON writes: > > On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Alexander wrote: > > Well, Windows is a decent OS if you know how to use and configure it right > > (and work around its many bugs). If you can't deal with bugs i

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-25 Thread tko
Keith writes: [snip] > > > I need some more help with this problem. > > > > Ok, look at /etc/init.d/boot and let us know what the 'GMT=' line is set to. > > I think you have found the problem. Here is what it says in my > /etc/init.d/boot > > # Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT,

Re: Time is still not right.

1998-07-24 Thread tko
Keith writes: > > My time is still not right. > > My hardware clock is right if I type clock this is what > I get: > > debian# clock > Thu Jul 23 20:07:06 1998 > --- > If I type date this is what I get > > debian# date > Thu Jul 23 16:07:40 EDT 1998 > ---

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread tko
Gary L. Hennigan writes: > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > | Martin Oldfield writes: > | > > | > > | > I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE > | > controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: > | > > | > IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1).

Re: hdparm

1998-07-17 Thread tko
Martin Oldfield writes: > > > I'd like to improve the IDE performance of my system. The IDE > controllers are on a newish Intel motherboard; /proc/pci says: > > IDE interface: Intel 82371AB 430TX PIIX4 (rev 1). > > The drives are older: > > Model=QUANTUM FIREBALL ST6.4A, FwRev=A0F.0800, Seria

FIXED IT! - IDE stopped working

1998-07-09 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: > Check that you did include support for IDE/ATAPI cd-roms and enchanced > IDE/MMF/RLL support. Also check that did you include support for SCSI- > emulation. > > One thing could be that some card goes to irq 15 in boot and messes things > up. > > If those do not help

Re: Missing (files)

1998-07-08 Thread tko
Brandon Mitchell writes: > > On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Syed Huq wrote: > > > ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ > > > > All the files are there except base14-1.bin ... base14-6.bin. Instead of > > these, I see the files base-1.bin ... base-5.bin. > > > > Q1)Should I download the b

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-08 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: > > >> Jaakko Niemi writes: > >> > > >> > >> Jaakko Niemi writes: > >> > >> > > >> > >> > >> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, > >> > >> > >> the secondary > >> > >> > >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen > >> > >> >

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-06 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: > > >> Jaakko Niemi writes: > >> > > >> > >> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the > >> > >> secondary > >> > >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows > >> > >> the IDE > >> > >> primary bus as being probed, but no

Re: IDE stopped working

1998-07-03 Thread tko
Jaakko Niemi writes: > > >> All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the > >> secondary > >> IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE > >> primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How > >> can > >> I get the k

IDE stopped working

1998-07-02 Thread tko
All was good until I changed motherboards. All of a sudden now, the secondary IDE bus does not properly detect the cdrom drive. The screen shows the IDE primary bus as being probed, but no secondary bus. I use LILO to boot. How can I get the kernel (2.0.32) to properly probe/detect the secondary ID

memory leak

1998-06-25 Thread tko
Something that I'm running is leaking memory like crazy. How do I find this memory leak and more importantly, how does one fix it? I have 128Meg of memory on the system and when I first boot up, the system has 99Meg free. After running for a day or two, I'm dipping into the swap space and the /proc

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-23 Thread tko
Ulisses Alonso Camaro writes: > On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > > As the data is available (via Shift-Pageup) then there surely must be a > > way of getting to it and saving it. I tried with /dev/vcs* but got only > > the current screen. Maybe in /proc/??? somewhere? A Linux g

Re: /etc/init.d/boot message?

1998-06-22 Thread tko
David Wright writes: > > On Fri, 19 Jun 1998, Mark Yobb wrote: > > > > I know how to use `dmesg` but I would really like to be able to get > > the info that scrolls across my screen (on bootup) when /etc/init.d/boot is > > executing. Is this message sent to a log file or something? How

Re: .maildelivery, "to:" line, exmh, & spam

1998-06-22 Thread tko
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: > > > reading through a newsgroup, someone pointed out what should have been > obvious: bulk emailings almost never have a "to:" or "cc:" in the header, > and > that mail could be filtered to a junk box in this manner. > > But looking through the exmh document

Re: A must read for all Linux and computer lovers

1998-06-17 Thread tko
Shaleh writes: > > There is an article from a month or so ago on Salon Magazine's site by > Ellen Ullman. She discusses her trip into the world without Microsoft > from a techie point of view. It is an absolute must read for anyone who > wants to know "why", rather than just use something. The

Re: print permissions

1998-06-17 Thread tko
Hamish Moffatt writes: > > On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 08:14:00AM -0400, Paul Miller wrote: > > How can I control who can print and who can't? > > I am guessing, but I guess you could put everyone who may print > in the lp group, and remove the setgid bit on /usr/bin/lpr* -- but > then those users wi

Re: wav to mp3

1998-06-16 Thread tko
Jens Ritter writes: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Beattie) writes: > > > On Fri, 12 Jun 1998, Norbert Veber wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:31:59AM +0200, Jens Ritter wrote: > > > > "Timothy C. Phan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > > > I'd like

Re: wav to mp3

1998-06-08 Thread tko
Timothy C. Phan writes: > > Hi, > > I'd like to know if there is a tool that would convert wav file > to mp3 file! > > Thanks! > Go to www.8hz.com They have a "FREE" wave to mp3 converter. I've used it and it works pretty slick. -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CI

Re: Booting stops since CD-Recorder is connected

1998-05-26 Thread tko
Stefan Kunkel writes: > > Hi > I have a little Problem with my Debian-Kernel since i have connected > my Yamaha CDR-102 ! > When i boot from DOS, the Kernel finds all SCSI-Devices (including > the Recorder), but then he tries to find something on the ID of the > Recorder with the LUN of 1 and t

Re: samba

1998-05-15 Thread tko
Timothy C. Phan writes: > > Hi, > > I've trying to work on the samba for file/directory sharing > from my Linux box to NT without any luck. Would someone please > tell me which doc in the /usr/doc/samba to look at? Thanks! > > I just want other PC can read file from /pub/debian in this

StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread tko
Disregard my previous request for help. I figured it out. 1) un-tar the files in /usr/local (as root), 2) cd to the new directory "StarOffice-3.1" and run : ./setup /net as your normal login account. When prompted for a directory to store the files, use the default. Worked slick as a button and t

StarOffice

1998-04-24 Thread tko
I know that this has been asked before, but how does one install StarOffice for multiple users? I've downloaded "common", "english", and "statbin" tarballs of StarOffice. Thanks! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for corre

Re: Linux as a eMail/Internet server.

1998-04-21 Thread tko
Alistair Phillips writes: > > Hi there fellow Linux fans (Debian and the like!) > > About 6 months ago I stumbled upon the greatest find of my life. Someone > had told me about a wonderful OS that multitasked great, handled 100's of > users, had very little requiremets and was a all round OS for

Re: Windoze 95 is not multi-tasking, it just pretends it is

1998-04-21 Thread tko
DAVID B. TEAGUE writes: [snip] > > HEAR HEAR! This is not inappropriate discussion for the Deb User list. > > I too play double bass myself (or bass violin as Professor Murray > Grodner called it, and the folk who succeeded Professor Grodner and his > wife at Lemur Music call it as well.) > >

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-20 Thread tko
Paul Miller writes: [snip] > hmm... I have 64 megs of EDO RAM and two ~104 meg swap paritions and Linux > rarely touches them, and even if it does, it only uses less than 10 megs.. > Has Linux decided my 6-year old, 208 meg drive is too slow? NO, Linux does not care. You have to determine if that

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] > > Why have two "DOS" bootable drives? In my experience, "DOS" only likes to > > see > > one main bootable drive. [snip] One other item which I did not mention: The bootable "DOS" drive _must_ be the first one detectable by "DOS". > > This is the setup of my three

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: [snip] > I tried booting anyway but it failed, complaining that it wasn't a system > disk. However my Dad (whose disk it was before giving it to me) swears it > was bootable. > > So what's wrong? On my father's computer the disk was disk C: where as > now it is /dev/hdc (th

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-16 Thread tko
Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > The second thing that you can do is to move up to the new "ultra-DMA" > > IDE drives. The bandwidth (bytes per second) is much higher than the > > standard IDE drives and will speed up Linux as a whole. > > If you want to really speed up your hard drives, switch to mult

Re: Faster swap by using separate disk?

1998-04-15 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: > > > I have been wondering about whether putting a swap partition on one IDE > drive, while putting most of linux on a different IDE drive will speed up > swap by allowing both disks to be accessed at the same time. > > Unfortunately I think I read somewhere that when you

Re: New drive--->lilo warning

1998-04-15 Thread tko
Mark Phillips writes: > > > Hi, > > I have just installed a third IDE hard drive (my board supports up to 4). > I have configured the BIOS. Now I want to use lilo to make it possible to > boot from it (it currently has DOS on it), but when I try, it comes up > with: > > # lilo > Added linux

Re: Outgoing Message Error

1998-04-11 Thread tko
Michael Acklin writes: > > Hello, > > I have just installed majordomo version 1.94.1 on my Linux (debian) > system, version 1.3.1, kernel 2.029. I am using smail version 3.2.3. All > programs, majordomo and smail were compiled for debian linux version 1.31. > > I was wondering if an

kernel 2.0.33

1998-04-06 Thread tko
Since I've upgraded to this kernel(2.0.33), whenever a "vfat" partition is mounted, the kernel complains about not being able to find "NLS charset cp437" module. I haven't found anywhere in the "menuconfig" options a listing for that module. Any hints as to where one can find it? -- -= Sent b

Re: why does the kernel suck up memory?

1998-04-06 Thread tko
Klaus Wacker writes: [snip] Thanks for you reply. Strangely enough, the original problem of all physical ram being allocated was solved by upgrading the kernel from 2.0.30 to 2.0.33 Just wanted everyone to know 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@wes

swap space

1998-04-02 Thread tko
I asked earlier on this list about why memory is sucked up into buffers. I appreciate the answers and thank everyone who responded. Now I have a new question: why won't the kernel release the swap space that it apparently needed sometime earlier? The kernel is 2.0.30 Here's a snapshot of /proc/mem

why does the kernel suck up memory?

1998-03-30 Thread tko
I've noticed that when I added more memory, the extra memory went into "buffers". Why? I don't have a heavily loaded system which would require massive buffers. How can I change the kernel to stop with this unnecessary behavior? I'm trying to keep from using swap space. Once a swap partition is acc

Re: sdram and linux

1998-03-30 Thread tko
tony mollica writes: > > Hi. Just looking for a little more info. > > Just installed 64megs 168 pin sdram (replacing the 64megs of the usual > type 72 pin edo stuff) in my system and it appears > to be causing file system corruption, as indicated on boot > up by fsck (attempted boot up, actually)

Re: On Debian, currently.

1998-03-22 Thread tko
Manoj Srivastava writes: > Well, some one has indeed moved on to wider Horizons. The > ex-project leader of Debian, who is very widely respected, has indeed > left the project, and we are poorer for that. No argument about that. 8-) > > But then, everything changes and adapts (or

multi-tray IDE CDrom drives

1998-03-18 Thread tko
Picked up a NEC 4 tray IDE CDrom drive. Debian sees the base tray (1 of 4). How does one access the other 3 trays? It would be cool to be able to load binary and source disks into the same drive and have access to both (probably with different mounting points) 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =

Re: lilo, linux and win95

1998-03-16 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > howdy all.:-) > > Just installed Debian linux and win95 on a system and wish to have dual boot > > system with LILO as boot manager. > > cfdisk shows: > > /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it) > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux

Re: tiff to rla?

1998-03-14 Thread tko
Bruce Dobrin writes: > > Thanks for the suggestion, Are there different versions? The version of I= > magemake (convert) that I have will read rla's but not write them You may want to check with the Debian maintainer and/or the upstream maintainer/developer to see if a newer version exis

Re: netscape install

1998-03-14 Thread tko
tony mollica writes: > > I have used the netscape install scripts to install 4.03 and > then upgrade to 4.04 without any problems at all. Of course, > dpkg doesn't know it's there, but netscape communicator works > just fine. Instructions are in the readme files in the > downloaded .tar.gz. >

netscape install

1998-03-10 Thread tko
I am ready to install netscape on my system, but have a problem. The netscape loader is for version 3.01. "ftp.netscape.com" only has version 3.04 or the newer communicator 4.0x versions. Version 3.01 is not available. My system is a bo (1.3.1) system. What can I do to get netscape installed? --

default blanking

1998-03-10 Thread tko
I know that this has been asked before, but please refresh my memory... The default screen blanking is shutting off the X windows display preventing the long term usage of the screen savers. How do I disable the console default blanking so that I can use the screen savers instead? Thanks. -- -=

Re: massive fetchmail frustration

1998-03-06 Thread tko
Britton writes: [snip] Sorry, can't help you with fetchmail, Yet 8-) > Some related questions: > > Is there an elegant userland way to bring up a ppp link and retrieve mail > every day at a specified time (like 4 AM)? Options that occur to me are: I use UUCP and wanted to do the same sort of re

Re: AVI viewer

1998-03-06 Thread tko
iquest writes: > > Hi, > > Is there a .avi viewer on Linux/X11 ? xanim works very well! You will find it in the "non-free" section on a debian ftp site like ftp.debian.org -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct

Re: Zero Length Files on the CD...

1998-03-04 Thread tko
P. D. Tisdale writes: > > I have another problem.. I have downloaded and tested all of the chunks > that make up the Debian Binary CD. Also have put them together as > stated in the instructions (yes I connected them in order). Lastly, I > burned the CD. However, I'm not sure if this problem i

Re: I need help

1998-03-03 Thread tko
Ivan & Ines Rojas writes: > > Hi there, > I just finish installing and setting my linux box, which wasn't a easy job > for a windows user :-) and then I decided to use PPP. > I install the module accordingly with the PPP-HOWTO but I'm missing the > ppp-on and ppp-off files. > > I have no idea if

Re: Sorry This is probably a stupid question.

1998-02-24 Thread tko
Graham Lillico +44 1785 248131 writes: > > Hi all, > > Sorry to ask this but what is hamm, No stupid questions, just information requests 8-) Anyhow, to answer your question, "hamm" is a project name for the _next_ stable release of Debian. The current stable release is "bo". Debian provides

Re: xdm?

1998-02-19 Thread tko
Christopher Jason Morrone writes: > > > I'd like to use xdm on my box. I've tried editing /etx/X11/config to > change > > no-start-xdm > no-xdm-start-server > > into > > start-xdm > xdm-start-server > > abd then I rebooted. It said "starting xdm" but there's no X login > screen. Whats up?

Hard drive block

1998-02-13 Thread tko
How does one tell the IDE driver to use block read/writes whenever possible? I ran into a situation where I was playing a wave file in the background and I had to check a directory on that same drive. As soon as I invoked "dir", the sound went down the tubes and I noticed the excessive access of th

Re: E-mail server setup

1998-02-06 Thread tko
eugene mendoza writes: > > I'm trying to setup a email server on linux box which > has sendmail ver 8.6.12. > I've a subdomain of my own. > What is the simplest way of doing this? > The email will be stored on the linux server > which will also be a name server and provide other > services. > Much

dual mode?

1998-02-06 Thread tko
I've been eyeing some multi-processor motherboards. After checking several web sites, I've come across a factiod that only Intel supports "dual mode". So, what is "dual mode"? And does one need "dual mode" to run Debian under SMP kernel option? Or can one use non-Intel processors? -- -= Sent by D

majordomo package

1998-02-06 Thread tko
When I upgraded the majordomo package to the current release, it broke the existing majordomo setup. I've straightened it out, but what a hassle! -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ...

Re: ImageMagick Guru

1998-02-05 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > The problem is as follows: > the input file is a tiff image who has 1 bit/sample and after an=20 >mogrify -geometry x%=20 > i get an image with 8 bit/sample. > > I've search the man page without success. > Please Help. It's very critical. Tryman convert

Re: permissions on uucico

1998-01-29 Thread tko
Catalin Popescu writes: > > I have the following permissions for uucico: > > -rwsr-sr-x 1 uucp dialout212932 May 8 1997 uucico > > > I try to change permissions to allow ordinary users to invoke uucico > (directly or via a script), but don't know what I'm doing wrong. [snip] Pleas

Re: Can't install Debian Linux on a 586 with 166mmx tech!

1998-01-28 Thread tko
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > When i get to the place where it says to install base files i choose to > install from a floppy. It asks for disk#1 and when i do it comes up > with the message of it dosen't look like disk#1 and i tryed it again and > it still comes up with the same message! Could

Re: PGP Which?

1998-01-28 Thread tko
Ben Pfaff writes: > >pinepgp depends on pgp and i went to ftp.de.debian.org and i found pgp_i >and pgp_us. Which one shoud i pick? in any case i think that dpkg will >complain. > > If you are inside the U.S. you must use pgp-us. Otherwise, use pgp-i. Just curious, but why "must" a U

Re: Xresources

1998-01-27 Thread tko
Remco Blaakmeer writes: > > On Sun, 25 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is there a list of all the variables used in the .Xresources file? > > No, that list would be far too large. Many programs have a file in How large is "too large"? 8-) > /usr/lib/X11/app-defaults/ that contains so

Xresources

1998-01-26 Thread tko
Is there a list of all the variables used in the .Xresources file? -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: X and the All-In-Wonder (ATI)

1998-01-24 Thread tko
Robert LaGrasse writes: > > Hi all, > > Just a quick note to let everyone know that the X-Server for the Mach64 > family of video cards found on "www.suse.de" will work with the ATI > All-in-Wonder 4MB card, and lists this card specifically (along with > every other Mach64 card you can think of).

Re: Lilo: How to install it? ( Part II )

1998-01-23 Thread tko
Ivan Rojas writes: > > Well, tanks to all that helped me last week with the lilo problem, but > I'm stil in trouble with it. > > I got Lilo to boot, I mean when the computer starts lilo appears asking > for what OS to launch. If I select Linux it goes ok, but if I select > Win95 ( default ) it wi

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