aspell german umlauts

After upgrading to the latest stable release of debian, apsell no longer shows umlauts in upper window. It replaces them with blanks. But it shows umlauts in the lower window with the suggestions. I would like to see german umlauts in the upper window as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

aspell no umlauts

After upgrading to the latest stable distribution of debian, aspell no longer shows german umlauts in the upper window. It uses blanks instead. But it shows umlauts in the lower window with the suggestions. I would like to have umlauts in the upper window as well. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: arkeia

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 09:17:50AM +0100, Liam Ward wrote: Hi Liam! > On 21 May 2002 at 10:07, Thomas Wegner wrote: > > > Are there any special setups needed to get nservd startet at > > boottime? I have copied nservd to /etc/init.d and did some symlinks to > > /etc

Re: arkeia

On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 08:31:17AM +0100, Liam Ward wrote: Hi Liam! > I do. Are there any special setups needed to get nservd startet at boottime? I have copied nservd to /etc/init.d and did some symlinks to /etc/rc*.d. But I have still problems while do a test with null drive. I can login as roo

arkeia

Hi! Does anybody from this list uses arkeia for backups with debian? Thomas -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

extract audio from mpeg

Hi! I want to extract an audio file from mpeg file. How can I manage that? I'm using debian woody and mplayer 0.92. "mplayer -dumpaudio file.mpg" won't work. :-(( Any hints? Thanks Thomas -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Xfree86-4.1 no compose key possible

Hi, I'm running kernel 2.4.18pre1 with testing. I cannot compose characters with Multi_key in Xfree86 4.1. I have got a Multi_key according to xev KeyPress event, serial 23, synthetic NO, window 0xe1, root 0x58, subw 0x0, time 1386270115, (103,176), root:(245,318), state 0x0, keycode

changing mouse buttons

Hi there! I'm running woody and xfree4.1. I'm using a graphic table from wacom (Wacom Graphire seriell) and all is fine. But my middle and right mouse buttons are changed. This is a known bug and the mouse buttons must be changed in gnome (or xfree). Can anybody tell how to do this? Thanks Thoma

Re: Best player for Divx, AFS, AVI etc.

aviplay It is in testing.

problems fetchmail protocol error

Hi! I'm using fetchmail 5.9.6 with woody. Since 3 days I have problems to get mails from my isp using pop3. A protocol error returns after starting fetchmail. My isp says that he had nothing changed. I don't know exactly if i have updated fetchmail in the last 3 days. Any hints? Thanks Thomas

OT(Merry Christmas)

Hello! Merry Christmas for everybody on this list. I whish you a calm christmas and a healthy new year. And thank you for your greate community. Thomas -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Solved: Problems compiling kernel 2.4.16 under woody

Patching kernel 2.4.16 to 2.4.17-rc1 did not do it. I have had to downgrade binutils to version 2.9.5.0.37-1. Thank you. On Sat, Dec 15, 2001 at 10:41:17AM +0100, Armin Wegner wrote: > Hi! > > I have installed one of the first potato releases from cd on a > blank hard disk and com

Problems compiling kernel 2.4.16 under woody

Hi! I have installed one of the first potato releases from cd on a blank hard disk and compiled kernel 2.4.16. Fine. I then upgraded with apt-get to yesterdays woody/testing and no longer manage to compile the same sources. I have made make mrproper make menuconfig make d

offtopic: How to seperate only sound from a mpeg file

Hi! Is it possible to seperate sound from a mpeg-file and save the result into a soundfile? ThanksThomas -- E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

apt-listchanges not running

s::/usr/bin/apt-listchanges::Version "2"; Is there anything else I need to look at? Regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ PGP: 1024D/FFE3035D A0ED DAC4 77EC D674 5487 5B5C 4F89 9A4E FFE3 035D

How to use addressbook in balsa?

A simple question I think. I can't managed til today to use the addressbook from balsa. I'm using debian2r2 with balsa 1.0.pre5. When pressing the "B"-button the addressbook appeares and I have no chance to type in a new address. I don't know what to do. The option by using gnome-card is also unsuc

Exim Rewriting rules problems

Hi! Could anybody help me with configering exim correctly? I have installed exim on a machine with a dialup connection to my isp. This machine, named meister.kosmos, should relay emails from other machines on my local network (*.komsos) and should send them per smtp when connecting to my isp. I ha

Exim und Rewriting Rules

Hi! Eine Frage zu Exim. Wie muss ich die Rewrting Rules gestalten, um Mails, die in meiner lokalen Domain (*.kosmos) kursieren so zu belassen und Mails die nach draußen gehen über das Ergebnis eines lookups in der Absender- und Replyadresse umzuschreiben? Zur Zeit werden über meine Rewriting Rule

RE: usb scanner setup?

Hi! On 24-May-2001 mikepolniak wrote: > Has anyone had success setting up a usb scanner (e.g. Epson636u) with > SANE > in Debian ? If yes , are you satisfied with the results? I'm running an EpsonPerfection1200 USB with debian2.2 (woody) and gimp 1.2. It works great. Only when scanning higher reso

RE: problem using Wacom tablet with XFree 4.0.3

Hi Bas! On 19-May-2001 Bas van der Peet wrote: > Hi. > I'm having problems getting my Wacom Intuos USB graphical tablet to > work > with XFree 4.0.3. > I have uses the howto as my guide and I got it to work with gpm but > when > running X I get a lot of these errors in the logfile: I don't kno

Re: Gimp and gif (Solved)

Hello! On 07-May-2001 V.Suresh wrote: > You will have to 'index' the file before being able to save it under > .gif > format. Find the 'indexed' menu under 'image' menu. Thanks. With indexing the image it works. Ciao...Thomas --- Diese Mail wurde mit XFMail un

Gimp and gif

Hi! I' ve installed gimp1.2 and gimp1.2-nonfree with gif support. Now I'm a little bit confused because it is not possible to save any file as a gif-file. I can open a gif-file and save it as gif but there's no other way. Is this correct? Gif-plugin is installed. Thanks...Thomas -

Re: sendmail and setgroups()

On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 03:42:55PM -0400, Richard A Nelson wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001, Shane Wegner wrote: > > The current SendMail in unstable appears to be doing a > > setgroups() call when it does not have superuser > > privileges. I am getting the following on a regu

sendmail and setgroups()

setgroups,logging disabled for 10 seconds It only loggs this when setgroups() is called and the user is not root. Do you have any idea what this could be? Regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ PGP: 1024D/FFE3035D A0ED DAC4 77EC

RE: Gnome taskbar

Hi Michele! On 17-Apr-2001 Duser wrote: > New questino from The Newbye: > how do I start up the gnome taskbar (you know, the one with applets > and a menu and the desktops map...) after I have initialized X? > Well to tell the truth i need some background on how Gnome works, > where can I start? T

RE: Err: Cannot open display

Hi Marcel! On 11-Apr-2001 MaRCeL FiGUeRoLa EsTRaDa wrote: > Hi there! > > I'm new to debian and I've just installed Debian Linux 2.2 r2 > "Potato". > During installation Anxious couldn't find a suitable grafic card and > so it's > not yet configured properly. When I try to go to the X-Windows the

Re: No chance to get my IntellyMouse working under X

Hi Andrea! On 09-Apr-2001 Andrea Vettorello wrote: > Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > >> Hi all I need some help. I tried now everithing to get my >> IntelliMouse >> Morking under X 4.0.2. Not succsesfull until today.I have gpm >> disabled >> to do not confuse X. I tried every protocol X serves on the

RE: Setting up a usb scanner

Hi! On 09-Apr-2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Under debian potato 2.2r2 I've installed the Gimp and sane together > with > xscanimage and the sane plugins for gimp. > Now I'm trying to set my epson 1240U usb scanner. I've followed the > instruction given in linux-usb.org. step by step > 1) I've

Trouble with wacom and xfree86-4

Hi! I wanted to install my new wacom graphire digitizer on xfree86 4.0.2 and potato. I did all that was described in Howto but at least X crashes with signal 11. Can anyone give me some advice? I added my XF86Config-4 and the error log XFree86.2.log. The tablet seems to be recognized by system. T

cdrecord can't burn

Hi, to say it short kernel support for graphics card + Xfree86 4.0.2 = cdrecord does not burn anymore I can write cds if I stop X and write cds at the console or if use the kernel driver for nvidia chips "nv" comming with X. Using the driver from nvidia or compiling support for graph

Re: where is libnewt0 ?

Hi Colin! On 04-Apr-2001 Colin Watson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>I wanted to upgrade from potato to woody. So I led apt-get downlaod >>the >>required packages but the download stopped at the last 2 packages >>(libnewt0_0.50.8-2 and libnewt_dev_0.50.8-2) because of missing these >>files in

where is libnewt0 ?

Hi! I wanted to upgrade from potato to woody. So I led apt-get downlaod the required packages but the download stopped at the last 2 packages (libnewt0_0.50.8-2 and libnewt_dev_0.50.8-2) because of missing these files in the woody tree. I tried to find these packages in the internet und installing

RE: ISDN setup

Hi Matt! On 02-Apr-2001 Matt Thompson wrote: > Greetings, list! :) > > We are a casualty of the Northpoint closure, but fortunately have our > ISDN > line still in operation. I'm considering purchasing the Eicon DIVA > Pro > PCI ISDN adapter to install in the Potato server here. > > Can anyone

RE: grip cddb config

Hello James! On 14-Mar-2001 Lewis, James M. wrote: > Does anyone have a grip configuration for cddb that works? > xmcd works but I can't seem to figure out exactly what I > have to put into grip to make that one work. My grip-configuration looks like the following lines: DB-Server:freedb.freedb.o

MySQLGUI-DEBs

HI! Can anybody tell me where I can download a MySQLGUI debfile? I've had a lot of trouble while compiling an installing the sources. I'm using Debian2.2r2 and Kernel 2.4.1. ThanksThomas --- Diese Mail wurde mit XFMail unter Debian 2.2 erstellt

Kernel 2.4, NFS, and 32 bit UIDs

4294967294 which on Debian is not mapped to a user id on a Debian system. Should the nobody user and nogroup group be set to id 4294967294? If so, what will that do on kernel 2.2? Cheers, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ PGP: 1024D/FFE3035D

Sawfishprobs

Hi! I've updatet my Potota to Debian2.2r2 and Ximian 1.0. After booting gdm starts showing the loginscreen. Usually sawfish is starting. Now it doesn 't work. The Screen changes and after about two senconds the loginscreen appears again. Blackbox works fine but not sawfish. Can anybody help me?

USB-Scanner-Probs

Hi! I've got problems installing my Epson Perfection 1200 Photo USB under Debian 2.2 and Kernel 2.4. I followed the instructions offered in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/usb. I have made a devie called /dev/usbscanner and activated the usb support. After loading manually uhci and scanner module not

Navigating the new ftp.debian.org

* and I had everything I needed. With pools, I can look at debian/pool/main/p/php4 but multiple versions for multiple distributions can exist for the same package. I was surprised Debian isn't providing symlinks into the pool from dists/woody. Cheers, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROT

Re: Debian & Apt-get

Hi Chris! Am Don, 14 Dez 2000 schrieb Chris: > Does any one know how I can get a listing of the commands and their > function? I think man apt-get or apt-get --help will give you some answers. Perhaps may may take a look at /usr/doc/... Bye...Thomas -- Bitte E-Mail an: Thomas

Re: tar help

les which don't exist -- there isn't a > file "path/of/the/files/*" -- with a literal '*' (tar doesn't do > wildcard expansion on its own archive). Thank you for yout tip. I'm surprised about the solution is a little bit complicated. :-(( Ciao.Thomas -- Bitte E-Mail an: Thomas Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

tar help

2) forward the band to the second archive (mt -f /dev/nst0 fsf) 3) tar -xvf /dev/nst0 path/of/the/files/* Tape-led and hdd-led are flickering but I can't find any restored files on my harddisk. Does anybody knows the correct commands? Thank's ...Thomas -- Bitte E-Mail an: T

Re: help: how install sendmail 8.11 with old libc6

b2')' - `APPENDDEF(`conf_praliases_LIBS', `-ldb2')' - `APPENDDEF(`conf_sendmail_LIBS', `-ldb2')' - `APPENDDEF(`conf_vacation_LIBS', `-ldb2')' + `APPENDDEF(`conf_makemap_LIBS', `-ldb')' + `APPENDDEF(`conf_pralias

Re: Setting up a Soundblaster card

Look at the startmessages for soundmodule. You can type "lsmod" at the commandline to proof the loaded modules. A list should appeare with sound or soundcore. When not type "insmod sound" at the commandline and the look what happens. I hope will get a correct message. Good luck..Tommi -- Bitte E-Mail an: Thomas Wegner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Mouse stopped working in X

On Thu, Aug 10, 2000 at 11:29:41PM -0500, John Reinke wrote: > I've converted my Corel distribution to Debian potato. Although I had a few > problems, most things seem to be fine, except my mouse now longer works in > X. It doesn't work with any of the X servers, including within XF86Setup. > It us

Re: can't compile cdfs

I've downgraded from gcc_2.95.2-13.deb to gcc_2.95.2-5.deb. It's all fine again. There must be a change or an error.

Re: can't compile cdfs

#ifdef wasn't satisfied, and code is > now missing at the compilation stage. What macro definitions can you play > with in the Makefile? > > Mike > > On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Armin Wegner wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I've installed yesterdays frozen

can't compile cdfs

Hello, I've installed yesterdays frozen and recompiled the kernel 2.2.17. It's up and running. Fine. But I failed to compile the non standard kernel module cdfs.o. I've linked /usr/include/{linux,asm} to /usr/src/linux/include/{linux,asm-i386}. I get following output from make. I get the same err

Re: Using verp with Debian's smartlist package

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 11:40:35PM -0300, Rogerio Brito wrote: > On Aug 07 2000, Shane Wegner wrote: > > Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? > > Must you use sendmail? Would you be willing to use qmail? If > so, then qmail supports VERPs outta the

Using verp with Debian's smartlist package

PROTECTED] format I suppose. Has anyone successfully gotten this to work? Cheers, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/

Re: Maximum characters in username

If I'm right, only the first 8 characters are relevant. The rest is ignored. There is no difference between two user names, if the first 8 characters are equal.

Building PHP 4.0.1pl2(woody) on potato

/shane/outgoing/php4/php4-4.0.1pl2/apache-build' make: *** [build-apache-stamp] Error 2 Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/

Re: Funny format CD's...

On Fri, Jun 16, 2000 at 05:35:55PM +0200, Hugo van der Merwe wrote: > Is it possible to mount the 7th track of a CD? The first 6 being audio > tracks, and the seventh the first and only data track? > I believe it is possible to write another track to a CD-R device later, as > long as the disk hasn

Excluding a directory with dump(8)

pass the inode number to dump -e, there is no noticable result. Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/

Problem with rescue disks

mpile additional utilities against it. I am looking to add restore, raidtools2, and agetty. Can this be done? Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane/ pgpUPXrKvEJxo.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: SCSI bus reset when burning

Have you added your burner to the SCSI bus, later? Then check, wether your SCSI bus is terminated correctly. The device at the end of the cable must be terminated, only. For some burners you have to set the jumper to disable termination. That is revers to normal harddrive setting.

Re: Simple Text Editor with Synatx highlighting?

Use vim. It's hard to learn, but it is worse it. It's fast.

Re: Why is the Debian home page so boring?

It's not boring, it's functional. And that's what matters.

Re: PCI 128...

Hi David, you do not need OSS. Use 1370, only

Re: Sound problems (PCI128)

On Mon, May 08, 2000 at 10:03:10PM +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > That sound thing in Linux seems to be a real mess... :( > > I downloaded kernel 2.2.14 to get support for PCI128. I don't know if it is > 1370 or 1371, but I took a chance on 1370. Ányway, the wave is working but > the midi isn

AdLib ASB 64 4D IDE doesn't work

Hi, I can't get my soundcard to work. I've got an i386 with 40 Mhz and 8 MB ram running potato. The SCSI harddisk, the SCSI cdrom and the floppy drives are connected to the Adaptec 1542 CF (dma = 5, irq = 11, io = 0x330-0x333). There is no other controller (so there are no seriel ports and no para

Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?

Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. That's fine.

SOLVED: mouse with gpm and X

I have set repeat_type= in /etc/gpm.conf. The equal sign is the last character of that line. I now have a working mouse on the console and in X. Thank you. Armin

SOLVED: eth0: unknown interface

It is fine now. My /etc/init.d/network looks like this #! /bin/sh ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0 netmask 255.255.255.0 lo I added the netmask to avoid the SIOCADDRT: invalid argument message at boot time. This has been a last years subject. Thank you. Armin

mouse with gpm and X

Hi, I've to kill gpm with gpm -k before starting X or I can not use my ps2 mouse in X. That's new in potato. Switching back to a console I don't have gpm then. I'm not pleased with this. I would like have gpm and a mouse under X. In slink this was no problem. What can I do? Armin

eth0: unknown interface

Hi, At boot potato gives me this message eth0: unknown interface: No such device I guess that eth0 is an interface for ethernet cards. I don't have one. So I don't need this message. What can I do against it? Is there a package which I can delete? Armin

db2 installation

2setup and db2_install so that they use alien to convert the rpm files to deb and then install them that way. If anyone has any experience with this, your suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane

Re: quick latex question

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Re: Can't type in X

On Mon, Dec 06, 1999 at 09:13:19AM -0700, Raphael Clancy wrote: > Here's my sad story. > > To start, I have the worst video card ever... It's based on SiS 530 chipset. > It's built on to the mother board oad uses 8 megs of system memory for > graphics, of course it uses the first 8 megs, so

Re: Newbie question floppy format

On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 06:47:16PM +, julie wright wrote: > Hi all. Very basic question - how do I format a floppy using Debian Slink? > Tried fdformat -n /dev/fd0H1440 which I found in a basic linux book. Did not > work. Returned error - command not found. > Thanks for any help in advance. >

Installation question

chroot apt-get install to install the various packages. Is there anything else I need to do? Is ln /proc /mnt/proc safe as some setup programs might need it in the chrooted environment? Regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Fax: (604) 93

Help with screen

. Is there any way to turn off this translation? To force screen to use whatever terminal I am in? Thanks in advance, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Fax: (604) 930-0529 PGP: keyid: 2048/1C0FFA59 ICQ UIN: 1

Reading defektive cdroms

Hi, is there a utility to read even defektive cdrom images? Armin

Rvplayer

r 5.0 deb. It appears someone already filed a bug relating to the segfault but I imagine there's nothing the maintainer can do about it. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, Shane -- Shane Wegner: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Personal website: http://www.cm.nu/~shane Fax:

Re: TrueType fonts, xfstt and freefont

> [...] i've seen some > suggestions to use fonts off the m$ site. after a while i tried it but > all i see are .exe files. can somebody explain the business with > freefont and also point me to the source of .ttf? please, cc me as i'm > temporary unsubscribed. tia, > Windows stores the truetype

lilo boot from scsi

Hi, I've got the Gigabyte GA-6BXE motherboard with Award BIOS v4.51PG, two IBM DTTA IDE hard disks, the Symbios 53c875E SCSI-to-PCI hostadapter, one IBM DORS-32160 and two IBM DCAS-34330 SCSI hard disks. I've installed linux on the two IDE disks and Windows 98 on the DORS. the DORS is my first SC

printer accounting

Hello, can you suggest me a software for printer accounting, please? Armin

Re: C2 Certification

from http://www.radium.ncsc.mil/tpep/library/rainbow/5200.28-STD.html "The Trusted Computing Base (TCB) of a class (C1) system nominally satisfies the discretionary security requirements by providing separation of users and data. It incorporates some form of credible controls capable of enforcing

Re: sloooooow apache

Well, I don't know apache, but you might want to see about placing these restrictions in tcp wrappers rather than in apache - if you have tcp wrappers installed, read the man for hosts.deny and set up an http deny for all but those 30 clients. You're only moving the overhead around rather than eli

Re: Basic networking

> I gather I need a HUB or a switch for anything more than two hosts? > connected to. Is there any advantage to a switch in a small home > network? Money, at this level, really isn't the issue, but I don't > want to spend extra money on a switch if it's overkill for a small > network and doesn

Re: Securing system

> > The standard things people will tell you to do are: > > - turn everything off > > What is "everything"? I've downloaded the lasg and have been reading > through it...but so far I have only disable things in > /etc/inetd.conf. Are there other locations that I need to be concerned with? Yo

Re: ide-scsi support

> SCSI support > SCSI disk support > SCSI CD-ROM support > SCSI generic support Don't compile them as modules. Compile them into the kernel. I've never managed even to compile these modules. I got errors. Armin

soundcard too silent

Hi, how can I raise the base volume of my sb 64 pci (ensonique)? Armin

Re: PS/2 mouse rolling away

> But I had never heard of mice dying like that, nor had I lost one in the > last 5 or so years. What causes it? Hi Jonathan, my mouse is new. It's two weeks old. Armin

PS/2 mouse rolling away

Hi, my logitech ps/2 mouse behaves oddly. Sometimes, the pointer rolls to the top or bottom of the screen when pressing a button while moving left or right in X and on console. I can stop this by moving the mouse. But I can't play quake with this mouse. Armin

[solved] [off topic] installing linux form source

Hi, thanks for all your replies. I've installed the debian packages for Xfree86 3.3.3.1 from netgod.net/x on slink. X is fine now and I'm happy again. Thank you Armin

antialiasing for xterm fonts

Hi, is there a variant of xterm witch uses font antialiasing like xdvi? Armin

[off topic] installing linux from scratch

Hi, can anybody tell where to find information on how to install linux from c source code. Currently I'm using Debian. Debian is fine. But there is no support for my Riva TNT chipset in X 3.3.2.3. So I've installed version 3.3.3.1 from source to /usr/local. Now there are many very anoying proble

Re: [DEBIAN] version of tar that does bzip2

On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:19:58AM -0500, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: >is there a version of tar somewhere that will recognize bzip2 >compression? I don't like untarring in two passes :-) Use 'tar xIf aaa.tar.bz2' in slink. The 'I' is for bzip2.

Re: EBCDIC --> ASCII|ANSI ???

On Fri, Jun 04, 1999 at 10:28:40AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: > Looking for something like "beav" that is more stream based. Ideas? It > needs to unpack packed fields and correctly translate binary fields too. To translate EBCDIC to ASCII or ANSI use 'recode'.

LaTeX: multicol.sty

Hi, which debian package provides the latex multicol environment? Has it been replaced by another one? Armin

Dawicontrol DC2975U

Hi, which kernel driver has to be used for the Dawicontrol DC2975U SCSI-PCI adapter? Armin

Re: getting out of fvwm

On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:28:11PM +0800, Barry Kauler wrote: > I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux! > I got X windows running, with default window > manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it > didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight > into graphics mode and gave me a login windo

Re: Boot probblem with xdm

On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 08:53:12AM -0500, Nadarajah, Dinesh wrote: > How can I turn xdm off so that I can directly boot into a console and and > then run startx to get to X? Hi, in slink, you have to uninstall xdm. In hamm, you have to add the line "no-start-xdm" to /etc/X11/xconfig. I don't use

Re: Boot probblem with xdm

On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:23:34AM -0500, shadowze wrote: > My install was going just fine until until I installed X on and ran the > XF86 setup. Was curious about it. I can hand edit the xf86.cfg if needed > or run the xf86config. During the setup, my bus mouse wasnt recognized so I > quit the se

Diamond Viper 550

Hi, I will get a Diamond Viper 550 graphics card, soon. Which is the best Xserver for it? Which X version do you recommend? Armin

Re: latex and memory related

On Fri, May 21, 1999 at 12:25:52PM +, Shao Zhang wrote: > Hi, > I drew a simple box in xfig and used it to generated a latex file. > > The file looks like this: > > \documentclass{article} > \begin{document} > > \setlength{\unitlength}{4144sp}% > % >

useable hardware

Hi, I'd like to get a new computer. I haven't found some components at the Hardware Compatiblity Howto. Can you tell me wether the listed hardware is supported? Can you even tell me if it is succested to use? - ELSA Erazer II, 16 mb, Riva TNT chipset Is 16 mb enough for a resolution of 16

net-pf-19

Hi, I'm running potato with kernel 2.2.5. At boot it prints modeprobe: can't find module net-pf-19 two times. What's missing? Armin

HTML formatter

Hi, is there a program that formats html source code. I would like to have a pretty printer for HTML just like 'indent' does with c source code. Armin

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