Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Jon Nelson
Can anybody recommend a sound card based upon the following criteria: * Compatability with Linux * SBPro compatability * Sound Quality * Price Thanks! There seems to be a shortage of sound card reviews... -- Jon Nelson U of MN Housing and Res. Life Computing Supervisor [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-12 Thread Marcus . Brinkmann
On 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Marcus writes: Yes, this is true. Lredir does only work with real dos, either from IBM or Microsoft. Does it not work with OpenDOS? Well, you tell me ;) What is OpenDOS? Maybe it works, but it certainly works not with FDOS. bye, Marcus -- TO

Re: where is killall? (hamm)

1998-01-12 Thread bhmit1
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Scott K. Ellis wrote: Moved from procps to psutils by the upstream source. psutils is stuck in incoming. I thought that was psmisc (retrieved from incomming last night): [EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):bhmit1$ dpkg -c deb/psmisc_16-1_i386.deb ... -rwxr-xr-x root/root 8956

Re: Install without floppies

1998-01-12 Thread Sten Anderson
Brian Schramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an older 486 machine that the floppy side is dead in. I have a sound blaster cd and sound card in it. That will not boot a cd and the only OS I have on it is Slackware. I would like to put Debian on it so I have the same system on all my

Re: socks 5 debian module?

1998-01-12 Thread Sten Anderson
William R Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know why there isn't a socks5 debian module in hamm? I compiled it myself and have it in /usr/local but would rather have it installed properly... Are you talking about the version from NEC? That implementation does not operate well with a

'wmask' compiling error?

1998-01-12 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
I'm trying to compile amp, and I get this error: rtbuf.c: In function `block_fancy_audio': rtbuf.c:434: storage size of `wmask' isn't known make: *** [rtbuf.o] Error 1 Could it be that I'm missing a necessary dev package? Anyone know which package? (I'm running an entirely hamm system.) --

Re: Debian and Windoze 95

1998-01-12 Thread Sten Anderson
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 10:08:09PM +0200, Catalin Popescu wrote: A friend of mine has a hard-disk of 1.2Gb with 2 partions: /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2. On /dev/hda1 he has Win'95. Is there any problems with booting if I help him to insatll Debian

Re: browser with strong encryption?

1998-01-12 Thread Eric Prestemon
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Hi, Does anyone know of a browser with 128-bit encryption. I need access to a site that requires 128-bit encryption (it detects 40 or 56-bit encryption and disables features on the site) and I'd hate to have to use win95. Does netscape plan to make

off-topic: Good bug-tracking package?

1998-01-12 Thread Obi
Hi all, does anyone know of a good bug-tracking software? thanks, graziano -- Nessuna cosa è che più c'inganni che 'l nostro giudizio. Leonardo da Vinci -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

configuring ftpd for anonymous access

1998-01-12 Thread bn711
Hi... I'm trying to set up anonymous ftp access (for no particular reason, truth be told - I just want to know how to do it) on one of my Debian boxes and I can't quite get it to work. I followed exactly the instructions in the ftpd man page, down to the file permissions, etc. What I get is - I

Re: configuring ftpd for anonymous access

1998-01-12 Thread Ben Gertzfield
bn711 == bn711 [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: bn711 Hi... I'm trying to set up anonymous ftp access (for no bn711 particular reason, truth be told - I just want to know how bn711 to do it) on one of my Debian boxes and I can't quite get bn711 it to work. I followed exactly the

which pgp package for international?

1998-01-12 Thread Jimmy Lu
Hi All, I want to install the pgp debian package for international user but I don't know which one(s) listed below I should use. pgp-i_2.6.3-1_i386.deb pgp-i_2.6.3a-1.deb pgp-i_2.6.3-2.deb pgp-i_2.6.3-3.deb Please advice. Thanks. Jimmy Lu -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian and Windoze 95

1998-01-12 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote: A friend of mine has a hard-disk of 1.2Gb with 2 partions: /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2. On /dev/hda1 he has Win'95. Is there any problems with booting if I help him to insatll Debian 1.3.1 on /dev/hda2 and try to boot it with loadlin. Should be fine.

Re: configuring ftpd for anonymous access

1998-01-12 Thread bhmit1
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I get is - I can ftp to the box from itself or over the network and log in as anonymous. Then I can put files to the directory and they get transferred all right, and I can get files if I know their names... but, of course, as you may have

Re: where is killall? (hamm)

1998-01-12 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Scott K. Ellis wrote: Moved from procps to psutils by the upstream source. psutils is stuck in incoming. I thought that was psmisc (retrieved from incomming last night): [EMAIL PROTECTED](p2):bhmit1$ dpkg -c

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 06:29:14PM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: Can anybody recommend a sound card based upon the following criteria: * Compatability with Linux * SBPro compatability * Sound Quality * Price Try to get a SB 32, but stay away from SB 64! Reason: The SB32 does work fine with

init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Sen Nagata
hello- i've been wondering what the advantages and disadvantages are w.r.t. organizing the run-level changing/initialization scripts in the current manner. right now there are a number of scripts stored in init.d which are referenced by symbolic links from each of the rc*.d directories,

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
The SB64 will work , too, but only as a SB32 (because the additional 32 are windoze driver only). Yes, but Creative Labs does give some reasons (other than the extra 32 software voices) why you would want a SB64 over an SB32, on their web page. The $10 or so difference in price (at least

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Alex Yukhimets
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 06:29:14PM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: Can anybody recommend a sound card based upon the following criteria: * Compatability with Linux * SBPro compatability * Sound Quality * Price Try to get a SB 32, but stay away from SB 64! Reason: The SB32 does work

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Joey Hess
Sen Nagata wrote: what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all runlevels) describing which scripts to run (as well as the order to run them in)? There's not much difference, really, though the current

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 11:32:51PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: The SB64 will work , too, but only as a SB32 (because the additional 32 are windoze driver only). Yes, but Creative Labs does give some reasons (other than the extra 32 software voices) why you would want a SB64 over an SB32,

Re: Dosemu lredir problem

1998-01-12 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 9 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote: So does this mean, that I HAVE to get microslop dos, or something similar to lredir drives? Would be slightly sad, since dosemu is a bit useless to me w/o the lredir functionality... You can also try Opendos from Caldera. It is free. In some aspects

How to set domain ?

1998-01-12 Thread David Irwin
I installed Debian a couple of months ago when I was using a PPP connection to the net. I just made up a hostname with no domain during the install and left it at that. Now I will have a permanent net connection with a static IP. I am using the name service of ml.org to make my system

Re: Good Soundcard?

1998-01-12 Thread ninjaz
Can anybody recommend a sound card based upon the following criteria: * Compatability with Linux * SBPro compatability * Sound Quality * Price Thanks! There seems to be a shortage of sound card reviews... -- Jon Nelson U of MN Housing and Res. Life Computing Supervisor I've been extremely

Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-12 Thread Dan Hugo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 0setserial confused me to. But after all I've figuered out, that linux (on my machine) does NOT support 2 serials on the same interupt. What happens is, that they both are not useable. I have set the jumpers on my ... hmmm ... let me look ... AdLib ISA POWER 221 card

Re: Changing video modes on fly?

1998-01-12 Thread Adam Klein
On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 11:56:19AM +1300, Tim Thomson wrote: Hi, Is there a way to change the text video mode (say, from 80x25 to 80x50), on the fly? I prefer 80x25 for most things but it would be handy to change the resolution for somethings - without rebooting! The resizecons program in

unable to insmod irqtune_mod

1998-01-12 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I have just compiled and installed kernel 2.0.33 on my debian 1.3.1/hamm hybrid system. I have recompiled irqtune 0.6 for my kernel. but when I type insmod ./irqtune_mod.o I get the following error: ./irqtune_mod.o: kernel-module version mismatch ./irqtune_mod.o was compiled for

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Britton
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 06:29:14PM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: Can anybody recommend a sound card based upon the following criteria: * Compatability with Linux * SBPro compatability * Sound Quality * Price Try to get a SB 32, but stay away from SB 64! Reason: The SB32 does

Re: Graphics Board URGENT

1998-01-12 Thread Nico De Ranter
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably pretty stable by now. Most any board should work in generic svga mode, ^^^ Not true. The new Diamond Stealth

Re: configuring ftpd for anonymous access

1998-01-12 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I get is - I can ftp to the box from itself or over the network and log in as anonymous. Then I can put files to the directory and they get transferred all right, and I can get files if I know

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 11:39:39PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: What is in contradiction with your HOWTO is they explicitly say that sound should NOT be compiled as a module as it will default volume and other settings each time application access audio devices. That would be true if you use

Re: Good Soundcard?

1998-01-12 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 11:35:39PM -0700, ninjaz wrote: I've been extremely pleased with my GUS Max - excellent sound quality - wavetable and up to 48,000hz (better than cd quality), and it works with Two things though; firstly, last time I heard, Gravis had gone bang, so no more new GUS cards.

Re: Changing video modes on fly?

1998-01-12 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Adam Klein wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 11:56:19AM +1300, Tim Thomson wrote: Hi, Is there a way to change the text video mode (say, from 80x25 to 80x50), on the fly? I prefer 80x25 for most things but it would be handy to change the resolution for somethings -

Re: Two Net Cards problem

1998-01-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Rob wrote: I have just tried adding a second network card to my linux machine, and am having a few problems. Can you ping both IP interfaces? -- Jean Pierre -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: PS/2 mouse setup; /dev/mouse?

1998-01-12 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Gregory Guthrie wrote: I have a Microsoft PS/2 mouse, with a seperate port, not one of my serial ports. I use the following in my /etc/X11/XF8gConfig: Section Pointer Protocol PS/2 Device/dev/psaux Emulate3Buttons EndSection -- Jean

Re: configuring ftpd for anonymous access

1998-01-12 Thread bhmit1
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: I'm having the same problem he has. ls doesn't report anything. However its only with anonymous logins. And it happens with all of the ftp server packages I've tried. ftpd, wu-ftp, and the wu-ftp-academ. (all from hamm). I've got a

Re: which pgp package for international?

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Schulze
On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 11:15:57AM +0800, Jimmy Lu wrote: I want to install the pgp debian package for international user but I don't know which one(s) listed below I should use. pgp-i_2.6.3-1_i386.deb pgp-i_2.6.3a-1.deb pgp-i_2.6.3-2.deb pgp-i_2.6.3-3.deb I only

Re: which pgp package for international?

1998-01-12 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 01:58:07PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Apart from that there should only be _one_ pgp-i package for each architecture. I suspect Jimmy is using the ftp.replay.com/pub/crypto/debian mirror, which does keep old versions, for reasons unknown to me. I'm Cc-ing this to the

RE: Good Linux books??

1998-01-12 Thread Richardson,Anthony
Check out A Practical Guide to Linux by Mark Sobell and published by Addison-Wesley. It's one of the few Unix books that is written in text book style (with exercises and end-of-chapter problems). It's also useful as a reference. The foreword is by Linus Torvalds and he mentions that one of

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Bill Vinson
I have a SB 32 PnP that I got cheap a while back, will it work with the AWE patch to the kernel? I also have isapnptools running if that makes a difference... Thanks, Bill ---Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The SB32 does work fine with the awe patch to the kernel (available as

Re: [install] hdc irq timeout problem

1998-01-12 Thread Pere Camps
Ian, Pioneer DR-A24X CDrom as Pri on 2nd hdc: irq timeout: error 0x20 hdc: irq timeout: status=0x51 Add this in /etc/lilo.conf append=hdc=cdrom hdc=noprobe Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_

RE: Good Linux books??

1998-01-12 Thread Joop Stakenborg
I realy like a book called: Beginning Linux Programming. It is sold by wrox press, have a look at www.wrox.com. Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA3ABA -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: which pgp package for international?

1998-01-12 Thread Jimmy Lu
Hi Ray, You are right. I was trying to download file from ftp.replay.com. So which file should I download to use? Do I use pgp-i_2.6.3a-1.deb as joey suggested? Please let me know. Thanks, Jimmy On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 01:58:07PM +0100, Martin Schulze wrote: Apart from that there should

Re: Using dselect and unstable packages

1998-01-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 11 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 09:15:31PM +0500, Ian Gill Watkins wrote: : Can you use dselect and the unstable packages vis FTP. If so how? : : Yes. Use an FTP site that carries unstable, and configure dpkg-ftp (through : [A]ccess) to use the

Re: which pgp package for international?

1998-01-12 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 10:22:47PM +0800, Jimmy Lu wrote: I was trying to download file from ftp.replay.com. So which file should I download to use? Do I use pgp-i_2.6.3a-1.deb as joey suggested? Please let me know. pgp-i_2.6.3a-1.deb is the one to use with stable (1.3.1); if you are

RE: Using dselect and unstable packages

1998-01-12 Thread Ian Gill Watkins
Great, thanks. Worked like a charm. Went and got the Packages files, ran DSELECT and had 55M of files to get!!! Whoops! I had to take them out again to get any sense back into DSELECT. Would you expect this to happen or did I do something wrong?? Thanks for your help. Ian W On Sun, Jan 11,

Libc5 / Libc6

1998-01-12 Thread Ian Gill Watkins
I want to upgrade one or two of the packages on my system beyond the stable distribution. The newer packages are all requiring libc6, but that conflicts (in DSELECT) with libc5 which is a dependence to a _very_ large number of programs. =:| What should I do? Forget it and wait? Ian W --

Re: Using dselect and unstable packages

1998-01-12 Thread jdassen
On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 07:56:59PM +0500, Ian Gill Watkins wrote: Great, thanks. Worked like a charm. Went and got the Packages files, ran DSELECT and had 55M of files to get!!! Whoops! I had to take them out again to get any sense back into DSELECT. Would you expect this to happen or did I

Perl 5.004 and Perl-tk

1998-01-12 Thread atheris
I have upgraded libc5 to libc6 etc., and have now also upgraded to Perl 5.004. However if I try to dpkg -i Perl-tk_400.202-9.deb it then tells me that perl-tk depends on perl (5.004) and that perl is not installed, although Perl --version shows 5.004 on the machine. Anyone come accross this? I

Re: Changing video modes on fly?

1998-01-12 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Tim Thomson wrote: : Hi, : Is there a way to change the text video mode (say, from 80x25 to 80x50), : on the fly? : I prefer 80x25 for most things but it would be handy to change the : resolution for somethings - without rebooting! SVGATextMode - been using it for a while

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Thomas E. Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my Pentium-133 machine. I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep. My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread john
Sen Nagata writes: what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all runlevels) describing which scripts to run (as well as the order to run them in)? The present system is safer and easier to automate. If

Staroffice libc5 5.4.38-0.1

1998-01-12 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi I have a Linux system with libc5 (5.4.20-1) were all the Staroffice programs are working correctly. I have another Linux system with libc5 (5.4.38-0.1) were I can not run the Staroffice setup program, whem I try... StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault (core dumped) Can

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Bill Vinson wrote: I have a SB 32 PnP that I got cheap a while back, will it work with the AWE patch to the kernel? I also have isapnptools running if that makes a difference... Thanks, Bill Yes, it will work (I have one, too). Install a recent doc package from hamm (that with the

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have a SB 32 PnP that I got cheap a while back, will it work with the AWE patch to the kernel? I also have isapnptools running if that makes a difference... Yes, it will work. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Good Soundcard?

1998-01-12 Thread Stephen Carpenter
ninjaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Two other sound cards with similar specs, and that I've heard good review from the linux crowd on are the Ensoniq AudioPCI, which is sbpro hardware compatible, and ViperMax (http://www.computex.com.tw/synergy), which is I HAVE an AudioPCI...and I have had it for

? ON AUTHORIZATION AND DIGEST

1998-01-12 Thread Noe' Franco
WE'RE USING DEBIAN GNU LINUX 1.3 ON AUTHORIZATION : WHEN DOING THE .htaccess FILE CAN DIGEST BE USED? IS IT SUPPORTED YET? I KNOWN THIS IS A ROOKIE QUESTION, WHAT IS A REALM? IT'S TALKED ABOUT BUT NEVER EXPLAINED. AND FINALLY IF YOU HAVE ANY TIPS OR PLACES TOGO ON USER/PASSWORD AUTHORIZATION IT

bad disk spot, and more troubles starting xdm

1998-01-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
grr. After two years, i finally had a real crash. By this point, I was suspicious enough to wipe the disk--there had been plenty of heat freezes before I got the coooling in. Even got a kernel panic. Anyway, about 60% of the way through formatting the / partition, the drive ground for a

Re: Libc5 / Libc6

1998-01-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Ian Gill Watkins wrote: I want to upgrade one or two of the packages on my system beyond the stable distribution. The newer packages are all requiring libc6, but that conflicts (in DSELECT) with libc5 which is a dependence to a _very_ large number of programs. =:|

Re: Install without floppies

1998-01-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
another idea, if you can borrow a disk of some type, would be a dos-bootable partiton on that disk, with loadlin, images, etc. on there. Or, if it helps, I've made a minimal (for X) install on a zip trive. I could tgz that for you to download, save that it still needs a boot floppy. But one

partitioning sizes (data:swap)?

1998-01-12 Thread Gregory Guthrie
I have a (Windows) system with a 400M disk chunk left for linux; I made it all a Linux ext2 partition, and choose no swap partition (48M RAM). Is this a good allocation of the 400M, or should I split it for some swap space, say 350/50 or whatever. Thanks.

Re: configuring ftpd for anonymous access

1998-01-12 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: [summary: ls doesn't show anything in anonymous ftp] This is definately a library problem. The listing I gave was for a libc5 ls, but I think it would be similar for libc6. Also verify

Re: Perl 5.004 and Perl-tk

1998-01-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have upgraded libc5 to libc6 etc., and have now also upgraded to Perl 5.004. However if I try to dpkg -i Perl-tk_400.202-9.deb it then tells me that perl-tk depends on perl (5.004) and that perl is not installed, although Perl --version shows

exporting xauth

1998-01-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
After the last round of questions posts on the topic, I've found that I can stably export xauthority by xauth list $DISPLAY and pasting from MIT on to xauth add $DISPLAY pastehere is there a way to pass this information automatically? particularly, it doesn't pass to su, and I'd also like

Re: which pgp package for international?

1998-01-12 Thread Alex de Joode
We mirror ftp.de.debian.org/debian-non-us/ : : : Hi Ray, : You are right. I was trying to download file from ftp.replay.com. : So which file should I download to use? Do I use pgp-i_2.6.3a-1.deb : as joey suggested? Please let me know. : Thanks, : Jimmy : : On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at

Card and Drivers for v.35

1998-01-12 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, I am looking to use several debian systems as routers for a small network that I am building. What I need is a card that will give me a V.35 interface that will allow me to plug into my RAD modems. If anyone out there is using such a card, or can recommend a card I would be

Drivers for a Supra ISDN

1998-01-12 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, I was wondering if anyone has the drivers or knows where I might find the source for the drivers regarding a Supra NetCommander ISDN card. Supra has stated that they do not support the card in anything but an win95 or NT platform. Any help would be much appreciated. Anthony

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 11:39:39PM -0500, Alex Yukhimets wrote: On Sun, Jan 11, 1998 at 06:29:14PM -0600, Jon Nelson wrote: Hi. So what is the reason to stay away from SB AWE64? Especially if one has a dual-boot system? No reason if you have a dual-boot system ;) You can however use the

{Q} Several Questions on X

1998-01-12 Thread Vladislav Papayan x285
Hello, I have debian-hamm as of Dec. 19, (everything is libc6) installed. I cannot seem to get X to work when I am not root. It tells me that only root can run the server. I thought that there might be something wrong with permissions, so I reinstalled x-server-s3v. It installed OK with one error

Gimp and library module

1998-01-12 Thread Russ Cook
Hi All, I am running Debian with kernel 2.0.30 (Bo). I have tried to install Gimp using dselect. I followed the recommendations for dependencies, and configured the package. When I try to run it, I get an error about not able to load libXm (or something to that effect, I'm not in front

Re: Perl 5.004 and Perl-tk

1998-01-12 Thread G John Lapeyre
Did you install the new perl with dpkg ? Is it in your /var/lib/dpkg/status file ? You can override the dependency check with a flag to dpkg. Good luck ... On Mon, 12 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have upgraded libc5 to libc6 etc., and have now also upgraded to Perl

Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d

1998-01-12 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding Re: init.d, rc0.d, ... rc6.d of 9:04 PM -0800 1/11/98, Joey Hess wrote: Sen Nagata wrote: what kind of advantages does this kind of approach have compared to having a single file for each run level (or even one file for all runlevels) describing

Re: partitioning sizes (data:swap)?

1998-01-12 Thread Ben Pfaff
I have a (Windows) system with a 400M disk chunk left for linux; I made it all a Linux ext2 partition, and choose no swap partition (48M RAM). Is this a good allocation of the 400M, or should I split it for some swap space, say 350/50 or whatever. This ought to work okay. If you

Re: Staroffice libc5 5.4.38-0.1

1998-01-12 Thread Scott Ellis
On 12 Jan 1998, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi I have a Linux system with libc5 (5.4.20-1) were all the Staroffice programs are working correctly. I have another Linux system with libc5 (5.4.38-0.1) were I can not run the Staroffice setup program, whem I try... StarOffice3.1

Random loss of key bindings in fvwm2

1998-01-12 Thread David Welton
Occasionaly, I seem to lose the key bindings under fvwm2, such as alt arrow to move between areas of a desktop. I really can't pinpoint this to any specific event, nor am I able to remedy the situation without completely quitting X and restarting (restart fvwm and xrefresh dont' seem to help).

Re: Wmaker (hamm) and menu pkg.

1998-01-12 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, As a sidenote, this is my first reply to debian-user in nearly 2 months now. Last wednesday I finaly finished my PhD studies, and I'm _FREE_ now. Free to continue to work on my debian packages again. Or to read debian-user: I'm having a bit of a problem with the 'automagically'

Re: Staroffice libc5 5.4.38-0.1

1998-01-12 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
I have another Linux system with libc5 (5.4.38-0.1) were I can not run the Staroffice setup program, whem I try... This probably isn't the answer you're looking for, but I solved this by using star office 4 rather than 3 . . . rick -- These opinions will not be those of ISU until it pays my

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Mark Phillips
I used dselect's FTP mode to install emacs-19.34, X, and AfterStep. My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch between windows. I much prefer `Alt-x' to `Esc-x' as a means of entering an

Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-12 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: After the last round of questions posts on the topic, I've found that I can stably export xauthority by xauth list $DISPLAY and pasting from MIT on to xauth add $DISPLAY pastehere is there a way to pass this information

Re: ? ON AUTHORIZATION AND DIGEST

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Noe' Franco [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ARE YOU DEAF OR HAVE A DAMAGED KEYBOARD? Civilised people normaly don't yell. I normaly won't answer, but a small flame will do you good :-) WE'RE USING DEBIAN GNU LINUX 1.3 ON AUTHORIZATION : WHEN DOING THE .htaccess FILE CAN DIGEST BE USED? IS IT

Re: bad disk spot, and more troubles starting xdm

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: for /etc/X11/config, and /etc/X11/XF86Config is sufficient that startx works as expected. however, no xdm is started on boot, and /etc/init.d/xdm start merely starts an idle process that does nothing. Check your

Re: Random loss of key bindings in fvwm2

1998-01-12 Thread Martin Bialasinski
David Welton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Occasionaly, I seem to lose the key bindings under fvwm2, such as alt arrow to move between areas of a desktop. I really can't pinpoint this to any specific event, nor am I able to remedy the situation without completely quitting X and restarting

Re: emacs, X, and Alt key

1998-01-12 Thread Peter S Galbraith
My problem is that *neither* `Alt' key is being interpreted as `Meta' by emacs. AfterStep's `Alt-Tab' combination works well enough to switch between windows. Run `xev' and press the Alt keys to find what keycode they generate: For example, I get: keycode 113 (keysym 0xffea, Alt_R)

laptop

1998-01-12 Thread David B. Teague
Hi folks This request is on behalf of a former student who in the Navy for a stint before returning to school to finish his CS degree. If perchance some of it should be asked someplace else, or should not be posted here, please let me know. I need advice on a make and configuration of a laptop

Hylafax and gs-Aladdin

1998-01-12 Thread atheris
Has anybody managed to set up Hylafax using hylafax_4.0.1-1.i386.deb? Hylafax says it needs gs-Aladdin, so I have installed gs-aladdin_5.03-1.deb, but Hylafax then claims it's not present. Probably I am missing a file. Or is hylafax_40.0.1 just a wrapper? TIA for any help. Adrian Monk -- TO

Low Memory Install

1998-01-12 Thread mray01
I am attempting to install debian on a 386/16 with 4mb RAM. How do I go about booting the lmemroot.bin disk? Do I need to pass a special argument using resc1440.bin? -Mike -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: Good Soundcard

1998-01-12 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: BTW: If he hadn't explicitly request a SB compatible crad, I would never have suggested one ;) I dislike the marketing politic of Creative Labs. I bought my SB AWE 32 before I started to work with Linux :-( Ok. I'm not asking explicity for a SB

Those things you swore you would never do

1998-01-12 Thread Stephen Carpenter
Well as anyone who has noticed my messages knows...im a new convert to debian and I _HAD_ a working 486sx/25 going./...untill about 5 mins ago good thing I have 2 PCs on my desk... right now only 2 things work... on tty8 I have a telnet session...which is setup in inittab (it telnets to this host

Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-12 Thread dg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Dan Hugo wrote: ttyS1 - PalmPilot (or whatever it's called now). Cool! I've got a Psion S3a on a ttySx port attached. I'm not necessarily short on interrupts yet, but I figured it would be interesting of the slower items could just

Re: new computer advice

1998-01-12 Thread Greg Norris
Thanx to everyone who responded to my inquiry for advice on purchasing a new computer. I'll do some more checking around, and definately keep everything you all said in mind. Thanx again! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble?

Re: Card and Drivers for v.35

1998-01-12 Thread Tim Sailer
Anthony Landreneau wrote: Greetings, I am looking to use several debian systems as routers for a small network that I am building. What I need is a card that will give me a V.35 interface that will allow me to plug into my RAD modems. If anyone out there is using such a card, or

Re: configuring ftpd for anonymous access

1998-01-12 Thread Lee Bradshaw
I can't tell you how to fix your problem, but ftp is probably set to prevent anonymous users from seeing files they shouldn't. The administrator has to configure the system to be more open instead of configure it to be more closed. This seems reasonable. Most companies I work with have an

Unidentified subject!

1998-01-12 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi I'm trying to install slrn with slrnpull working, but the slrnpull.conf file that the readme says I must use as an example for writing my own is no-where to be found, and slrnpull don't seem to do anything w/o this file... Thanks Neilen -- E-Mail: Neilen

Lilo ?

1998-01-12 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have Debian running fine on my first hard drive (/dev/hda) and I wish to add another disk and install Win95 on it (bummer). My DOS/Windows boot disks will not allow me to install Win on the second drive(/dev/hdc). Error message says, Remove NTFS or Disk cache...before continuing. The

Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-12 Thread Will Lowe
On Mon, 12 Jan 1998, Richard E. Hawkins Esq. wrote: is there a way to pass this information automatically? particularly, it doesn't pass to su, and I'd also like to pass it to telnet when connecting to remote machines I recommend using ssh. I use it for almost all telnetting, rshing,

Re: Wmaker (hamm) and menu pkg.

1998-01-12 Thread Adam Shand
What you do want to do is to edit the /etc/menu-methods/ file for you window manager (WindowMaker-- what's that? Is that a new window manager I didn't hear about, but does include a Menu-method? Fab!) It's a better Afterstep then Afterstep :) I swapped about two months ago and am in love...

Re: Random loss of key bindings in fvwm2

1998-01-12 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
That can happen if you happen to press NumLock key and it gets set. // Heikki -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Random loss of key bindings in fvwm2

1998-01-12 Thread David Welton
On Mon, Jan 12, 1998 at 09:19:38PM +0200, Heikki Vatiainen wrote: That can happen if you happen to press NumLock key and it gets set. Wow.. good call, I guess that was it but I'd never noticed:-) That will save me some frustration every now and then, thanks:-) -- David Welton

Re: exporting xauth

1998-01-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Oh ssh does more than this. It tunnels the X protocol through it's own connection and creates a pseudo-Xserver on the remote machine. You could use scp to copy the file over before hand. The best option is probably to set up a script which you run from the menu. Daniel Martin at cush wrote:

Re: Interrupts and serial ports

1998-01-12 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
The parallel port kernel driver doesn't use the interrupt by default, it uses polling. (It even says so in the boot messages, at least with my kernel.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 11 Jan 1998, Dan Hugo wrote: ttyS1 - PalmPilot (or whatever it's

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