Hello Debianers,
Yesterday I encountered a very strange problem:
I compiled a kernel and unfortunately specified the wrong target for
make-kpkg:
I used make-kpkg binary, which resulted in error messages because of
filling up my /usr partition completely.
I found out about the error, deleted
On Sat, Jan 13, 2001 at 11:01:40AM -0500, DSC Lithuania wrote:
From your Debian 2.2 documentation, it looks like 2.2 requires a minimum of
12 MB of Ram.
Right. But there's a work-around. Install some earlier release (e.g. slink
(2.1 as far as I remember) and upgrade using:
apt-get update
Hello Jonathan,
Can Lynx show web site gifs?
Yes it can, provided you are running it in a X-Terminal and have an
image-viewer for X installed or you have svgalib and zgv. Of course, the
images are not shown inline with the text, but lynx can be configured,
that when you follow a link to an
Hello Daniel,
On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Daniel de los Reyes wrote:
I have been recommended to use ssh as a replacement for the telnet server
however I can't find any packages for Potato. Are they not avaliable?
Yes they are, but due to some (IMHO very strange) laws in the US
concerning the export
Hello there,
Is it possible to use TeX-Fonts in X? I know, that TeXmacs uses TeX-Fonts
for its menus, so do I need a nasty hack to do this, or can I do this in a
simple way and make TeX-Fonts available to every X-App?
TIA
Regards,
Daniel
Hello Manuel,
to enable kpathsea to search very quickly for files, tetex remains a
database of all the files in your tex-installation in
/usr/share/texmf/ls-R (actually it resides somewhere in /var,
/usr/share/texmf/ls-R is just a link to it). Whenever you install new
files, you have to update
Hello Paul,
lprng runs the inputfilters by default on the host on which the job is
issued, and NOT on the server with the printer attached. That means the
host has to do the work of rendering anything, the server lprng just
forwards the job directly to the printer.
Up to now I havn't found out
Hi folks,
On Tue, 21 Nov 2000, Bek Oberin wrote:
Daniel Migowski wrote:
On Montag, 20. November 2000 16:15, Jean-Marc Cadudal wrote:
I have an old 386 on which I'd like to install Debian 2.2.
HP Vectra RS/20
10 Mb RAM
100 Mb DISK
Floppy 1,4 Mb
Floppy 1,2 Mb
Btw. forget it.
Hi folks,
Some of you perhaps read the thread about my svgalib screen sync problems
with the DSTN 640x480 screen of my laptop and ct65535 chipset.
One of the problems I could solve:
My console isn't scrumbled any more when I switch back from graphics to
textmode, I achieved this by using
Hello Debianers,
I have a problem with my ct65535 and the Sharp 640x480 LCD in my ATT
Globalyst 130 laptop. Description:
I can't get the screen to sync. When I start X I get a scrumbled screen.
It goes away, when I do a LCD/CRT/LCD switch. I already used the
UseModeLine option and fiddled with
Hello there,
After all this discussion recently on the list about opera for linux and
galeon/skipstone, I looked at the galeon/skipstone webpages. So a question
came to my mind:
They both use the gecko rendering engine from Mozilla. They both need a
full install of Mozilla on the machine to work
Hello Brian,
Check this:
sed '/%$/{
N
s/%\n//
}' yourfile.bib
It should work from command line using bash's multiline input capability
(with the '). It checks for % at the end of lines (hence the $), then
reads the next line into the buffer and then removes the %\n sequence (I
don't quite
Hello Stephan,
If you want something more lightweight than Emacs, and at the same time
something more easy to use than vim, you could check out jed. It does nice
syntax highlighting, automatic indentation and has a quite intuitive
interface (IMHO) with a ncurses-based menu.
I started
Hello LTG,
On Mon, 23 Oct 2000, LTG wrote:
I just setup the most recent ver. of potato at home. I also have two NT
machines. I want to setup my linux box as a intranet server and build a
web-based system on top of it using all free or almost free software. It
should include a database
Hello there,
Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more
information, as I still don't understand, why the warning
main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
is generated in my case:
I have the following (among some other function and structure
, but
with your help, I could solve the problem really fast, so thanks very much
to all who answered.
Regards,
Daniel
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Daniel Reuter wrote:
Hello there,
Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more
information, as I still don't understand, why
Hello all,
You were right, Brian, and Karsten, /var/tmp is NOT wiped on bootup.
Sorry, my fault, didn't remember it exactly.
Regards,
Daniel
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 10:19:08AM +0200, Daniel Reuter ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
Hello
Hello Petteri,
Strange, in my /var/lib/dpkg/info/magicfilter.list the filter-files in
/etc/magicfilter are listed, so they should have been installed by
magicfilter. Have you tried purging your broken magicfilter first?
(dpkg --purge magicfilter).
Regards,
Daniel
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Petteri
Hello there,
I never quite understood the following warning message from gcc:
sourcefile.c: linenumber: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer
without a cast
Unfortunately, I couldn't find a pointer on warning messages in the
gcc-doc.
Perhaps someone could enlighten me. Thanks.
Regards,
Hello there,
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 14, 2000 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Bud Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Sat, 14 Oct 2000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
Alternatively symlink /tmp to the existing /var/tmp
That would have been my suggestion.
Hello Zach,
Have you used rawrite or dd? The disk-files are disk-images, this means,
they should be copied bit by bit to a disk, and not by some tools which
use the file-system, which is on the disk.
By writing the raw images, they should fit absolutely exactly on one disk.
Regards,
Daniel
On
Hello Stefan,
On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote:
Hello,
Normally, a floppy disk contains 1440 1k blocks. Well, this is what they
always told me.
When I mount an msdos floppy and I do df -k, I see that the number of
blocks are 1423. I simple wonder where the other 17 are??
They
Hello there,
On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Mike Harrison wrote:
We bought the book to investigate Linux and I gave it to an engineer.
Which book?
I tried loading the Debian Linux, but the disk layout is not the same as
stated in the book (quel supris).
Anyway there was a readme file on the disk,
Hello all out there,
Have a look at:
http://www.sun.com/software/staroffice/openoffice/
Does this mean it might ship with some future release of debian?
Regards,
Daniel
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Hello Stefan,
Seems to me more like a xdvi configuration problem. Are you sure, that you
havn't specified the expert option either in your X-resources or on the
command line? Because that would make the buttons go away.
Regards,
Daniel
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, stefan goeman wrote:
Hello,
I
Hello Dawn
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Dawn Miller wrote:
I have a client who uses Debian GNU/Linux (versions 2.2.6, 2.2.13, 2.0.18 and
2.1.?) on four of their servers.
I have two questions that I am trying to get answered for them, and did not
find the info on the Debian web site:
1)
Hello there,
first, check that the parport and the parport_pc modules are loaded (lsmod
as root, see 'man lsmod'). If not load them (insmod). Perhaps you have to
give the parameters of your parallel port to parport_pc, e.g. issue
something like:
insmod parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7
(change io and irq
Hello Peter,
It should work, if you just rename your old .Xdefaults file into
.Xresources (it can also be done to make X read from a directory and have
files for all the single applications, but I don't remember how). In
fact, the name doesn't really matter. If you want to have resources read
Hello Ian,
On 26 Sep 2000, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
Hello. This crossed my mind more than once: why was the Gnome project
started, when there was already something called GNUStep? Even if not
a full desktop, one can certainly see the beginnings of desktop-like
functionality in WindowMaker or
Hello there,
Yesterday I did an install of potato on a 8Mb Laptop. As there's no
support for low-memory machines anymore in potato, I installed the slink
base system from the 7 floppies and then did apt-get update/apt-get
dist-upgrade.
Seems to have worked out, but when depmod is run I get the
Hello there,
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure why, but my Linux box that was printing just fine to a network
printer (via TCP/IP) no longer works. Netscape, enscript, WordPerfect, Adobe,
all worked fine until, one day (yesterday) they didn't. I restarted lpd, but
Hello there,
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, Eric G . Miller wrote:
On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:08:10AM +0200, QBA wrote:
Hi,
I have a problem because in a few days will have no free space
on one of my partitons. I mounted on it /var directory and gave
only 150MB for use. But now (after 3
Hello out there,
Pollywog wrote:
On 30-Aug-2000 CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] wrote:
Have you guys tried ctrl+alt+backspace to get back to the console instead of
(i) rebooting the box and (ii) telnetting from another machine to issue a
init 1!!! If that doesn't work, try ctrl+alt+FX (where
Hello Wayne,
On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, Wayne Topa wrote:
Subject: printing printcap
Date: Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:35:52PM -0500
In reply to:Debian Mail
Quoting Debian Mail([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hello,
Debian ghost here... have a question about printing via debian.
I ran the
Hello there,
On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, s. keeling wrote:
On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 02:35:52PM -0500, Debian Mail wrote:
Hello,
Debian ghost here... have a question about printing via debian.
I ran the magicfilterconfig and set up a laser jet printer on the lan.
I think I have this thing
On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, hogan wrote:
Check /etc/alternatives/x-window-manager symlink..
Or create a file called .xsession in your home-directory and put a line
in it:
gnome-session
Regards,
Daniel
- Original Message -
From: Greg Strockbine. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To:
Salut,
Si tu demande un X-Server pour ta carte, c'est dans le package
xserver-rage128 (distribution potato). Tu peux le trouver à
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/stable/non-free/binary-i386/xserver-rage128_0.990906-4.deb
P.S.: Excuse mon francais, c'est pas très bien.
Daniel
On Fri, 18 Aug
Hello there,
Success in defeating the password! It was not that easy:
Many of you wrote, that I should pull out the CMOS-battery. So I looked
for one, but there was nothing on that board, which looked like a battery.
So I copied the little program from Miroslav, which corrupts the checksum
of
Hello there,
I found a pretty nice 486 PCI-motherboard in the bulk waste last week,
which I would like to use as secondary computer with debian. The board is
working, but unfortunately, it was setup in a way that you can only boot
from harddisk, and shadow RAM was enabled. So I tried to change
Hello there,
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Hans wrote:
$startx gnome-session works for me. == Hans
If you don't want to type it evertime you start X, you could also put
'gnome-session' at the end of your .xsession file.
Regards,
Daniel
Hello Cam,
On Tue, 25 Jul 2000, Cam Ellison wrote:
I can't figure out how to set my email return address to what my ISP
expects. I am the only user on my system. I tried to send mail out,
with no success, eventually discovering that it was using
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You could configure
Hello there,
On Fri, 28 Jul 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
Krzys Majewski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 28/07/2000 (00:29) :
Why is it that under Windows or whatever I don't have to recompile
the kernel just to add a new driver? Is it a protection thing?
Or an optimization thing? Or something
Hello Joseph,
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Joseph de los Santos wrote:
Can someone please enlighten me regarding these subjects? I know that
postscript is a programming language that describes the appearance of a
printed page developed by Adobe in 1985 etc, and Ghostscript is an
interpreter for
Hello Michael,
Have you checked, if makeindex.1.gz is not a link to undocumented.gz?
On Sun, 2 Jul 2000, Michael Soulier wrote:
Hey guys. I'm having some problems with my manpages. I have my MANPATH
environment variable set to /usr/man:/usr/share/man. Now, under
/usr/share/man/man1 I
Hello Ashby,
On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can't seem to get my modem to dial up though. Are there
any good document pages (http) that explain how to set up
dial up scripts? My modem is on ttys3 (com4). So far, I've been
looking in /etc/ppp/* and have not understood what to
Hello everybody,
On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Preben Randhol wrote:
Oliver Schoenknecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 08/06/2000 (12:12) :
due to some misconfiguration mine my whole GNOME now
appears in complete English language - the menus as well as each
dialogue box and so on... Until
Hello David,
On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, David Teague wrote:
Subject line says it all. ghostview crashes when I try to read .pdf
files created recently. Is there a fix? Hope someone knows ... or
can give me a pointer to another source of information.
AFAIK, ghostview really has difficulties with
Hello Michiel,
On Fri, 2 Jun 2000, Michiel Meeuwissen wrote:
It seems that a way to accomplish this is running apt-get upgrade,
netsape and seti at the same time, in my computer (potato, PIII 500 64
Mb).
On Netscape's webpage they strongly recommend at least 64 Mb of RAM for
use of Netscape
Hello Jay,
On Mon, 29 May 2000, Jay Kelly wrote:
Hello Guys,
I'm currently using Gnome and starting it with startx I changed the
.xsession so that O could start it from the console but when it starts I am
no longer asked for a login name and pass. I want to be able to start gdm (I
think
Hello John,
On Sun, 28 May 2000, john smith wrote:
I have a few questions abt using ppp
1.what is a good gui program for dialing ppp instead of using pon blah in
the console or term.
There is a nice wmaker-applet called wmppp.app. You push a little button
to start the connection, you push
Hello Thomas,
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Thomas Niesel wrote:
Now I want to know how to get deb-files to the disk.
Still got an corel-image which I know its debian-based, mounted as an
loop-device.
I can browse the CD but I don't know how to install the files.
I know it's maybe old stuff but to
Hello Chris,
On Sun, 28 May 2000, Chris Joyner wrote:
I can use wvdial from a console (but only as root! BTW, how
do I get to use wvdial as another user?)
You have to add the users which shall be allowed to connect via ppp to the
dip group (e.g. with: adduser username dip).
Regards,
Daniel
Hello Owen,
On Thu, 25 May 2000, Owen G. Emry wrote:
My firewall machine (a trusty old 486 DX4) has a bios that doesn't like the
year 2000. It isn't a major problem but several things (e.g. make)
complain, so is there an easy workaround?
I assume I can just set the real-time clock to,
Hello there,
Just to add some (perhaps) useful information:
On Wed, 24 May 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote:
I did it by (manually) insmod'ing:
parport.o
parport_pc.o
lp.o
Only an issue with kernel 2.2.x and higher. With kernel 2.0.x it's a bit
different.
I found that
Hello Lee,
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Lee Elliott wrote:
Hello list(s),
Just something I noticed after setting up an x86 system after running
Debian on m68k.
The m68k system was an Amiga with an m68060/50MHz which gave a BogoMIP
rating of 99.something. The x86 system is a dual PIII 650MHz
Hello Chris,
On Wed, 17 May 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
I'm used to transferring whole directory trees with ws-ftp under windows.
When using Linux fom the shell, what's the easiest way to do the same thing?
You might have a look at wget. It can do all the transfer in the
background (so suited
Hello Russell,
You wrote:
I have been given a 2 cd copy of slink, that I am going to put on my
main box. Is there anything special that I should install/be aware of
in order to run a plip?
plip setup on slink (with kernel 2.0.x) step by step:
I suppose you have the plip module compiled.
1.)
Hello Pollywog,
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Pollywog wrote:
I did not configure a printer when I installed Debian. Is there a
tool to help me configure a printer now without reinstalling Debian?
Of course you can configure a printer without reinstalling. The Debian way
of doing things lets you do
Hello Maury,
Read the printing HOWTO at
http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html
short summary of the steps you would have to take:
- install spooling software (lpr or lprng or similar)
- if you don't just want to be able to print plain text: install gs
- install filter software
Hello Jonathan,
On Fri, 12 May 2000, Jonathan Gift wrote:
Does the install procedure on Potato require you dig up the monitor's
frequency rate, etc,
Yes it does. You can of course always choose one of the least demanding
modes for the hardware (640x480, 16 colours (in fact this is what
Hello all there,
On Wed, 3 May 2000, Steve Lamb wrote:
For me it isn't a GUI/CLI mindset it is simply the ability to do what
needs to be done. Windows doesn't let me do that in most cases. The standard
'nix utilities provide a lot of automation for mundane tasks.
I've been following
Hello Robert,
Just a few additions to Ron's information (wanted to send something
similar, but Ron was faster ;-)
On 4 May 2000, Robert Fendt wrote:
i have read the ethernet-HOWTO and the networking-HOWTO, but somehow it was
pretty late at night and i wasn't able to get the info i wanted.
Hello Sven,
On Thu, 4 May 2000, Sven Burgener wrote:
I guess the next thing to do is to install a window manager, right?
right. For best KDE-integration you could use Enlightenment (Though a
resource hog). If you want to use a lightweight alternative, you could use
blackbox. There are many
Hello out there,
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Ross Boylan wrote:
Stability:
Balsa crashes very frequently.
This seems to be a widely encountered problem. On my box (i486), balsa
from potato crashes just on startup (Segfault). It was the first time I
installed it, so I got the one from stable for
Hello Dominic,
On Tue, 2 May 2000, Dominic Blythe wrote:
Do yourself a favor, and PRINT IT OUT. It comes in
postscript format, so you
should be able to just drag-n-drop the postscript file to
your printer.
not with 99.99% of Win printers...
If you have aladdin ghostscript
Hello Dan,
On Mon, 1 May 2000, Dan Hutchinson wrote:
I have loaded my home PC with the base system from debian download.
I try to connect to the web to download the debian packages from the
web.
When I run dselect it trys to connect through the NIC card I have.
I have a PC with a NIC and a
Hello out there,
On Tue, Apr 25, 2000 at 06:37:36PM +0200, Joost Claessen wrote:
On your console, type
reset (no quotes)
I encountered cases, where this didn't work, then use:
consolechars -d (on potato)
on slink it was:
setfont -d
Regards,
Daniel
Hello there,
When at home, I connect my laptop to my desktop via PLIP. The printer I
have, is connected to the desktop, so I had setup lpd on my laptop in a
way, that it can do remote printing via the desktop (remote line printer
entry in /etc/printcap). This works fine with slink on the desktop.
Hello Viktor,
On Fri, 21 Apr 2000, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote:
is there good
documentation of the Postscript file format, so somebody could write a
short perl script?
There is a book called The Postscript Language Reference Manual from
Adobe Systems Inc. published by Addison Wesley. This book
Hello Joe,
On Fri, 14 Apr 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
Currently, I'm having this problem with one. Just... out of the blue, it
will hang dead in its tracks. The keyboard doesn't even wake the screen so I
can see if there are any kernel panic messages or anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del
doesn't do
Hello Kent,
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Kent Nyberg wrote:
Where can i find kde in .deb ??
look at kde's website at:
http://www.kde.org/
They offer prepackaged binaries in .deb format.
Regards,
Daniel
Hello John,
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, John Anderson wrote:
I tried putting normal users in /etc/group under dip like this:
dip:x:1000:1001
still, the computer says, permission denied to /usr/sbin/pppd. Did I
configure it incorrectly? Is there anyway to get this working?
Perhaps it would
Hello Mark,
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Mark Phillips wrote:
When I start the machine the letters LI come on the
screen and then nothing happens.
In the meantime, I'm trying to advise him from afar. I am thinking he
needs to get a rescue disk from somewhere,
That's definitely the right way to
Hello Nikos,
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Nikos Voutsinas wrote:
I found that I should recompile the kernel with the NFSD support...
The problem is that there isn't any NFSD option in the Network FileSystem
part, but only the NFS filesystem support
...?
I don't know if missing nfs code in the
Hello Zhang,
On 10 Apr 2000, maths wrote:
by the way, where can i find good tutorial of GDB?
IMHO the info pages provide a pretty good introduction to gdb.
But there may be far better documentation about it somewhere on the web.
Regards,
Daniel
Hello Colin,
On Wed, 5 Apr 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am looking to use PLIP to network 2 machines together.
I'm running kernel 2.2.14, and have the PLIP module available, along with the
other obvious modules like TCP/IP, firewalling, etc.
However, upon modprobe plip, i get the error:
Hello there,
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Paolo Pedaletti wrote:
Ciao Chris Gray,
have a stupid question about gs: how to specify the pages i
want to print?
by the way and how to print in reverse order a n 1 of pages?
I haven't find anything, looking around...
Try the package
Hello John,
On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, John Gould wrote:
Hello everyone,
I need to give a couple of users a simple editor that works
within a virtual terminal (not X). These people are not really computer
literate and would have trouble with vi or vim. They would be following
Hello Bart,
Can anybody tell me how to make a *simple* makefile? Or a URL where I can
find more info? The manpages aren't very clear, and *way* too extensive.
try the info-pages on make (hope you have some kind of info-browser
installed).
There is a chapter at the beginning (some kind of
Hello there,
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, John Anderson wrote:
Did you configure the parallel printer port module during the installation
of
Debian? If not that may explain the problem. I'm not very experienced with
Linux, but I would say that the kernal would have to be redone or reinstalling
Hello there,
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Evan Moore wrote:
after reading a binary file sometimes the terminal gets all messed up and
everything is displayed in symbols. I'm sure everyone has done this a few
times. How can I get my terminal back to
Hello there,
On 7 Mar 2000, Marshal Wong wrote:
If I may inquire, why are you trying to compile a 2.2.x kernel for a
i386? That's going to hurt. I compiled a 2.0.x kernel on my old 486
and it took over 5 hours!
What kind of kernel did you compile, and on what kind of machine?
I compiled
Hello there,
On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, S.P. van Noort wrote:
the
only printer that is sold in The Netherlands which works perfectly is the
HP 610C.
I just recently bought a HP 610C, and it works really fine.
The printers I've seen here in Holland are, a.o.
HP 610, 710, 720, 815, 840, 880
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