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1999-08-30 Thread Person, Roderick
unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roderick P. Person Programmer I CCBH (412)454-2616 We're not that good. Everyone else just sucks! - anon. Navy Seal

RE: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Person, Roderick
From looking at this I and what the sound is I take a stab at this: The crackling sound sounds like the scan that updates your find dB. When you do a find on your computer it checks this dB for locations of things(to be simple). Anyway I think you Linux parts are too big, hence it seems as if it

RE: XFCom_SVGA server xfree86-3.3.3 and the ps/2 mouse.

1999-07-28 Thread Person, Roderick
To: Person, Roderick Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: XFCom_SVGA server xfree86-3.3.3 and the ps/2 mouse. I am currently running potato and the xfree86-3.3.3 package from netgod. I download the XFCom_SVGA server with vmware. i'm running pretty old debian base

XFCom_SVGA server xfree86-3.3.3 and the ps/2 mouse.

1999-07-27 Thread Person, Roderick
I am currently running potato and the xfree86-3.3.3 package from netgod. I download the XFCom_SVGA server with vmware. I installed and ran it fine for a day or two. Then I had to reboot and X would not start. It says that the ps/2 protocal is not supported with this server. Strange it ran for two

RE: X server for crappy Packard Hell machine

1999-07-22 Thread Person, Roderick
My original linux box was a Packard Hell 486 SX 33 with 528k video board that ran X server - slow but ran. I even used Window Maker. I like punishment!! If you send me more details I try and help the best I can!! Rod -Original Message- From: Stuart Ballard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Microphone input in X.

1999-07-22 Thread Person, Roderick
Does anyone know, is there a /dev/mic or a module that needs to be loaded to get a mic input to work. I have a Sound Blaster 16 PCI it works in everyother way but not mic input. Come to thing of it I haven't tried the line so I don't know if that works. Roderick P. Person Programmer I CCBH

RE: Web Counter

1999-07-21 Thread Person, Roderick
There is a package called wwwcount I believe. If I remember you need to be running a server to use it - I'm not sure. If you just need scripts for counters on a web page check out this page. There are JAVA, Perl and CGI scripts that you can use for a number of things

RE: STABLE graphical FTP clients?

1999-07-20 Thread Person, Roderick
Try wx_ftp. I think there is a deb. I got the tar version myself. It's the Linux version of ws_ftp Rod.. -Original Message- From: Bryan Scaringe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 20, 1999 11:53 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: STABLE graphical FTP

Linuxcare Debian Promo Poster

1999-07-15 Thread Person, Roderick
Any one hear about the LinuxCare promo poster given away at the Bay Area Linux User Group meeting in June. It a woman covering her ass with a Debian CD cover. Anyway, does anyone know if I can get a copy of it on line somewhere? Roderick P. Person Programmer I CCBH (412)454-2616 We're not that

RE: Linuxcare Debian Promo Poster

1999-07-15 Thread Person, Roderick
... -Original Message- From: Jonathan Lupa [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 11:28 AM To: Person, Roderick Subject: RE: Linuxcare Debian Promo Poster Hmmm... Im pretty sure it was a RedHat 6.0 box. In any event, if you get a URL, I'd appreciate it if you

RE: accessing the dos partition

1999-07-07 Thread Person, Roderick
When you use dselect, did you chose to install from a existing partition/filesystem? -Original Message- From: pplaw [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 1999 3:38 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: accessing the dos partition hello debian community,

Need Help Building my first .debs???

1999-07-06 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, I'm trying to package a .deb. I have read and followed the docs and the HOWTOs. I must be missing something. I get a error 1 when running rules script. Can someone point me to a nice tutorial on the web or give me some helpful hints? Is there a generic way to build .debs? Roderick P.

apt-find...where is libapt2.5

1999-07-06 Thread Person, Roderick
I tried to get apt-find but it tells me that I need libapt2.5. I can seem to find it anywhere although I have found libapt.0.3-dev. Does anyone know where libapt2.5 is. Roderick P. Person Programmer I CCBH (412)454-2616 We're not that good. Everyone else just sucks! - anon. Navy Seal

RE: Need Help Building my first .debs???

1999-07-06 Thread Person, Roderick
guess I'll try that. -Original Message- From: Bradley Bell [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 2:22 PM To: Person, Roderick Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Need Help Building my first .debs??? Well, what's the error? If the program you're

windowmaker and sound.

1999-06-28 Thread Person, Roderick
I have windowmaker make 0.60 running on a potato system with a Soundblaster 16 PnP. The card works, if I use WSoundPrefs to set my sound setting I get sound when I hit the play button. I save the settings and shut down WsoundPrefs and the program exit sound comes. Then all sound dies. I don't get

Need Recommendations on Apps for Debian.

1999-06-28 Thread Person, Roderick
Ok guys, I need to know if anyone knows of any apps like the following: A linux version of SHIVA. An app that will allow me to create business cards An app to do floor plan of a home or office. TIA, Roderick P. Person Programmer I CCBH (412)454-2616 We're not that good. Everyone else just

RealProducer...Anyone get it to run under Debian?

1999-06-25 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, I just downloaded RealProducer from Download.com. I untared and placed it in the appropriate location and read the readme and did what it told me to do. But, it doesn't run. I'm using potato and have recently install java1.2pre from blackdown.org. I think this may be the problem? Is

GNOME apps and CORBA.

1999-06-25 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey all, I'm using potato/slink mix all base files and libs are potato. Apps are a mixture. Anyway, I use WindowMaker and have no other window manger installed nor do I plan to. There are some gnome app that I like and want to try but am find problems with some. gnome control panel works -

RE: cannot mount CD-ROM! - Pls help

1999-06-09 Thread Person, Roderick
the /cdrom is a directory that you will change to to view the content of the cdrom. for example in you /etc/fstab /dev/hdc /cdrom iso9660 auto,noauto 0 0 here the cdrom will mount on /cdrom directoy so when you cd /cdrom and ls and the program on the cdrom will be there. Rod...

RE: A couple of questions.

1999-06-07 Thread Person, Roderick
WMPrefs has a sections that allows you to modifiy the key bindings Rod -Original Message- From: Monte Copeland [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 07, 1999 3:02 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: A couple of questions. 2. When using Netscape

RE: java

1999-06-02 Thread Person, Roderick
To: debian-user Subject: Re: java Hi all, Where can I find the JDK2 for linux? thanks! -Original Message- From: Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 3:53 PM

RE: Death of a 2nd WD hard drive

1999-06-02 Thread Person, Roderick
I been using TWO WD Caviars for 6 or 7 month now. Without any problems at all. They run fine. I think it sounds more like a case of a bad batch of hardware. Rod.. -Original Message- From: Douglas Federman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 1999 11:00 AM To:

RE: 2 lingering probs

1999-06-01 Thread Person, Roderick
I'm having the same types of problems with different modules. Myself my cdrom sound modules. I was thinking it was caused due to my change in kernels, but after reading your message I did exaclty the same with libc6 upgrade and the downgrade. This has beening going on with me for sometime, so I

RE: pppd / pon problem

1999-06-01 Thread Person, Roderick
Check /etc/group file and make sure that your user account has the permission in the dial group. -Original Message- From: Christian Dysthe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 1999 3:08 PM To: Debian-user Subject: pppd / pon problem Hi, I run potato. Just did

RE: why make partitions?

1999-06-01 Thread Person, Roderick
I used to wonder the samething. When I started using Linux, I always wonder why partition a disk to use the same OS on all the partitions. Then I made a big boo boo and hosed system and re-installed all 500MB of downloads again, that took over a week to get!! So, I decided to try the partition and

RE: upgrade problem

1999-05-28 Thread Person, Roderick
I'm not a potato user, but it should as if you have a font path in your xf86config that does not exist anymore, or possible has moved from it slink placement to it potato placement. This happened to me with truetype fonts placement from hamm to slink. Check on that. Hope it helps. Rod...

RE: java

1999-05-28 Thread Person, Roderick
There are linux .tar of JDK, but as Shao said I would use .debs until you get familiar with debian. I'm attempting to use JDK2 myself from the Solaris .tar, but it has been as easy as I thought it would be. But, JDK1.1 run fine either as the .deb or the .tar. Be sure to check out blackdown, there

RE: Replacement for Netscape

1999-05-26 Thread Person, Roderick
My original reason for switching to Linux was that my poor old box (HANK r.i.p) was only a 486SX33 with 8MB of RAM. I ran X and Netscape on it with no problem. It took time for it to start up Netscape and such apps, but once started the ran with problem. Now I have a P166 overclocked to 200Mhz

RE: linuxconf

1999-05-25 Thread Person, Roderick
, so I never used it. But the X package and the rest seemed to work fine! Rod... -Original Message- From: Johannes Beigel [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 24, 1999 3:11 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: linuxconf Person, Roderick [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: linuxconf

1999-05-24 Thread Person, Roderick
There is a linuxconf in the debian experimental archives. It requires libc6 from potatoe and some other stuff from there, it works and is better that the linuxconf that I used (redhat 5.1 version). The X version of the linuxconf is really cool. But, the libc6 from potatoe did like some stuff on my

zxip??

1999-05-20 Thread Person, Roderick
was I in some haze or fog or was it just to late at night, but wasn't there a package called xzip or some type of .zip .tar frontend for x. Does anyone know? I can't seem to find anything in slink. Rod

Linux and FreeBSD file system mounting.

1999-05-17 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey all, I've been playing with FreeBSD and Linux. I was trying to mount a FreeBSD partition from linux and got a nice little message. And being at work right now i can remember the error, but I remember the second line of the error said Sun Fing Sucks me. AH, although I love the error

RE: Configuring X server

1999-05-17 Thread Person, Roderick
The first thing I think you should do is reconfigure your xserver using PS/2 as the protocal, just because it a microsoft mouse doesn't mean it's microsoft protocal. With your window manager being twm all you should get is a checkered screen on the inital start up. twm is VERY basic. After the

Time Keeps A changin'

1999-05-07 Thread Person, Roderick
Ok guys, I've asked this before, but I try again. I upgraded to libc6 in potato and it hosed my JDK and a few other thing I use, so I downgraded to libc6 from slink. Then my time got screwed. I reinstalled timezones and set the date a time and everything seemed fine. Except that when I need to

processes spawned by usr 'nobody'?

1999-05-07 Thread Person, Roderick
I have noticed that every so often my HD would start to whine like it was being search. It made me curious and a ran a top and I found the a the find utility was started by user 'nobody'. Is this a normal thing to have processes spawned by the nobody user? Or is this a problem as I think it to be?

OFF TOPIC: Solaris x86, WABI and Linux.....

1999-05-06 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guy, I'm staring at a copy of solaris for intel arch, that includes the WABI cdrom. Any one have any experience with using this. Is it worth installing on a 133 pentium? I have found some softtware for solaris that I want to use but can't ge tit to run on linux. That is question 2, has

RE: IDE for JAVA

1999-05-05 Thread Person, Roderick
I've been testing out a couple of JAVA and JAVA/C++ IDEs lately, So far I have Tried Elixir IDE, Simplicity IDE and Wipeout. I have downloaded NetBeans but it's was the .pl auto installer and I have got that to compile yet. Of the three Simplicity is the coolest. It like Visual C++ by M$, it

LinuxBerg??

1999-05-04 Thread Person, Roderick
Has anyone checkout linuxberg.com. I went there to check out some themes and such, but everything I follow is a windows theme. I even downloaded the LINUXBERG theme and it for win95. That cool since I'm at work and using NT, but what is the deal. I can't seem to find anything fro linux. I'm I

FW: Microsoft Restaurant...Just some Microsoft humor

1999-04-30 Thread Person, Roderick
If Restaurants Functioned Like Microsoft... Patron: Waiter! Waiter: Hi, my name is Bill, and I'll be your Support. Waiter. What seems to be the problem? Patron: There's a fly in my soup! Waiter: Try again, maybe the fly won't be there this time. Patron: No, it's still there.

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Person, Roderick
I have to say that using the gpm autodetect never worked for me. Just type in the mouse type and info yourself Just use /dev/psaux for the mouse type. I never used XF86Setup. Didn't like it. I prefer xf86config, much better! Try that and use the same driver for the mouse. -Original

RE: silly mouse question

1999-04-30 Thread Person, Roderick
It claims that /dev/psaux is not a directory (which I agree with :) ). Sorry I didn't mention it [Person, Roderick] This sound like the you need to make the device, although I have to say I never had this problem, with a mouse of having to make the device. I'm

KAFFE?

1999-04-28 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi, I remember reading some e-mails about Kaffe and potato. Is there a Kaffe Deb available. I can't find one, I've look in experimental and potato. If not, can someone give me pointers on compiling the .tar. I have that, but can get it working. Thanks Rod

Boot Error Message after potato upgrade.

1999-04-23 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi All, Just installed Gimp1.1 from potato using apt-get and got 11.4M of upgrade. I'm using kernel 2.2.5 (F%$ HOSTILE!! aka Rules). Anyway, after the gimp upgrade I get this error on boot. initd 2.76 booting could not initalize It hangs for sometime the boots. Everything

RE: xterm/top horizontal scrollbar

1999-04-23 Thread Person, Roderick
Have you tried RXVT. I know it has a vertical scroll, but I have never noticed if it has a horizontal. I haven't run into a need for one yet, that I can recall. -Original Message- From: ktb [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 23, 1999 12:03 PM To:

RE: Fonts is X and Linux

1999-04-22 Thread Person, Roderick
What window manager are you using? Most have a configuration util that allows you to set different fonts. I use WindowMaker and I can set fonts either with WMPrefs or wmakerconf. -Original Message- From: Tommy Malloy [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 1999 11:35 AM To:

IDEA:Offical Debian Support Team?

1999-04-20 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guys, I've noticed a lot of vendors jumping on the Linux bandwagon and and starting to offer support for thier system that run Linux. But, it seems that it is only for SUSE, Redhat, Caldera and TurboLinux. WHY NOT DEBIAN? Is it because we are not commercial? And if so, I propose a Debian

Children Linux and Wine....

1999-04-19 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi Fellas, I'm at work and my 10 year old just called me to find out how to shutdown Debian and boot Win95. This brings a question to mind. Has anyone successfully or half-successfully gotten a Win95 game for Kids to work? I have gotten wine to run notepad and such, but being there is nothing I

RE: spreadsheet that can open CSV files?

1999-04-15 Thread Person, Roderick
I use WingzPro. I got it from ftp.sunsite as a .tar but It works for me. Rod -Original Message- From: rich [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 15, 1999 9:18 AM To: Debian Subject: spreadsheet that can open CSV files? Hello all, I would also like to be able

Modules loading problems.

1999-04-15 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi All, I 've been very busy and haven't had much time to read the group lately but I'm back. Anyway, I have a problem with loading my modules for 2.2.3. I had to compile the modules for the GSCD driver. It seem to have gone fine. I did make install and still seemed good. But, when I modconfig or

Slink upgrade and /usr/local problems locating libs!

1999-03-30 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guys, Since I have upgraded to slink I have noticed that when I unzip certain tars in /usr/local the binaries seem to have trouble finding the required libs. For example, Wingz3 can't find libXpm.so.4 although it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. Wingz3 worked with hamm. Has there been some kind of

lspci -- can't find.

1999-03-30 Thread Person, Roderick
I have kernel 2.2.3 installed. I on boot when the sound module is loaded I get the error lspci:can't find I forget the rest (i'm at work), but when I try to initalize the sound card with isapnp I get the same error. What is lspci? Where do I get it? Thanks Rod.

Recommendations C++ compiler and IDE.

1999-03-24 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, I need recommendations for a C++ compiler and IDE. I am an app developer for a health insurance company, pretty small in size. 3 peopl in the IS shop. So far I have been unsuccesful in my attempts to get the higher ups to switch for a NT network to Debian. So, I like to be able to work

RE: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Person, Roderick
This is cool! this seems to be exaclty what I'm looking for! Finaly I can play my Darksun games in Linux!! I guess I can do my work at home to. -Original Message- From: Shaun Lipscombe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 10:02 AM To: Egon Schmid Cc: Person

RE: SAMBA

1999-03-23 Thread Person, Roderick
Orion and NHL 97 and all my DND games, that run in Win and Dos -Original Message- From: Will Lowe [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 1999 10:22 AM To: Person, Roderick Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: SAMBA I was wondering if it was possible

Slink Questions apt and /dev.

1999-03-22 Thread Person, Roderick
I just completely upgraded to slink. I decided to use the apt method of installation from dselect since ftp is no longer there. It seemd to work well. Chose the packages and download while I slept, answered some config questions before work this morning. My question is with the old ftp it aked

RE: more ram and larger harddrive then the bios can take

1999-03-22 Thread Person, Roderick
I did this with a 486 33 whose BIOS limit was 850Mb. I installed a 6.4GB. DOS could do nothing with it. But linux worked fine. cfdisk detected the whole drive and I never had a problem. Until, I formated a partition using WIN 95 and used it to store data from Win95. Windows really hosed the drive,

LINUX Magazine

1999-03-19 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey, Just a little heads up to those who don't know. I was in Barnes Nobles and there is a new Linux Mag called Linux Magazine. Of course there is an interview with Linus. But by far the coolest thing is the cover. All black with a big Microscared in gray cracked stone like look. I didn't even

RE: LINUX Magazine

1999-03-19 Thread Person, Roderick
www.linux-mag.com -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 19, 1999 3:43 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: LINUX Magazine In a message dated 3/19/99 2:38:57 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL

RE: Stumped!! Cdrom not a valid block dev.

1999-03-18 Thread Person, Roderick
We have a winner. Broken CD . I guiess I've been hackin' too hard Roderick P. Person aka Roddie Rod ? 454-2616 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: E.L. Meijer (Eric) [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 18, 1999 4:14 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Forcing Modules

1999-03-18 Thread Person, Roderick
i'm trying to force old modules into a new kernel. Specifically kernel 2.0.36 modules into kernel 2.2.3. I tried i nsmod -f modulename not luck. It tells me that module was compile for kernel 2.0.36. Now, the reason is that my 2.2.3 was an image I downloaded.

RE: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-18 Thread Person, Roderick
First modem is MultiTech ZDX 19.2k bps and the second is a USR Courier v.everything 33.6k bps. Are they set to different settings. If they are on the same setting you will get nothing. Hummm, are you talking about the modem's config, or

System Hosed a.k.a Don't be nice to the wife and Mother-in-law!!

1999-03-17 Thread Person, Roderick
OK, The Mistakes It was all my stupid mistake. I was working with some tar's having fun hacking in Debian, and then my wife and mother-in-law need to use the computer to web browse. So since I had netscape running in Debian and that what they use in Win95, I decided to be nice and let them use

RE: Kernel 2.2.1 question.

1999-03-17 Thread Person, Roderick
Yes I did compile with elf support. -Original Message- From: Paul Miller [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 1999 8:04 PM To: Person, Roderick Cc: debian-user Subject: Re: Kernel 2.2.1 question. Person, Roderick wrote: Paul, Thanks for the reply. I

RE: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-17 Thread Person, Roderick
In minicom you need to make your modem either: /dev/ttyS2 or /dev/ttyS3 Depending on which modem your using. BTW, /dev/ttyS2 would be your 3rd serial port, /dev/ttyS0 being the first serial port and so on..

RE: grrr, No response from modem

1999-03-17 Thread Person, Roderick
What kind of modems are they. Did they ever work in Debian. -Original Message- From: Jay Barbee [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 11:42 AM To: Person, Roderick; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: grrr, No response from modem At 3/17/99 11:18 AM

RE: Can Debian run in IMacs?

1999-03-17 Thread Person, Roderick
Won't the m68k version run on an IMAC. -Original Message- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 1:55 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Can Debian run in IMacs? Hi all, My teacher was

RE: Can Debian run in IMacs?

1999-03-17 Thread Person, Roderick
I did not know that. Thanks I was thinking of getting one as a second PC, but not know! -Original Message- From: Ares [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 1999 2:28 PM To: Person, Roderick Cc: 'Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira'; debian-user@lists.debian.org

RE: installing debian

1999-03-17 Thread Person, Roderick
When you deleted the partition in DOS, did you restart the computer. You then should have free space in the amount of the erased partition. What is the rescue disks error message when you try to partition the disk. Do you have Debian CDs too? -Original Message- From: Juan Revollo

RE: REQUEST

1999-03-17 Thread Person, Roderick
Let me get this. You have gotten past the base install and are trying to install packages. You then start dselect and try and select a install method (harddrive, cdrom, NFS etc.) and it can't find your HD? -Original Message- From: m.nau [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March

Kernel 2.2.1 question.

1999-03-15 Thread Person, Roderick
I compiled this kernel and I noticed that the vmlinuz image was not set as executable. So I chmod so it would be and I got a kernel panic. I compile again and tried to boot, leaveing it as not executable and got module load errors that left me only able to reboot to my old kernel. I use loadlin to

Floppy Drive Problem.

1999-03-11 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guys, The first question of the day for me has to due with Debian and Floppy drives. When I first installed debian, I had no problems with floppy drives, and in the quest for the perfect Deb Box something when wrong, I guess. It seems that I can format ext2 fs on floppy. At first I thougth

kernel Image Size.

1999-03-11 Thread Person, Roderick
Ok, I finally got a kernel to compile!! Now, it telling me it too large to mount!!! So I remade it, making as much stuff as possible as modules. Still too large. So I tried to make bzImage - STILL TOO LARGE!! What FF is the larges size a Kernel can be to get mounted!! My smallest kernel so

RE: Debian

1999-03-11 Thread Person, Roderick
Are you sure your mailing the right list or am I just missing the question. Are you looking for an app to help design badges and pins or are you looking for a Debian logo or something all together different? -Original Message- From: marfe98 [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday,

RE: WVDial segfaulting

1999-03-09 Thread Person, Roderick
I use wvdial and have never had nay problems. How is he disconnecting it? Is he using it under X or Console. You can hit ctrl + C and it will 'attempt to exit gracfully' and disconnect without seg faults -Original Message- From: Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira [SMTP:[EMAIL

rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent

1999-03-09 Thread Person, Roderick
I have installed some tars and I need to set some thing to run at boot. For example I need to have the followiung to line execute at boot. /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt --sync /usr/X11R6/bin/xfstt I used RH for a minute and these were

RE: Bios Problem

1999-03-09 Thread Person, Roderick
I assume you installed linux to boot from the HD. If so, it looks as if you Box can only boot up HD1. It looking for Linux there. You need to get a boot disk and fix your MBR. -Original Message- From: Simone Rapizzi [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 1999 12:40 PM To:

Re: rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent

1999-03-09 Thread Person, Roderick
This is my problem I think. I have the hamm xfstt installed. i didn't know it was broken. i think I'm going to install this from slink, then try the other stuff if no good. Will I have to more ny ttfs from /var/ttfonts? BTW, for some reason when I try to reply all to your emails, my sytem blows

Kernel Image. Where can I Find one?

1999-03-08 Thread Person, Roderick
I have tried and tried to compile a Kernel, for sound... I just can't seem to do it. Does anyone know where I can find a kernel Image with sound compiled in. I'm running 2.0.34 now. So I would like it to be that or higher. Roderick P. Person 'Still Have given me a title, and I'm writing Visual

RE: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive.

1999-03-05 Thread Person, Roderick
This is what I did, except I believe I used the Linux fdisk to create the partitions. Is this going to make such a difference. Windows does not detect my Linux partitions - so maybe the overlapping partitions my be the answer I will check that out as soon as I get home. Thanks All!!

RE: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive - Other Co-existi ng OS Problems...

1999-03-05 Thread Person, Roderick
This maybe true, but I have noticed that once I mount a DOS floppy in Debian after two or three times It is unreadable by Windows. It seems to me that Linux is Hell on floppies. Even my Debian only floppies seem to have a extremely short life. I thought my Floppy was dying then i changed it and

Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive.

1999-03-04 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, Recently, I added a new drive to my system as the slave 2nd drive. Therefore, I made my old drive a Win95 drive so the family could play games and such. Now it seems that everytime I log into my Linux drive (/dev/hdb) I get file system not unmount correctly errors. I fsck and get it in

RE: x won't run

1999-03-04 Thread Person, Roderick
If it wasn't for the fact that you had X running under FreeBSD, I would say you window manager is not configured. I have always had problems with X86Setup. I would try xf86config, it's not pretty but it works better IMHO. Rod -Original Message- From: Chen Xu [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive.

1999-03-04 Thread Person, Roderick
-Original Message- From: Raymond A. Ingles [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 1999 4:52 PM To: Person, Roderick Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: Re: Can Windows95 cause error on my Linux Drive. On Thu, 4 Mar 1999, Person, Roderick wrote: Hey All

root doesn't have permission?

1999-03-01 Thread Person, Roderick
What would cause root not to have permission to delete a file, directory or symlinks. Is there anyway to correct this problem. I've tried chown and chmod and everthing I can think of.

Lilo or Loadlin...

1999-02-19 Thread Person, Roderick
Ok, I've settled the problem of HD size and I can live with the answer now my problem is this, hdb hold all my linux stuff it works. hda is a small 250M that is dedicated to windows (for the wife and kids). Problem, I have now documentation on the drive since it came with the PC and dont know the

Floppy Drive Alignment Software

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi All, My 3.5 floppy is out of alignment, I know for other OSs there is software to help you align your drive is there any for Debian or Linux in general. thanks Rod

Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
I just bought a 6.4GB but Linux only reads it as 6.0GB, which Kernal do I need to get the full access Thanks.

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
'; 'Person, Roderick' Cc: 'The recipient's address is unknown.' Subject: RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD Just a guess. I think it sees the whole thing. Disk drive makers sometimes use 1000bytes as 1k, whereas, most folks use 1024. The disk folks think 1,000,000,000 bytes is 1G

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
If I get what your saying here. Linux does report the correct heads,sectors, cylinders as the manufacture claims are on the disk. But it only reports 6.1GB FDISK sees only this too. Rod -- From: Philippe Andersson[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 16,

RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-16 Thread Person, Roderick
-- From: David Zanetti[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 3:34 PM To: 'Person, Roderick' Cc: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: RE: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD I've never had any such problems with both of my 6.4 Western

Sane Mustek configuration.

1999-02-10 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi all, I have a Mustek CG-6000 hand held color scanner ( it's perfectly fine for what I do), anyway I can't seem to get it to be acknowledged by sane. When I find-scanner, it doesn't find it. I think the problem is the scanner is connected to a card no a serial or parallel port. Although, I know

Idea for popularizing Debian!

1999-02-09 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey, I was reading the /. poll stuff and I just though, why don't some Debian user get together and do some Type of volunteer advertising via web page and if funds can be raise via Linux Journal and other pubs Roderick P. Person Programmer/ Analyst 454-2616 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Netscape Error --- Error 209

1999-02-08 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey it 's me again, I switched from Mozilla to Netscape to try and get things running. I got the ppp and DNS running now I get the following error from Netscape. Error 209: bus error Now I don't understand this at all. I set the MOZILLA_HOME Variable. Qweb, Arena and Lynx work (qweb

[OFF-TOPIC] CRC errors 33.6 3 COM external modem

1999-01-28 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey all, been spending time upgrading hardway. I aquired a 33.6 3Com external modem. Quite a boost from my old 14.4...I quess If I did get so many F#$ CRC errors. I've tried what the manual syas to do load ATF1 no luck, different phone line. Lower the port rate no luck. I use

3Com/USR modem and firmware upgrade??

1999-01-21 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, I just acquired a 3Com/USR 33.6 modem. It came with the software to upgrade it to a 56k modem of course its for Win95 or Win3.1 My Box is 100% Debian. No DOS no Windows. Does any one no of a way to upgrade the modem. I assume that a linux version is not in existence. I know I need

X apps and windowmaker

1999-01-15 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey all, I'm using windowmaker 0.20.3 and some apps that I run Maxwell, xmaddressbook, amaya and xpaint are larger then my virtual screen. When this happens I can get either to the title bar to Kill the app or to the bottom of the app to resize it. I set windowmakers to keep apps inside the

windowmakers .0.20 and dockit.

1999-01-11 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey All, Just got windowmaker 0.20.0 running and I noticed that dockit does seem to work. I tried to run it from Midnight Commander and it said it didn't exist although I can see it plain as day. What 's the deal. Is it gone or just a bug... Rod.

RE: windowmakers .0.20 and dockit.

1999-01-11 Thread Person, Roderick
at 01:08:54PM -0500, Person, Roderick wrote: Hey All, Just got windowmaker 0.20.0 running and I noticed that dockit does seem to work. I tried to run it from Midnight Commander and it said it didn't exist although I can see it plain as day. it has become obsolete with the advent

RE: Switch to Red Hat?

1999-01-08 Thread Person, Roderick
I would say don't do it. I switched to Red Hat for this reason and it the biggest regret of my linux life! Red Hat ran slower in everything on my sytstem. The installition is very simple but it make admin task very complex (without using the graphical interfaces). The structure of the file system

Booting Problems, Floopy drive is dying!!

1998-12-29 Thread Person, Roderick
Hi All, I am upgrading a system from Red Hat to Debian 2.0. But it seems the floppy drive on the box is dead. I can not write a boot disk no matter what I tried to do. I use new floppies, old floppies etc and nothing works. At the point where dinstall ask you to insert a floppy and everything

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