Lev Lvovsky wrote:
I'm having a problem with downloads from my machine (slink). On the
network I have at home, I can upload at the regular high speeds, but
downloading form the machine (to a Win98 machine), whether it be by ftp, or
by http gives me a little bit of the file, and then slows
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David R. Kohel wrote:
Anyone know how to get rid of this 2x2 cm mouse cursor under X?
I just re-installed X (3.3.3.1) from potato.
You REALLY need to give some more information. At the very least, we need
to know which graphics card and
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David R. Kohel wrote:
The x probe output is below. I'm using the SVGA server with a
Neomagic card.
The cursor appears as a large square with upper left hand corner
at the mouse point, replacing the normal arrow symbol. I've got
no
Thomas MANGIN wrote:
I am now facing another nice problem : my SB 128 isn t detected. I was
befdore using a Crystal card which was perfecltly working but now my
Standard Sound
Blaster is not working.
The SoundBlaster PCI cards are not hardware compatible with the ISA based
SoundBlaster
Ossama Othman wrote:
I wanted to thank Robert Woodcock and everyone who helped me (sorry, I
don't recall their names :( ) for helping me figure out how to boot my
Dell PowerEdge Server 6300. I am now the proud user (not owner, I wish!
:) of a Quad-CPU Xeon Dell system with a gig (960MB with
Oliver Elphick wrote:
BOHICA wrote:
I tried re-symlinking /dev/mouse to /dev/psaux
BOHICA:/dev$ rm mouse
BOHICA:/dev$ ln -s /dev/mouse /dev/psaux
but for some reason this causes /dev/psaux to link to /dev/ttyS0.
You got the command back-to-front.
So now I have: /dev/mouse =
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Jonathan Sprague dixit:
dd if=FILE.EXT of=/dev/fd0 (for floppy a:)
say I want to make an image of Slackware's boot root disks from my cdrom
to the floppy, would it be as follows?:
mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom
mount -t ext2 /dev/fd0 /floppy
LOPARIC Marko wrote:
Do you know how to export xfig figures with latex commands and insert them
in latex files? I was unlucky with pictex, eepic and pstex_t.
[snip]
3. pstex_t: That is the format suggested in the documentation of tranfig
package. But I was unnable to find the file
Martin Waller wrote:
I've been a lucky boy and have got a new 56.6k modem for xams to replace
my old 14.4.
An old linux book I have (from kernel 1.2.13, and for slackware...) says
to get fast modem speeds I have to run setserial ttys1 115200 to get
higher modem speeds.
The modem works
Jiri Baum wrote:
Hello,
I've just installed the Samba-server (and read the man-pages). I might be
missing something but I can't figure out how to get a list of what Wimpdos
calls the entire network. Can this be done without knowing any
server-names?
Hmm, can't find that! The best I can
Jeff Noxon wrote:
Re-install xlib6g and it should work. Now if only I could get Acrobat
working again...
Removing /usr/i486-linuxlibc1/lib/X11/locale (empty dir) and linking it to
/usr/lib/X11/locale instead worked for me. A small glitch in the upgrade
process, I presume.
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Gregory Dickinson wrote:
Here's my (somewhat strange) situation, I hope someone can help.
I have a 2.0 box configured as a DNS for our intranet. Said Debian box
has 2 NIC's in it, one for the public side (internet) and one for our
provate side (intranet.) I was wondering (mainly) how to
David Karlin wrote:
Where can I find smb2www? (I couldn't find it in
.../stable/main/binary-i386/packages or
.../stable/contrib/binary-i386/packages.)
It's in slink. The current version (980804-2) is somewhat broken wrt.
never versions of samba, but the maintainer told me that a new
David S. Zelinsky wrote:
Since I dual boot with Win95, I have my hardware clock set to local time.
I don't use Win95 much any more (read: my wife now uses Linux :), so I figure
I might as well change over to UTC, so Linux will handle daylight/standard
time correctly (I hope).
How do I make
Pere Camps wrote:
How do you disable the 'printer' port for remote connections if
you're using lprng?
Edit /etc/lpd.perms so it has a couple of lines saying sth. like this
# reject all connections from remote machines
ACCEPT SERVICE=X HOST=localhost
REJECT SERVICE=X
and make sure that
John Goerzen wrote:
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
They default to /etc/mail, except for aliases.db, which should be in /etc
(Debian Policy, 4.5).
I know what policy says, but this is not how it works. mailertable,
etc. are in /etc and not /etc/mail.
You can put them
Michael Beattie wrote:
On Tue, 27 Oct 1998, Petter Adsen wrote:
Michael Beattie writes:
| I want to be able to have some form of notification when a telnet
| connection is made to my linux box, most likely in the form of playing an
[snip]
You can probably do this with tcpwrappers. See the
Evan Van Dyke wrote:
Peter S Galbraith wrote:
If some user is capable of putting a fake `ls' in a random directory where
you might trip on it, that user is far more likely to put it in your ~/bin
directory! (Same privileges are required)
Just a thought.
Just make the . directory the
D'jinnie wrote:
I recently visited http://mysql.org (was trying to figure out whether I
should migrate to it). I haven't read their license - but there are a few
links there that suggested to me that it's not very free - because they
wanted money for it. Is it GPLed or how does it work?
MySQL
Rick Younie wrote:
If the file was corrupted by being transferred in ascii mode
instead of binary, you can fix it. There's a program in the
window's world called NOCRLF that will do it. Or if you have a
language or a good hex editor, replace the carriage return/line
feed pairs with a
Ed Cogburn wrote:
W. Paul Mills wrote:
1.3-27 is faulty. -26 or -28 should work.
Uh, I *am* running sysklogd 1.3-28 and my ppp logging is still broken.
Make sure that you have a line in /etc/syslog.conf that reads
local2.*-/var/log/ppp.log
and make sure that you
Phillip Neumann wrote:
[telnet to localhost not working]
I realize that after upgrading telnet program were not avaible so i try
to install telnet package apt installed it ok.
You need to install the telnetd package as well.
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Steve Lamb wrote:
Just a warning to anyone who is considering using the 2.1.x series since
2.2 is rumoured (I stress that word highly) to be out soon. If you use
IP-Masqing it appears that the 2.1.x kernels break ipfwadm. With a broken
ipfwadm it isn't possible to add/remove IP-Masqing
Bob Nielsen wrote:
The latest slink update to sysklogd 1.3-29 is SERIOUSLY broken. I
installed it and could no longer become root. If you have installed it,
you will need to boot with your rescue disk (you do have one, don't you?)
and either disable sysklogd (chmod -x /etc/init.d/sysklogd)
Michael Beattie wrote:
For some reason, ppp is not being logged anymore on my hamm/slink box..
anyone else having the same results? If not, how do I fix it? I believe I
upgraded ppp yesterday, as the last logged time was 2:55pm... does not
even have disconnect logged.
AFAICT, this is caused
Bob Eidt wrote:
I Have installed Linux 2.0 from floppy disk to a unit without any non-
linux partitions and have tried both using pppconfig and manually
editing the provider files as indicated in install.txt. FTP is the only
method to my disposal of enhancing my installation.
It would seem
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
I guess your home PC can't be acessed from work (ie having it online)
too bad...I need to set mine up (one of these days) to let me tell it
to conenct remotely.
xringd is your friend.
Just remember that if you have a dynamic IP you need a way to locate your
machine
Jan Krupa wrote:
I have installed netscape4.5b2 under debian2.0.
When I try to read debian-user mailing list archives
(e.g. from September, august) first
time it's O.K. but next times on the same month archives
netscape just hangs I have to kill it (the archives are very big).
When I
Pierfrancesco Caci wrote:
E.L. Meijer \(Eric\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
linux/errno.h is in libc6-dev. You also should not try to compile 2.0
Ok, reinstalled libc6-dev, I get these messages further on in the compilation:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/linux # make bzImage make modules make
Shaleh wrote:
Yes I did compile it w/ module support. I want to make it work, or find out
why it does not work. No hacks please (-:
Module support and module auto loading (kerneld support) are two different
settings that must both be set to Y in the kernel config for kerneld to
work.
me wrote:
and exits. fdisk /dev/hda1 won't give me a partition table because it's a
dos disk.
Yes, you use fdisk on the whole-disk devices such as /dev/hda and /dev/hdb
while you put file systems on the partition devices such as /dev/hda1 and
/dev/hda3.
thanks, yes, this works, and i can run
me wrote:
On 16 Oct 1998, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
scsi: 0 hosts.
scsi: detected total.[this is usual when it's working.]
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 hda5 hda6
[MS-DOS FS Ren 12, FAT 0, check=n, conv=b, uid=0, gid=0, umask=022, bmap]
[me=0x52, cs=0, #f=81, fs=0, fl
M.C. Vernon wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good one of these, please? Mainly for
scientific writing...
I can personally recommend
Helmut Kopka and Patrick W. Daly: A Guide to LaTeX 2e, Addison-Wesley.
It gives a thorough introduction to LaTeX and includes chapters on more
advanced topics
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 11:34:16PM +0300, shaul wrote:
(1) Linux accept up to 128MB for a single swap partition (2) There is
(was) a rule of thumb to have a swap size as twice as the RAM the
machine has (3) Having more RAM reduces the needs for swap.
ya konw, i'm a
M.C. Vernon wrote:
I also get similar messages for tetex-base and tetex-bin and can neither
install nor remove these packages.
Yes, I have problems like this as well... :(
tetex-bin included as an example. Shall I file a bug? and how do I fix
this?
Matthew
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Mirek Kwasniak wrote:
On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 06:27:30PM +, Rene Hojbjerg Larsen wrote:
Somehow my ifconfig has become extremely slow. I'm not sure exactly when
this happened, but it probably happened while upgrading to slink the other
day.
To give an example:
$ time /sbin/ifconfig
Torsten Hilbrich wrote:
On: 13 Oct 1998 18:27:30 GMT Rene Hojbjerg Larsen writes:
Somehow my ifconfig has become extremely slow. I'm not sure exactly
when this happened, but it probably happened while upgrading to
slink the other day.
To give an example:
$ time /sbin/ifconfig /dev
Somehow my ifconfig has become extremely slow. I'm not sure exactly when
this happened, but it probably happened while upgrading to slink the other
day.
To give an example:
$ time /sbin/ifconfig /dev/null
real0m6.788s
user0m4.450s
sys 0m1.590s
This used to take far less than a
I installed gimp 1.0.1 from slink and can't make it print directly to
the printer (through lpr). In the Print dialog, I can only choose to
print to a file--no printers are accessible. I suppose I need to tell
gimp which printer(s) I have but I can't find anything in the docs.
I have noticed,
Person, Rod wrote:
Anyway, is there a replacement for xdm. I know about kdm but I want to
use windowmaker so I don't want to take up all the space with kdebase
and libs and support...
Can I use kdm without all that or is there something else I can
use instead of xdm?
Perhaps you
Bruno Boettcher wrote:
i recently installed a debian system, and since then have a completely strange
system time: my clock reports:
09:13:43 yoda:~$ date
Thu Oct 8 09:14:23 MST 1998
and a correctly working host:
16:17:21 erm6:~$ date
Thu Oct 8 16:17:29 CEST 1998
that's a bit
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