Network Tangle

1999-08-25 Thread John D Smith
Hi thanks for reading this, I have just re installed the latest version on a Toshiba Laptop, with a CNET PCMCIA card in a slot, which gives me access, (Though Limited) to my Windows Network. The windows Network uses Wingate Proxy server to access the Internet. I have re installed a

Still Having .forward problems with EXIM

1999-08-25 Thread Kent Andersen
Anyone know why exim still deivers localy when a .forward file is in place and a valid email address is in it? Im about to pull my hair out! any ideas on what might be wrong would be greatly appreciated! Kent

Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM

1999-08-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi kent is your .forward file specified in your home directory of the outgoing mail server ?? otherwise the mail server you are pointing to will not see it.. have fun linuxing alvin Anyone know why exim still deivers localy when a .forward file is in place and a valid email address is in

[no subject]

1999-08-25 Thread david . cureton
Hi, I am trying to upgrade my debian 1.3 distribution to something a little more recent. I have installed the apt-get package developed for this distribution and intend to use this to upgrade. As I sit behind a proxyserver for http and ftp services I need to configure apt-get to download

Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Aug, Kent Andersen wrote about Still Having .forward problems with EXIM Anyone know why exim still deivers localy when a .forward file is in place and a valid email address is in it? Im about to pull my hair out! any ideas on what might be wrong would be greatly appreciated! Kent

RE: Network Tangle

1999-08-25 Thread david . cureton
I am not sure where you are setting ftp_proxy but I believe that apt-get has some mechanisim for using proxy servers in the /etc/apt.conf file. I am using the 1.3 distributation of apt-get and I cannot seem to find any information on this type of support. Maybe it is only in later releases of

Re: ipconfig eth0:1 down doesnt do what i think it would

1999-08-25 Thread meridian
well basically the eth0 ip is 10.0.0.1. the static ip is normally on ppp0 when connected to the isp. however i want the static ip available to the local network even when the connection to the isp and hence ppp0 goes down. this is already working find with ip-down or rc.local starting up eth0:1

Re: DVD on Linux?

1999-08-25 Thread Frankie Fisher
due to patents problem, it is impossible to have open-source software only DVD player. It is possible however to have: Hmmm. Does anybody know if these patents apply in the UK or Europe? It seems ridiculous that they are pushing to make this technology commonplace, when you have to pay

Re: Network Tangle

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
I have re installed a number of times trying to get access via the proxy to the local Australian Mirror site. ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/debian Two questions: 1. Can you ping ftp.au.debian.org? 2. Can you ping 192.111.32.2? If #1 is a no, but #2 is a yes, then you have a DNS problem. If both

Re: Netscape segfaulting, cont'd

1999-08-25 Thread Markus Fischer
Once upon a time (around Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:15:51AM -0500 i think) Jonathan Hayward told me : I got 4.5.1 from the Debian website, and it's segfaulting as well. Does Netscape just not like my system? I got the same problem after upgrading to potato. The only way (for me) to solve

Re: fvwm2 configuration

1999-08-25 Thread John Carline
E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hi all, I use fvwm2 as a window manager in slink. In /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc, the FvwmPager module is started with one desk, after .fvwm2/post.hook is read. I like to start FvwmPager with three desks, and do that in my post.hook file. As a result there are

fixing lpr printed margins

1999-08-25 Thread NatePuri
How can I change the margins for text documents that are printed via lpr. Right now I can only print 1/4 in margins. I would like the traditional 1' in margin. I would like to keep the 12pt font that it currently prints to. Thank you. -- NatePuri (natedawg) Certified Law Student McGeorge

Configuring PNP card *before* loading /etc/modules

1999-08-25 Thread Hwei Sheng TEOH
Hi! I'm running a system with a PNP network card that needs to be up before /etc/init.d/network executes. I need to execute `isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf' *before* /etc/modules is read by the kernel (since the network driver cannot do anything until isapnp configures the network card). So when is

diald and debian..

1999-08-25 Thread Michael Fox
hiya Anyone experienced problems with diald and debian.. is it possible that the paranoid stuff ran at system startup and the icmplogd will cause issues with diald? I have a friend whom is having problems.. any one with it working or had problems could you please email me. Thanks Michael

Re: ftp via proxy server, for dselect

1999-08-25 Thread Benjamin Low
I too have a proxy, and also had a no-go using ftp access w/ dselect/dpkg (slink). I found that if I used a http access pointing to the ftp site, all works well (provided the site allows http to their ftp site, as most debian sites seem to). e.g. here's my /etc/apt/sources.list: deb

ftp trouble - cannot chroot

1999-08-25 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I am having some trouble to chroot all the users when they ftp. Using the standard in.ftpd from netstd package, I created a file /etc/ftpchroot with one line: shao. But when I ftp as shao, I can log in properly, but ls shows up nothing. I then

Re: Need tips on using apt with src

1999-08-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Brian Servis wrote: The main problem with building the sources is that the debian source packages do not have any kind of dependencies like the binary packages do. So apt does not know that you need a certain -dev package to compile

m68k install problem

1999-08-25 Thread Adam Rieder
During the Configure Base System in the install process using Debian 2.1 for the Macintosh (Quadra 650) I am receiving an error... WRITE ERROR Error writing to /target/etc/fstab I can shell out and see and modify the /target/etc/fstab file. I'm about as new as they get in the Linux arena, so

considerations for kernal upgrade

1999-08-25 Thread zdrysdal
Hi i am running debian ver 1.2 which uses libc5. I need to upgrade to libc6 in order to install the latest smail package so that i can control relay spamming. Would i need to install a more recent version of debian so that the packages using libc5 will now run on libc6? Whats the best way for

Re: Configuring PNP card *before* loading /etc/modules

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Aug, Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote about Configuring PNP card *before* loading /etc/modules So when is /etc/modules read/executed?? Is it possible to arrange stuff in the right order so that things happen in exactly this order: (1) isapnp executes, (2) the network driver module loads (ie.

Help on libraries

1999-08-25 Thread Guilherme Balena Versiani
Hello all, How can I make the library_pic.a libraries found in Debian distribution? I am needing to do a smaller versions of some shared libraries for a boot/root disk. Thanks.

Re: DVD on Linux?

1999-08-25 Thread Frankie Fisher
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 05:42:30PM -0700, Brian Kidder wrote: Frankie Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think this means that it would be legal to write a software only decoder in the UK and (some of) Europe. It would, however, be illegal to use it in US, cos of it's shortsighted, biased

Re: fvwm2 configuration

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about Re: fvwm2 configuration E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: Hi all, I use fvwm2 as a window manager in slink. In /etc/X11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc, the FvwmPager module is started with one desk, after .fvwm2/post.hook is read. I like to start FvwmPager with

Re: DVD on Linux?

1999-08-25 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 01:14:44AM +0100, Frankie Fisher wrote: [snip snip] My other question still stands, does the fact that CD's and CD-players have a compact disc logo on mean that the hardware is patented and that sony gets lots of money for every CD sold? [sig snip] I heard sony does

Re: Configuring PNP card *before* loading /etc/modules

1999-08-25 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 09:25:16PM -0400, Hwei Sheng TEOH wrote: Hi! I'm running a system with a PNP network card that needs to be up before /etc/init.d/network executes. I need to execute `isapnp /etc/isapnp.conf' *before* /etc/modules is read by the kernel (since the network driver cannot

KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
I've decided to play around with KDE a little, but I've run into a problem. In adding programs to the panel, the icon I select is ignored and replaced with the plain ol KDE cog. I'm running potato, BTW. A search of the KDE list archives yielded two other potato users with the same problem.

more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
I have Debian 2.1 running on a P-133 with 32MB of RAM and a 6.4GB Western Digital IDE, but it is awful slow when I have a lot of stuff running, including a few Netscape Communicator web browsers. Specifically, it likes to keep me waiting while it stops and runs the hard disk in the middle of a

xterm-debain termcap?

1999-08-25 Thread Benjamin Low
Why is there a separate xterm-debian termcap entry? It is kind of annoying, as when I brint up a shell to another (non-debian) machine TERM is still set to 'xterm-debian', which of course the other box doesn't know about... Setting the XTerm.termName xresource to 'xterm' works around the

Re: xterm-debain termcap?

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Aug, Benjamin Low wrote about xterm-debain termcap? Why is there a separate xterm-debian termcap entry? It is kind of annoying, as when I brint up a shell to another (non-debian) machine TERM is still set to 'xterm-debian', which of course the other box doesn't know about...

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 24 Aug, Patrick Olson wrote about more RAM = more speed? I have Debian 2.1 running on a P-133 with 32MB of RAM and a 6.4GB Western Digital IDE, but it is awful slow when I have a lot of stuff running, including a few Netscape Communicator web browsers. Specifically, it likes to keep

Re: apache/lynx problem - this is driving me crazy...

1999-08-25 Thread André Bell
Probably should be www.one-click.com Look in /etc/lynx.cfg for a line that begins STARTFILE: and I think that will be the line you want to change. Beautiful!!! That was it! I couldn't figure out why apache would run without errors but lynx gave me errors everytime I tried starting it without a

Found it!!! (Re: apache/lynx problem - this is driving me crazy...)

1999-08-25 Thread André Bell
Alert! Unable to connect to remote host. lynx: can't startfile http://www/one-click.com I believe the error is the /www/one-click.com settings. This looks like an invalid http format. Unfortunately I cannot find the file which is controlling this. Any ideas which file is doing this? The

Re: DVD on Linux?

1999-08-25 Thread Brad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Frankie Fisher wrote: In my opinion, the US laws regarding software patents are wrong. The patent laws (as I understand them, and I am not an expert) vastly favour companies. I'd have to agree with you there... He cannot afford to

dselect behaving oddly - package not installed, but no err. msg.

1999-08-25 Thread Fam. Engelen
I do not understand this. Why isn't kanjidic installed? Not that I need this particular package, but this _should_ work, shouldn't it? I use slink, kernel 2.0.36 on a pentium-based system. (the below was cut-n-pasted from an xterm. I only changed the prompt.) # dselect install Get currently

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Seth R Arnold
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 09:21:48PM -0700, Patrick Olson wrote: I have Debian 2.1 running on a P-133 with 32MB of RAM and a 6.4GB Western Digital IDE, but it is awful slow when I have a lot of stuff running, including a few Netscape Communicator web browsers. Specifically, it Heh, netscape

Problems with tin

1999-08-25 Thread Vesa Kaihlavirta
When trying to post with tin, I get a error message: Invalid sender: dali@ ...although I've put this entry to the configuration menu : 65. Mail address[EMAIL PROTECTED] What's the matter? I'm using potato, leafnode and tin -r. -- Vesa Kaihlavirta [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CDRW 8100i help

1999-08-25 Thread Geocrawler.com
This message was sent from Geocrawler.com by Joakim Svensson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be sure to reply to that address. Hi all, (Before anyone gets upset I just want to say that I am on the list and cc is not needed. I just don't have access to my home system right now) I am wondering if anyone could

Java + PostgreSQL

1999-08-25 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have to write a small program like KOrganizer (but more simple), only to learn java+postgresql. I installed jdk1.2 from blackdown and come across with an example of a table in: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/usr/local/jdk1.2/demo/jfc/Table]$ ls [02:29am/08-25-99] JDBCAdapter.class

T1910 Toshiba laptop

1999-08-25 Thread alex aitkin
Problem - I have 123M of HDD to work with on my Toshiba 486 laptop- I was just going to install Linux on it, but my T1910 uses a .exe file to manipulate BIOS settings, and this file runs under MS-DOS. SO . . .will Linux allow access to BIOS settings some other way, OR, can I run MS-DOS emulation

Re: fvwm2 configuration

1999-08-25 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:37:35PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about Re: fvwm2 configuration E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: [ problems to get a pager with multiple desks in fvwm2 ] Probably the simplest way would be to copy the system.fvwm2rc into your

Java + Postgres

1999-08-25 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi all, I have to do a small aplication in Java that uses Postgres. It's like a KOrganizer but more simple. I made one with GTk+postgres. I found an example of Table + SQL in jdk1.2 demo dir with jdbc. Where I found info in JDBC+Postgres? If anyone can send me an example of

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Matus \fantomas\ Uhlar
- I have Debian 2.1 running on a P-133 with 32MB of RAM and a 6.4GB Western - Digital IDE, but it is awful slow when I have a lot of stuff running, - including a few Netscape Communicator web browsers. Specifically, it - likes to keep me waiting while it stops and runs the hard disk in the -

Re: [Debian] Multiport Ethernet boards?

1999-08-25 Thread Nico De Ranter
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Nico De Ranter wrote: : : Howdy, : : I believe somebody posted a message about this some time ago : but I couldn't find it in the archives (actualy I don't know : what to look for :-). I want to build a router using a PC : running Linux. Unfortunately there

teTeX and DWWW

1999-08-25 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! When I use DWWW to access the teTeX-Documentation, I can get through fine to http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=filelocation=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf while torres.gf1.internal is my Debian box. However, none of the links on that page work (Example:

Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server. There are three users on this system. My IP allows email addresses in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] uk, therefore allowing each user on my system to have their own email address. To log on and collect mail, the 'hostname' is given

Re: Still Having .forward problems with EXIM

1999-08-25 Thread Phillip Deackes
Kent Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know why exim still deivers localy when a .forward file is in place and a valid email address is in it? Do you have a line like this in your /etc/exim.conf? local_domains = scgf.gmx.net:localhost Once this has been set, the implication is that

Re: T1910 Toshiba laptop

1999-08-25 Thread Seth R Arnold
I would be awful suprised if dosemu would work. *maybe* the DEXE support in the newer kernels supports what you want, but I can't say. I would be suprised if it did work. I would think you need to keep a DOS partition around that you can boot to play with your bios. (or.. if you like to be

AWE64 Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Andrew Hodgson
I have a Creative Labs AWE64 (ISA PnP) card, and I'm having a bit of troublegetting it configured in Debian.I have re-compiled my kernal (2.0.36) to include the appropriate soundsupport, and I have also set up the pnptools (via pnpdump) to initialise thecard at boot.The problem seems to be

Re: AWE64 Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Marcin Kurc
You dont need to use isapnp to initialize AWE64. Just turn off pnp support in BIOS, and if you compile the support for it into kernel use values: * OSS sound modules (NEW) [...] * 100% Sound Blaster compatibles (SB16/32/64, ESS, Jazz16) support (NEW) (5) Sound Blaster IRQ Check from manual of

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread ICON ICON
Hi Patrick, Well two things might be causing your computer to run slow: 1- Applications like netscape and Staroffice need at least 64MB of RAM to minimize swap use and to speed up processing 2- Your processor is slow, and it is pentium I. Pentuim II has special ways of increasing its

Timed?

1999-08-25 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, I'm looking for timed in a debian package. Nothing is to be found by the search engine on the debian web site. So there seems to be none. Is there another way to get the time from a local machine that runs timed? Thanks for any hints -- Peter --

Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Andrew Hodgson
I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on the screen is... Downloading sequencer instructions... 419

Re: teTeX and DWWW

1999-08-25 Thread Jens Ritter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: Hi! When I use DWWW to access the teTeX-Documentation, I can get through fine to http://torres.gf1.internal/cgi-bin/dwww?type=filelocation=/mnt/main8/usr/doc/texmf while torres.gf1.internal is my Debian box. However, none of the links on that page

Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Hans van den Boogert
My Acer Travelmate 512T laptop (Celeron 366, 96 MB RAM), has a 4.6 GB IBM hard drive in it. I partitioned it as follows... /dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M) /dev/hda5 logical Fat32 (900M) /dev/hda6 logical Fat32 (800M) /dev/hda7 logical Linux (1000M) /dev/hda4 primary Linux ext2 (840M) /dev/hda3

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Jor-el
Phillip, Its seems to me that you havent read the manpage. Specifically, the sections about the '-m', the '-u', and the user authentication. Regards, Jor-el On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote: I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server. There are

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Andrew, On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 01:21:46PM +0100, Andrew Hodgson wrote: Anyone know if this SCSI adapter works with Debian? I am using an Adaptec 2940 U2W without any problems. The machine is running Slink and humming right along. There are some special 2940-boot disks around, since your

Re: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Andrei Ivanov
/dev/hda1 primary Fat32 (1000M) /dev/hda5 logical Fat32 (900M) /dev/hda6 logical Fat32 (800M) /dev/hda7 logical Linux (1000M) /dev/hda4 primary Linux ext2 (840M) /dev/hda3 primary Linux swap (100M) Seems ok, but you dont need 100M swap with 96M of Ram that you have already, unless you

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: AWE64 Problems

1999-08-25 Thread Ashley Clark
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I have re-compiled my kernal (2.0.36) to include the appropriate sound support, and I have also set up the pnptools (via pnpdump) to initialise the card at boot. You really should use modules for sound cards (especially plug and play ones). The

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Aug, Phillip Deackes wrote about Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail? I use currently use fetchmail to collect mail from my IP's POP server. There are three users on this system. My IP allows email addresses in the form [EMAIL PROTECTED] uk, therefore allowing each user on

Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
Hi all, Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. gpm works fine with it. X does not. I have tried every mouse type with it and the mouse cursor simply jumps to the top left corner of

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Fraser Campbell wrote: Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. gpm works fine with it. X does not. I have tried every

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: [ your line wrap doesn't ] : I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi Fraser, Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. which mouse-type did you choose for gpm? I assume you chose ps2. The same protocol should work with X11. Do not choose the

Re: Netscape

1999-08-25 Thread vw
Seems to me, the deal is you're lucky... Be Cool Vitux Error is human; complete disaster takes a computer -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: Ryan Chouinard [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sendt:24. august 1999 22:49 Til: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: recipient list not shown

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 25 Aug, Fraser Campbell wrote about Logitech Mouseman / X Hi all, Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. gpm works fine with it. X does not. I have tried every mouse

Re: Toshiba T1910

1999-08-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Aug 1999, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: alex aitkin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Toshiba T1910 Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 17:30:37 +1000 s9404086 Problem - I have 123M of HDD to work with on my Toshiba 486 laptop- s9404086 I was just going to install Linux on it, but my T1910 uses a .exe

Re: fixing lpr printed margins

1999-08-25 Thread Michael E. Touloumtzis
On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 06:13:03PM -0700, NatePuri wrote: How can I change the margins for text documents that are printed via lpr. Right now I can only print 1/4 in margins. I would like the traditional 1' in margin. I would like to keep the 12pt font that it currently prints to. You

Re: Netscape

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Starkes
Ryan Chouinard wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? I never had a problem either, until I decided

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread Kent West
Andrew Hodgson wrote: I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on the screen is... Downloading sequencer

Re: Netscape

1999-08-25 Thread Kent West
Greg Starkes wrote: Ryan Chouinard wrote: I always hear people complain about Netscape crashing, but I never had that problem, except in Windows. But then, everything crashes in Windows. Netscape works fine for me in RH, Slackware, and now Debian. What's the deal? I never had a

Hewlett Packard Colorado 5Gb TAPE

1999-08-25 Thread Nikolay Hristov
hi there is there any hope to run Hewlett Packard Colorado 5Gb TAPE under Debian ?

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 08:47:48AM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: boot, 'Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.' Yes, I see this on bootup and the mouse does work with gpm so I think the problem is related to X only. Protocol MouseMan Tried that and everything else I could find. Someone suggested

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
Thanks for the other info on RAM, it will be very useful. Add a second hard drive on the second ide channel(hdc) It is good to have a swap partition on a different controller channel with each partition having equal priority. The kernel will use the partition which will provide the best

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Evan Van Dyke
Fraser Campbell wrote: Tried that and everything else I could find. Someone suggested I try MouseManPlusPS/2 but this had the same effect ... mouse jitters around the screen and ends in top left corner. As an experiment I plugged on a Microsoft PS/2 mouse and this does the same as the

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread Patrick Olson
Thanks for the reply. In your case of course, more memory would show *huge* speed increases. It looks like another 32 megs would stop the immediate swapping problem. If you want to run StarOffice, I imagine another 16 to 32 megs above that is required. I don't have star office installed

Re: Adaptec AHA-2940

1999-08-25 Thread David Teague
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Andrew Hodgson wrote: I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI adapter. The last message on the screen is... Downloading

Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Vence
What about: root 1.5GB var 2 usr 2 home 2.256 swap .256 (128 MB ram) ? TIA -- Greg.

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Fraser Campbell
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:10:09AM -0400, Evan Van Dyke wrote: Do you have gpm and X running at the same time? That's known to cause problems... you might try disabling gpm Nope, as I said in my original email, gpm works correctly with any of the PS/2 mouses I have tried. X does not work

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V99 #1460

1999-08-25 Thread graham . lillico
Well mine work but I have a 2940-AU wether that makes a difference i don't know. Regards Graham I have just tried to install Debian on a machine with an Adaptec AHA 2940 SCSI adapter. When I run install from DOS (or boot from the rescue floppy) the machine hangs after detecting the SCSI

Re: Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:19:02AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: What about: root 1.5GB var 2 usr 2 home 2.256 swap .256 (128 MB ram) root is MUCH too big. It should be as small as possible (unless the only partition is the rootpart.) so that it will be hard to crash (the

Re: Logitech Mouseman / X

1999-08-25 Thread Chanop Silpa-Anan
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 09:18:11AM -0400, Fraser Campbell wrote: Hi all, Just got a new computer and cannot get the mouse to work with X no matter what I try. The mouse is 3 buttons, PS/2 and labeled as a Logitech Mouseman. I've been using MouseMan MousePort Version with ps/2 protocol

strange bug in useradd in potato ?!?

1999-08-25 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All i'm running potato and just tried to upgrated telnetd to 0.14-1 and this is what i got: Setting up telnetd (0.14-1) ... adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists. Adding system user telnetd... Adding new group telnetd (101). Adding new user telnetd (101) with group

Re: Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Marcin Owsiany
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:39:49AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: But root would contain what is not in var, usr, and home. would 500MB be enough for that? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda1 20M 17M 1.8M 90% /

Re: Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:19:02AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: What about: root 1.5GB var 2 usr 2 home 2.256 swap .256 (128 MB ram) root is MUCH too big. /var is kind of big as well, unless you're planning on putting a

Re: Collecting mail for other users with fetchmail?

1999-08-25 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How can I ensure that mail for another user on my system gets into the correct mailbox? You could try to fetch it via fetchmail like you already do and then sort it according the To:-header in the recipient´s mailbox via procmail (try ´man procmail´

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-25 Thread Gerald . Preissler
Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Has anyone managed to get programs added to their panel sucessfully (with their specified icons)? If so, please share, and I'll pass it along to the other two unfortunate souls and the KDE list. How did you install KDE? I grabed the sources from a mirror

Re: ipconfig eth0:1 down doesnt do what i think it would

1999-08-25 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Looks like it's a bug. You can use the method suggested in this article which was posted to comp.os.linux.networking: Deja.com: Re: ?:Kernel V2.2.-IP Alias-eth0:0 Is Invisible To 'ifconfig? Just do: ifconfig eth0:1 0.0.0.0 Hopefully this won't cause and adverse behavior. OTOH perhaps the

Re: Hewlett Packard Colorado 5Gb TAPE

1999-08-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
It should work if you enable the following in your kernel: Enhanced IDE/MFM/RLL disk/cdrom/tape/floppy support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE) [Y/n/?] Include IDE/ATAPI TAPE support (CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDETAPE) [N/y/?] On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 04:16:58PM +0300, Nikolay Hristov wrote: hi there is there

Re: Another Partition spacing...

1999-08-25 Thread Greg Vence
Thanx I think I'll do: root 256M swap 256M var 1G usr 3G home 3.5G Thanx again -- Greg. Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Marcin Owsiany wrote: On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 11:19:02AM -0400, Greg Vence wrote: What about: root 1.5GB var 2 usr

RE: Is this smart HD partitioning?

1999-08-25 Thread Hans van den Boogert
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 locking up. I had this problem. I would split /dev/hda7 and

Re: fvwm2 configuration

1999-08-25 Thread d1temp
On 25 Aug, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: On Tue, Aug 24, 1999 at 10:37:35PM -0500, Brian Servis wrote: *- On 25 Aug, John Carline wrote about Re: fvwm2 configuration E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: [ problems to get a pager with multiple desks in fvwm2 ] Yup, I did not want to break that

Re: KDE question about panel icons

1999-08-25 Thread Mark Wagnon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How did you install KDE? I grabed the sources from a mirror of ftp.kde.org and compiled them myself, and I can add icons to my panel without problems. I am using slink, though. I installed from debs I picked up from http://kde.tdyc.com. I figured out a way to get it

hardware...

1999-08-25 Thread Don Custer
To the good folks at Debian... I have two short questions which I hope can be answered with two short answers. I failed to find pertaining answers in the FAQs. 1. I am going to buy a new computer (to replace my 1991 dinosaur). I want it to be powered by Debian Linux. Are there any particular

smail delays messages

1999-08-25 Thread Debian Mail
I use apt-get to keep my system up to date. Suddenly, smail shows an annoying behaviour: When mail for local users arrives, it is stored in /var/spool/smail/input and only delivered to /var/spool/mail the next time smail runs through the queue (about 10 to 15 minutes later). Any idea why smail

Re: more RAM = more speed?

1999-08-25 Thread William T Wilson
On Tue, 24 Aug 1999, Seth R Arnold wrote: Heh, netscape is a bit of a memory hog. After running it for a few days, I have seen it eating more than 60megs -- even with only one window open. I understand that calls to free the memory don't always make the OS actually reclaim it -- which makes

autoconf: #define foo(b) b ## bar: space between foo(b)

1999-08-25 Thread joost witteveen
If I put in my configure.in: AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(foo(a), bar a) then in the created config.h (or on the gcc commandline) I get: #define foo (a) bar a ^space This doesn't work, I need to have: #define foo(a) bar a At the moment I `solve' this by doing: sed -e 's/ *(/(/'

Re: strange bug in useradd in potato ?!?

1999-08-25 Thread Ashley Clark
Quoting Oleg Krivosheev [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, All i'm running potato and just tried to upgrated telnetd to 0.14-1 and this is what i got: Setting up telnetd (0.14-1) ... adduser: Warning: The home dir you specified already exists. Adding system user telnetd... Adding new group telnetd

Configuring printer (HP 870Cxi)

1999-08-25 Thread
Hi to all I'm using Debian Potato and, I must say, it's wonderful, even if it's unstable (sometimes WindowMaker 0.6 freezes, and sometimes the entire system crashes with strange errors). However a big problem I'm having is about printing. I'm using an HP Deskjet 870Cxi printer, I configured

apt-get KDE?

1999-08-25 Thread B. Szyszka
Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to apt-get KDE. I'm having trouble finding that. -- Bart Szyszka [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:4982727 B Grafyx http://www.bgrafyx.com L.J.R. Engineering http://www.ljreng.com PHP Interest Group http://www.gigabee.com/pig/

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