startx

1999-01-06 Thread dcharro
Hola Tengo un problema para arrancar las Xwindows. Cuando ejecuto startx me sale el siguiente mensaje X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed Acabo de instalar la debian2.0 (la de la revista LA). He configurado las X con el XF86Setup y consigo llegar al final. Me da el mensaje de que todo esta

Re: startx

1999-01-06 Thread Juan Pablo Rosas Duran
Hola Hola: Tengo un problema para arrancar las Xwindows. Cuando ejecuto startx me sale el siguiente mensaje X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed Acabo de instalar la debian2.0 (la de la revista LA). He configurado las X con el XF86Setup y consigo llegar al final. Me da el mensaje de

Impresionante

1999-01-06 Thread dcharro
¡AAAh! 6 de enero. Dia de reyes. FIESTA por todas partes. 20:10 horas Escribo a la lista con un problema sobre startx 20:17 horas YA HE RECIBIDO UNA SOLUCION. IMPRESIONANTE. 7 minutos. Gracias

Re: startx

1999-01-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 07:17:12PM +, Juan Pablo Rosas Duran wrote: Tengo un problema para arrancar las Xwindows. Cuando ejecuto startx me sale el siguiente mensaje X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/XF86_NONE failed A mi me sucedio lo mismo, y lo que hice fue crear una liga simbolica entre

Re: My PC's internal (built-in) speaker.

1999-01-06 Thread Phillip Neumann
Hello, Im been trying to use pcspeaker too. Without luck... creating /dev/pcspeaker with MAKEDEV did work either (kernel 2.1.128). I found a utility that play with tha speaker. I use it as a phone ringer... bye, On Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:49:58 shaul wrote: I suspect that my PC's internal

Re: Backspace key wont work RESPOND ASAP!

1999-01-06 Thread Strid3r
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 06:51:14PM -0500, AJ wrote: Ok.. i just used apt-get -f upgrade to upgrade about 300 libraries.. and now when i try to bakcspace (backspace) it wont work.. is there anything wrong with my keyboard layout or something? or is it terminal type or is it xterm? or

Re: cdrom

1999-01-06 Thread ktb
I didn't see this one come through, even though I have recieved others. Sorry if it's a repost. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does this directory (/mnt/cdrom) exist? Make it, put that line back in /etc/fstab and try again. No it didn't exist I used mkdir /mnt/cdrom as root and in

netscape, slink, bus error

1999-01-06 Thread Rick Venable
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler wrote: I just installed Netscape 3.04 with the Debian installer package, and I always get a bus error, when trying to start netscape. :( On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: It's a libc problem. Go to

Re: Backspace key wont work RESPOND ASAP

1999-01-06 Thread Raghavendra Bhat
Hello AJ: or is it terminal type or is it xterm? or windowmaker?? I gather from what U have said that U R running WindowMaker Xwm. I request you to visit a wonderful site on the Keyboarding problems at http://www.ibbnet.nl/~anne/keyboard.html (Tnx toa similar fix given to me by our fellow

Re: MP3 to WAV converter???

1999-01-06 Thread Pere Camps
Daniel, mpg123 -b 1 -s $1 | sox -t raw -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - $2 That's a pretty impressive command line, but I just found out that it could be done with just 'amp -w mp3name'. Mmmm does amp convert an 112 kb/sec mp3 to the standard 44100/16bit? And anyway, I'm used to

Re: cdrom

1999-01-06 Thread Strid3r
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 07:01:26PM +, ktb wrote: My CD's have always worked with my speakers while in windows. I assume the volume is OK if I hear a error beep. I have nerver come across a reference as to how to check the volume setting in Linux. Where do I access that? Thanks, Kent

Re: netscape, slink, bus error

1999-01-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Rick Venable wrote: I've had a very frustrating couple of weeks trying to get netscape working under slink, without any success. Basically, I get a 'locale' error message, the License dialog pops up, and a few seconds after I click on

Quantum Bigfoot

1999-01-06 Thread Dale Kemp
Debian Linux 2.0.34 will not install on Quantum Bigfoot 8Gb. I swaped it for a Quantum Fireball 5Gb which works fine, I suspect all the Fireball disks work just as well (The 7.XGb is fine too). I highly recommend the Fireball disks, they are fast, low noise, and small. I also see that there are

Re: cdrom

1999-01-06 Thread ktb
Strid3r wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 07:01:26PM +, ktb wrote: My CD's have always worked with my speakers while in windows. I assume the volume is OK if I hear a error beep. I have nerver come across a reference as to how to check the volume setting in Linux. Where do I

Re: cdrom

1999-01-06 Thread ktb
Rahsheen Porter wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 08:24:59PM +, ktb wrote: Strid3r wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 07:01:26PM +, ktb wrote: My CD's have always worked with my speakers while in windows. I assume the volume is OK if I hear a error beep. I have nerver

Re: X toolkit warning

1999-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 02:31:28PM -0200, Mário Olímpio de Menezes wrote: I'm running a program (cantata from Khoros www.khoral.com) and every time I access some dialogs I get a dialog warning box with a message like this: Warning: X Toolkit Warning: Actions not found:

Re: cdrom

1999-01-06 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 08:35:26PM +, ktb wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 08:24:59PM +, ktb wrote: This is what I get when I tried both programs: $ xmixer xmixer: Can't open /dev/mixer: Operation not supported by device $ aumix aumix: error opening /dev/mixer. Does that device

Re: Problems with X

1999-01-06 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 01:30:29PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I had X running fine with one little problem before getting a Monster 3D II card a little while back. One small problem was that I have xdm kick up two X windows. Well, about five minutes after boot, I would get kicked over to the

What is this in my mailbox??

1999-01-06 Thread William Flores
I am getting this in my POP mail..and it keeps try to show up in my remailer program..what is it..and why does it keep popping up??? I don't quite understand it. It doesn't show up when I enter PINE...but whenI try to do POP mail it does.. Thanks in advance for any help. William Flores

Re: Backspace key wont work RESPOND ASAP!

1999-01-06 Thread AJ
i figured it out.. someone on #debian said that the x junk was totally redone and there we libraries missing.. so i fixed it.. thanx anyway, AJ Strid3r wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 06:51:14PM -0500, AJ wrote: Ok.. i just used apt-get -f upgrade to upgrade about 300 libraries.. and now

[Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-06 Thread Tim Heuser
---BeginMessage--- (please excuse the non-use of Linux vocabulary) I've got Windows 98 running on an 840 meg drive (c:) and drive d: as one big 6 gig drive to be divided up shortly. I had a problem trying to load linux at the beginning of the d: drive and gave up for now needing the computer for

Re: cdrom

1999-01-06 Thread ktb
Rahsheen Porter wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 08:35:26PM +, ktb wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 08:24:59PM +, ktb wrote: This is what I get when I tried both programs: $ xmixer xmixer: Can't open /dev/mixer: Operation not supported by device $ aumix aumix: error opening

Re: cdrom

1999-01-06 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 09:40:47PM +, ktb wrote: Rahsheen Porter wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 08:35:26PM +, ktb wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 08:24:59PM +, ktb wrote: This is what I get when I tried both programs: $ xmixer xmixer: Can't open /dev/mixer:

Re: Xircom Network Adapter

1999-01-06 Thread Adam Shand
it depends which version. the standard pcmcia package has supported the 10baseT/modem combo card for a year and a half or so. some of the newer xircom cards are still unsupported i believe. check the docs. adam. On Mon, 4 Jan 1999, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: Does debian support

Re: What is this in my mailbox??

1999-01-06 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 09:36:38PM -0600, William Flores wrote: I am getting this in my POP mail..and it keeps try to show up in my remailer program..what is it..and why does it keep popping up??? I don't quite understand it. It doesn't show up when I enter PINE...but whenI try to do

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-06 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 08:43:40PM -0700, Tim Heuser wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 20:38:10 -0700 From: Tim Heuser [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Installing debian with Win98

Re: What is this in my mailbox??

1999-01-06 Thread Frank Smith
That message is generated by an IMAP mail server. It lets the IMAP server keep track of which messages are already read (an IMAP mail server lets you access your mail from more than place keeping all the folders, read mail, etc. on the server. Check www.imap.org for features). The IMAP-aware

installing Debian and WinNT 4.0

1999-01-06 Thread Tom Lovie
I'm trying to make a machine dual boot (I hate WinNT but I need it while I port some software to Linux) First, my hardware is not easy since I have a 12.9 GB disk, which I'd like to partition and have hold both operating systems. The problem that I'm facing is that I installed NT, but when I

How can I set Linux up as a File Server?

1999-01-06 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All, I've got a Linux box up and running, and have no problems with it (Thank God!). I have one more thing I need to do before I will be satisfied... How can I set Linux (Debian2.0) up as a file server? I have three PC's on the network... 1. WinNT4 2. Win98 3. Linux I need linux to

Re: bootlog on debian 2.0 missing in /var/log/messages

1999-01-06 Thread Jameson Burt
Oz Dror wrote: Prior to the debian 2.0 installation I used to have a detail boot log on /usr/adm/messages. Where is it on the 2.0 version. the /var/log/messages is very abbreviated the /var/log/syslog is also very abbreviated ditto. After upgrading to 2.0, I now see the nice syslog entries MARK

RE: Installing Debian and WinNT4.0

1999-01-06 Thread Brant Wells
Hey Tom! How are you? I got NT Linux to work like this: Boot up linux, and log in as Root get to a command prompt when you have, type the following: dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/fd0/lnxboot.sec bs=512 replace /dev/hda2 with the boot partition for linux (usually hda2, I think...) Set

Re: [OFF-TOPIC] qvirtual option in fetchmail

1999-01-06 Thread Carey Evans
Richard Alhama [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've solved it, fetchmail fetches but, it gets delivered to the ppp-outgoing queue. In ~alias/pppdir/ to be exact. Not on ~/Mailbox :-( You probably haven't put localhost in locals. If this doesn't work, post your rcpthosts, locals and the header

Re: How can I set Linux up as a File Server?

1999-01-06 Thread Carey Evans
Brant Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've got a Linux box up and running, and have no problems with it (Thank God!). I have one more thing I need to do before I will be satisfied... How can I set Linux (Debian2.0) up as a file server? I have three PC's on the network... 1. WinNT4 2.

Re: netscape, slink, bus error

1999-01-06 Thread Ed Cogburn
Rick Venable wrote: Since I've been having a similar bus error with netscape (4.06, 4.07, 4.08, 4.5) I tried the libs supplied via the above URL-- it didn't work. I tried the unsupported libc6 version of 4.08 as well-- it didn't work. I also tried to get netscape via the slink distro at

Re: Backspace key wont work RESPOND ASAP!

1999-01-06 Thread Daniel Elenius
AJ writes: Ok.. i just used apt-get -f upgrade to upgrade about 300 libraries.. and now when i try to bakcspace (backspace) it wont work.. is there anything wrong with my keyboard layout or something? or is it terminal type or is it xterm? or windowmaker?? What programs has it stopped working

Re: Network problems (Solved)

1999-01-06 Thread crown victoria
Hi: I would like to thank for all the kind responses and generous assistance I have received on my problem regarding setting the network. During the installation, I was asked to set the network drivers. Initially, I thought I tried all of the 3COM drivers, and had an impression that at least

Printer filter for Lexmark 1020

1999-01-06 Thread Jamie Hart
Hi, Does anyone have a filter for this printer (Lexmark 1020)? The magicfilter package doesn't support it although I can get basic (mono/text) output using any of the deskjet filters. I know that this is a pretty cheap and nasty printer, but it serves my needs :^) Thanks for any help. Jamie

Background(color)

1999-01-06 Thread CUNO
Hello, Can I change the background(color) of the xdm login screen. Thanx Cuno

Re: Windoze printer

1999-01-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Martin Schulze wrote: Martin Saturka wrote: Hello. Does anybody know, whether is some way to make work printer Oki OKIPAGE 4w plus under Linux. That printer is 'Win printer'. I heard something about rendering by ghostscript, but I can find really nothing, how to do

Re: Network setup problems

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
Stephen A. Witt wrote: I've been looking at the info you provided and I don't think there is enough to troubleshoot your problem. What are the IP addresses/netmasks of your machine(s)? How is your network connected together (number of ethernet segments, IP address/netmask assigned to each

Re: Network setup problems

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John Stevenson writes: I am running Apache as a web server and everything runs fine when I am attached to my home LAN, using my own machine as the gateway. Why do you need a gateway at all for your home LAN? I have absoultely no idea, but it works... -- John

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
Tim Heuser wrote: I've got Windows 98 running on an 840 meg drive (c:) and drive d: as one big 6 gig drive to be divided up shortly. I had a problem trying to load linux at the beginning of the d: drive and gave up for now needing the computer for other things. I am about ready to try

Festival/mpg123?

1999-01-06 Thread Gossamer
I have both Festival (for speech synth) and mpg123 (to play .mp3s) running on this box. At the moment, if Festival tries to say something while an mp3 is playing, it dies with an error. Is there any way to set things so that festival has precedence, and somehow makes the mp3 'pause' while it

XWP - NOT!

1999-01-06 Thread James R. Lunsford
Hello all. I installed Wordperfect 8 into /usr/local/wp8 and there's no xwp file to be found anywhere on my system. The only thing that was really out of the ordinary in my installation was that it didn't run under X. I got some kind of error message and it ran in an xterm window. Anyone have

Re: bootlog on debian 2.0 missing in /var/log/messages

1999-01-06 Thread Benno Overeinder
Where is it on the 2.0 version. the /var/log/messages is very abbreviated the /var/log/syslog is also very abbreviated ditto. [...] I suspect that a line must now be missing from some /etc/init.d/* file, eg, klogd -o -f /var/log/messages However, such a line would need to be early in

Re: XWP - NOT!

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
This sounds like an X windows security problem. If you login and run X as one user, then open an Xterm and su to another user, that second user cannot run any graphical applications in X for security reasons. So if you loged in and ran X as your normal user account (as you should) then did su to

Connection to ISP

1999-01-06 Thread Johann Spies
Hallo, My ISP has installed a new server with 56.6K lines. My efforts to get a successful connection so far has failed and I will appreciate some help. The server is running on NT (4 I think) and I think he is using software with the name Radius. I have a Zoltrix VSP56e external modem on a

Help

1999-01-06 Thread Edmund Adjei
I am a foreign student in Germany, and have decided on buying the Debian destribution of the Linux OS. I want to first know if there is a latest version of the Debian package, and whether my Graphik card SiS 6326 would be supported. Counting on your cooperation. Edmund Adjei

[PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER: Mail failure]

1999-01-06 Thread Rahsheen Porter
Why do I keep getting this almost everytime I put something on one of the debian mailing lists? - Forwarded message from PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Rahsheen Porter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Mail

Re: [PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER: Mail failure]

1999-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 06:48:25 -0500, Rahsheen Porter wrote: Why do I keep getting this almost everytime I put something on one of the debian mailing lists? Because the mail transfer system of a subscriber is broken (it should not report back to the From: address of a message with Priority:

Re: Help

1999-01-06 Thread John Stevenson
Edmund Adjei wrote: I am a foreign student in Germany, and have decided on buying the Debian destribution of the Linux OS. I want to first know if there is a latest version of the Debian package, and whether my Graphik card SiS 6326 would be supported. Can you give more details about your

Re: Backspace key wont work RESPOND ASAP!

1999-01-06 Thread LeRoy D. Cressy
Hi AJ, Why not try changing your terminal type to something like vt100 with the command: TERM=vt100 Also find out what the current value for TERM is before changing its value. echo $TERM AEleen Frisch in her book describes a fix for a corrupted back space key if it is showing either ^h or

Re: debian nubee-man pages dont work?

1999-01-06 Thread Blair Kelly
You need to install the debian man package before you can use the man pages. You can get the man package from ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/hamm/main/binary-i386/ See the Packages file and search on Packages: man. You install by 'dpkg -i [packagename].deb. Blair rnc wrote: Any tips for

Re: Help

1999-01-06 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 14:05:14 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: Edmund Adjei wrote: destribution of the Linux OS. I want to first know if there is a latest version of the Debian package, and whether my Graphik card SiS 6326 would be supported. Can you give more details about your video

Re: Modem stopped working when I upgraded to hamm

1999-01-06 Thread Jim Lynch
- Received message begins Here - - Received message begins Here - Tonight I'm going to install bo from Cd and make sure the modem still works. If it does then I'll install things one at a time and see what happens. OK, here's the story. I removed

Re: Problems with X

1999-01-06 Thread Robert Rati
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Jan 04, 1999 at 01:30:29PM -0500, Robert Rati wrote: I had X running fine with one little problem before getting a Monster 3D II card a little while back. One small problem was that I have xdm kick up two X windows. Well, about five

Re: installing Debian and WinNT 4.0

1999-01-06 Thread Ian Keith Setford
Yo- I have to use NT for work sometimes so I boot into it when I have to print Office97 stuff and to use Photoshop 5. Anyways, here is my lilo.conf, maybe it will help you. ##/etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-06 Thread Henning Makholm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:03:47 -0800 (PST), you wrote: apt-get install exim No, you didn't. You used the debian package; I am trying to get rid of smail because I have a self-built exim. Then how about installing the package

Re: Upgrading

1999-01-06 Thread Henning Makholm
Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Libc5 should still be installed (or can easily be reinstalled) after the upgrade. It should coexist with libc6 without any problems. Actually one *needs* to keep it installed - or at least the Hamm CD I used to upgrade did not seem to contain a libc6

Re: installing Debian and WinNT 4.0

1999-01-06 Thread Richard Alhama
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, Tom Lovie wrote: Has anybody done a successful install of a dual boot machine with NT and Debian? I read the mini-howto on NT-loader, but I don't like it that much, since I have to transfer that LILO boot sector file across filesystems every time that I rebuild the

Re: News reading

1999-01-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, Mark Brown wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 05:58:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install news reader on my computer. I would like to be able to fetch news while online and then read them and answer while offline. What do I need ? Cnews ?

Re: configuring serial port

1999-01-06 Thread Brandon Mitchell
I would guess either a plug-n-play modem or a winmodem. If it's p-n-p, there is a solution. But there is no solution for winmodems. You'll get the best help from the list for this problem, but you may want to let them know what kind of modem you have and everything you can get out of the

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
HM == Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: HM [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Haber) writes: On Mon, 4 Jan 1999 16:03:47 -0800 (PST), you wrote: apt-get install exim No, you didn't. You used the debian package; I am trying to get rid of smail because I have a self-built

Inserting mod_perl into apache

1999-01-06 Thread Ryszard Lach
Hi! Could someone tell me in few words, how to build apache*.deb with mod_perl support? I have mod_perl-1.16_02, apache packet source files (apache_1.3.0-5.dsc, apache_1.3.0-5.tar.gz and apache_1.3.0-5.diff). I unpacked mod_perl, apache (using dpkg-source -x), and... what now? I've been trying

Re: bootlog on debian 2.0 missing in /var/log/messages

1999-01-06 Thread David Coe
I had that problem a few years ago on a slackware system; it was caused by not having my host name (unqualified) in the first entry in /etc/hosts; once I made sure that record was first, the boot messages appeared again. Don't know if that's still true, but might be worth a check. (I found that

Re: configuring serial port

1999-01-06 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
The 16450 has no FIFO buffer, so there exists danger of transmission overrun (particularly at higher baude rates). It may be usefull to change the interrupts priority with irqtune (available in hwtools package: hwtools: /usr/lib/hwtools/irqtune ). Giving the highest priority for UART's irq may

Re: What is this in my mailbox??

1999-01-06 Thread nathan_vegdahl
I am getting this in my POP mail..and it keeps try to show up in my remailer program..what is it..and why does it keep popping up??? I don't quite understand it. It doesn't show up when I enter PINE...but when I try to do POP mail it does.. It's from your mail servers mail-daemon.

Re: Background(color)

1999-01-06 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:16:05AM +0100, CUNO wrote: Hello, Can I change the background(color) of the xdm login screen. I think you can pretty much do whatever the hell you want to xdm. Swiped from #e on efnet: marjaana Info on configuring xdm - http://torment.ntr.net/xdm/ marjaana

Re: [PERTAMINA/PIMPD/POSTMASTER: Mail failure]

1999-01-06 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 01:16:29PM +0100, J.H.M. Dassen wrote: On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 06:48:25 -0500, Rahsheen Porter wrote: Why do I keep getting this almost everytime I put something on one of the debian mailing lists? Because the mail transfer system of a subscriber is broken (it

Re: Inserting mod_perl into apache

1999-01-06 Thread Rahsheen Porter
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 04:20:06PM +0100, Ryszard Lach wrote: Hi! Could someone tell me in few words, how to build apache*.deb with mod_perl support? I have mod_perl-1.16_02, apache packet source files (apache_1.3.0-5.dsc, apache_1.3.0-5.tar.gz and apache_1.3.0-5.diff). I unpacked

Re: Background(color)

1999-01-06 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:16:05AM +0100, CUNO wrote: Hello, Can I change the background(color) of the xdm login screen. I think you can pretty much do whatever the hell you want to xdm. Swiped from #e on efnet: marjaana Info on configuring xdm - http://torment.ntr.net/xdm/

Re: News reading

1999-01-06 Thread Laurent PICOULEAU
On Tue, 05 Jan, 1999 à 05:58:42PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install news reader on my computer. I would like to be able to fetch news while online and then read them and answer while offline. What do I need ? Cnews ? Is there any good documentation about it ? I didn't

installing cd-rom device driver

1999-01-06 Thread per_adua32
Hello All, I am attempting to install Debian Linux and have got stuck.Before I began I read the installation F.A.Q.But it's section on installing the device drivers is extremly small. My problem started in the install device driver section: CD-ROM: I choose : ”cd-rom – common routines for

ghostscript/view

1999-01-06 Thread Walter Kotorynski
I would appreciate some help from anyone experienced in running gs-Aladdin as user. Running gv gives message Exec of gs failed: Not a directory and Dismiss just leaves the program running until manual intervention. setuid.Debian suggests chmod u+s /usr/bin/gs which doesn't help. setuid.Debian

mounting a sunos filesystem?

1999-01-06 Thread Will Lowe
I've got a SCSI disk with a solaris 4.1.4 filesystem on it. Is there any way I can get linux to mount this? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Toshiba Kernel Compile

1999-01-06 Thread Mike Deal
Does anybody know where I can get the .config for the toshiba kernel that is on the debian 2.0 cd? I need to know what options to compile in to keep this toshiba 220cds from going into a kernel reboot cycle. --- Mike Deal - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.zonenet.net / www.northwestextreme.com The

RE:LD_LIBRARY_PATH and andrew

1999-01-06 Thread John Greer
I installed the Andrew word processor on my linux box last night and I followed the INSTALL instructions that said if I was not installing into /usr/local/andrew I would need to define the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. I did this in my .bash_profile and it works if I run Andrew first after I log in

Re: Toshiba Kernel Compile

1999-01-06 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, Mike! You may need to compile zImage, rather than bzImage. It's one of options in 'make-kpkg'. Check email from Manoj: http://debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9812/msg00364.html Does anybody know where I can get the .config for the toshiba kernel that is on the debian 2.0 cd? I

Re: [Fwd: Installing debian with Win98]

1999-01-06 Thread Harrison, Shawn
I've managed to get Debian running with Win95 on my home machine. Here's how I did it. First, I used the Debian installer to partition the drive. This, of course, means that everything on the drive is wiped out. It sounds like, since you have two drives, you can handle doing this. Using the

Strange behaviour from Xemacs/VM

1999-01-06 Thread Daniel Elenius
I compiled my own Xemacs a while ago (and got a lot of good help doing it from this list), but it turned out my xemacs does strange things when I send mail. I got the mail below back when I sent it to the list. But it got to the list anyway. It's very annoying to get error messages containing the

using fmirror, mirroring files by size

1999-01-06 Thread Frankie
fmirror can, according to the documentation, choose which files to mirror according to their size. I have read the man-page and the files in /usr/doc and it is not clear to me how to do this. can anyone help? thanks very much, frankie

Re: Festival/mpg123?

1999-01-06 Thread Daniel Elenius
Gossamer writes: I have both Festival (for speech synth) and mpg123 (to play .mp3s) running on this box. At the moment, if Festival tries to say something while an mp3 is playing, it dies with an error. Is there any way to set things so that festival has precedence, and somehow makes the mp3

Re: Background(color)

1999-01-06 Thread Mike Touloumtzis
On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 09:16:05AM +0100, CUNO wrote: Hello, Can I change the background(color) of the xdm login screen. Thanx Cuno Look at the files in /etc/X11/xdm/, especially 'Xreset' and 'Xsetup'. You can add e.g. xsetroot -solid aquamarine to one or both. Try experimenting; I

Starting X From .bash_profile

1999-01-06 Thread Tres Hofmeister
I recently switched to bash. I like to have X start upon login if I'm on the console, then have the initial shell exit. When I used tcsh as my login shell, I used this in my .login: # Start the X server if on the console. set delay = 3 if (`tty` == /dev/tty1) then echo Starting X11

Where is apache-common =1.3.3?

1999-01-06 Thread Erik van der Meulen
I am trying to install the IMP web-mail package. Somewere in the dependencies I need apache-common = 1.3.3. On www.debian.org I can only seem to find 1.3.0. This breaks the installation of php3 which is required for imp. Any ideas? -- Erik van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1999-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
On 06 Jan 1999 15:25:27 +0100, you wrote: Then how about installing the package maintainer scripts and wrap your self-built exim up as a debian package? You should be able to get the necessary debianizing magic from the package source for the debian exim. That would surely work, but I'd consider

why .deb?

1999-01-06 Thread Marc Haber
Hi! Last night, I had an interesting conversation with my ISP about the old distribution war. He brought me to Linux a year ago with SuSE and I have converted to Debian in fall 1998 while he is still with SuSE. He said one of the major reasons why he still uses SuSE is the strange packet format

Re: Starting X From .bash_profile

1999-01-06 Thread Tongyu Wang
I have a Diamond Sonic Impact sound card. Which driver should I use? My system is Debian 2.0.

Re: why .deb?

1999-01-06 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 06 Jan 1999 20:19:24 GMT, Marc Haber wrote: I don't know the historical reasons, but why does Debian have its .deb format? Does .deb have major advantages over .rpm? Is there a FAQ that explains these historical decisions Debian has gone though? A

Re: Modem stopped working when I upgraded to hamm

1999-01-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
Install isapnp package, and run pnpdump. If the output detected your modem, then you may be in good shape! Make sure that the serial ports are NOT built into your kernel, but are modules (I think that's what's in the default kernel). Then edit the isipnp.conf file to look like the settings

Re: why .deb?

1999-01-06 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi Marc, I think there is a .deb file while teh debian package format was before the Redhead .rpm was realized. Therefore the Question is: Why Redhead do a own package format ? isn't it Peter -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: debian-user@lists.debian.org

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1999-01-06 Thread ERIIX
We are setting up a network with Linux and need some help. We are attempting to remote (network) boot the Win95 systems that we already have as clients for our Linux server. The problem is this: We have been looking into using ROM chips plugged into the network cards on the clients, but

Re: why .deb?

1999-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Marc Haber wrote: I don't know the historical reasons, but why does Debian have its .deb format? Does .deb have major advantages over .rpm? Yes. See http://kitenet.net/~joey/pkgcomp.html for a comparison of the two package formats (not the programs like rpm and dpkg that use them, just the

Re: Festival/mpg123?

1999-01-06 Thread Joey Hess
Daniel Elenius wrote: Don't know, but an even cooler thing would be if the sound drivers could handle both of them at the same time. I would REALLY like that. It's so anoying when you don't get the sounds from Licq while playing MP3s, and I always play MP3s... And it is doable, of course.

Re: Festival/mpg123?

1999-01-06 Thread Daniel Elenius
Don't know, but an even cooler thing would be if the sound drivers could handle both of them at the same time. I would REALLY like that. It's so anoying when you don't get the sounds from Licq while playing MP3s, and I always play MP3s... And it is doable, of course. We'll just have to bug

Re: why .deb?

1999-01-06 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MH == Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MH I don't know the historical reasons, but why does Debian have its MH .deb format? Does .deb have major advantages over .rpm? dpkg was developed before rpm, in fact before .deb, there the distributions used .tar.gz files. Debian packages was the

Fortran 90 to C or Fortran 90 to Fortran 77 translator

1999-01-06 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Hi Debian users, anyone knows if exists a translator from Fortran90 to C or Fortran90 to Fortran77. I'm very interested in a program like this. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique

Re: installing cd-rom device driver

1999-01-06 Thread Jeff Katcher
per_adua32 wrote: Hello All, I am attempting to install Debian Linux and have got stuck.Before I began I read the installation F.A.Q.But it's section on installing the device drivers is extremly small. My problem started in the install device driver section: CD-ROM: I choose :

RE: Fortran 90 to C or Fortran 90 to Fortran 77 translator

1999-01-06 Thread Paulo J. da Silva e Silva
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes: Hi Debian users, anyone knows if exists a translator from Fortran90 to C or Fortran90 to Fortran77. I'm very interested in a program like this. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique -- Unsubscribe? mail -s

Re: Network setup problems

1999-01-06 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Wed, 6 Jan 1999, John Stevenson wrote: Here is the info you asked for: Our office network is fairly simplistic, basically we use the ISDN modem as a router / gateway to the internet. It has an internal IP address of 172.16.1.1 which I set on my laptop to be the address of the gateway.

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