Kernel 2.2

1999-02-09 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos... Normalmente, tengo dos nucleos para alternar con lilo, ahora tengo 2.0.35 y 36. Ahora que ha salido el 2.2, tengo la duda de si se puede alterna uno de la serie 2.0 y otro de la 2.2, o este ultimo necesita binarios que en la anterior pueden producir problemas. Por cierto, no se

Re: staroffice virge

1999-02-09 Thread JuanjoC \(PianoTuner\)
TooManySecrets wrote: Veamos... Si bien es cierto que el SVGA rula bien, una vez que se ha terminado la instalación, y se ha instalado el parche para la S3V, se vuelve a poner el servidor SV3 y rula todo a las mil maravillas... Lo digo por experiencia. Vaya, yo pensando que era algún

Re: Problema con el disco

1999-02-09 Thread JuanjoC \(PianoTuner\)
Vicenç Masanas wrote: Durante el boot obtengo este mensaje donde segun parece se desactiva el DMA: hdb: timeout waiting for DMA hdb: irq timeout: status=0x58 { DriveReady SeekComplete DataRequest } hda: DMA disabled hdb: DMA disabled ide0: reset: success hdb1 [...] Así a bote

Re: Problema con postgres

1999-02-09 Thread JuanjoC \(PianoTuner\)
Hernan Mauricio Velasquez Nino wrote: Tengo una base de datos, con nombre xxx la cual cree con algunas tablas. Debo crear otra base de datos yyy. Lo hago con tanto con el comando createdb como con psql y create database, y en ambos casos me crea la base de datos yyy pero le copia dos

ssh

1999-02-09 Thread frodo
Hola, He buscado por todas partes el paquete ssh y no lo encuentro, sin embargo, estoy casi seguro que existía en paquete debian. ¿Sabe alguien si existe o existió alguna vez? saludos -- Nicolás García - Pedrajas Department of

Tarjeta 3D Blaster Banshee

1999-02-09 Thread Jose L. Erausquin
Hola a todos: Tengo un compañero de trabajo que está teniendo problemas para arrancar el entorno de ventanas X, porque parece que la version de XFree que tiene (3.3.3) no soporta su tarjeta (3D Blaster Banshee). La version 3.3.3.1 tampoco hace mención de la misma (o al menos no la hemos

Re: Kernel 2.2

1999-02-09 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 06:42:54AM +0100, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: Hola a todos... Normalmente, tengo dos nucleos para alternar con lilo, ahora tengo 2.0.35 y 36. Ahora que ha salido el 2.2, tengo la duda de si se puede alterna uno de la serie 2.0 y otro de la 2.2, o este ultimo necesita

Re: ssh

1999-02-09 Thread Jordi Román Mejias
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola, He buscado por todas partes el paquete ssh y no lo encuentro, sin embargo, estoy casi seguro que existía en paquete debian. ¿Sabe alguien si existe o existió alguna vez? saludos Si existe, está en Debian non-Us

Re: urgente swhitch/hub

1999-02-09 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
La terminología en trastos de comunicaciones en general, y en cacharros para conectividad de ordenadores en particular está tan machacada, que muchas veces es difícil de decir... Pero normalmente: . Un HUB suele ser un concentrador relativamente pasivo (aunque hoy día casi seguro

Re: urgente swhitch/hub

1999-02-09 Thread Antonio Fernández Fernández
Creo que el swhitch es más inteligente que el hub, pues éste sólo se limita a guiar las salidas a las distintas bocas, mientras que el otro puede hacer más cosas como conmutar de 100/10 y saber a quién tiene que enviar una salida... TooManySecrets escribió: Buenas. Necesitaría cierta

Re: ESPERANDO RESPUESTA

1999-02-09 Thread Santiago Vila
On Fri, 5 Feb 1999, Jesús Pérez Franco - PROVISIONAL wrote: Hola, soy un estudiante de la Escuela Superior de Ingenieria de Cadiz y estoy realizando el proyecto de fin de carrera utilizando la libreria XFORMS. No encuentro los ejemplos (DEMOS) sobre la herramienta fdesign que aparencian

Entorno de desarrollo gráfico

1999-02-09 Thread David
Estoy buscando un entorno gráfico para linux; ya he visto el visual-tcl. ¿ Hay más ? Un saludo, David

Re: Entorno de desarrollo gráfico

1999-02-09 Thread Jaime E. Villate
David preguntó: Estoy buscando un entorno gráfico para linux; ya he visto el visual-tcl. ¿ Hay más ? Hce unos dias Marcelo Magallón sugirió Fast Light Tool Kit para c++ (paquetes libs/libfltk0 y devel/libfltk-dev). Yo los ensayé y quedé muy bien impresionado. Funciona muy, bien está bien

Re: Entorno de desarrollo gráfico

1999-02-09 Thread Jaime E. Villate
pido disculpas por la dirección que envie en el mensaje anterior que está mal. La dirección correcta es: http://fltk.easysw.com (The Fast Light Tool Kit) Jaime Villate Universidad de Oporto

Re: Entorno de desarrollo gráfico

1999-02-09 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
David wrote: Estoy buscando un entorno gráfico para linux; ya he visto el visual-tcl. ¿ Hay más ? Echale un vistazo a xforms. Saludos, Octavio

Consulta C++

1999-02-09 Thread Alejandro Bratti
Hola a todos!! Acabo de empezar a usar el linux y tengo un monton de dudas. Una de ellas es saber como crear un ejecutable despues de haber compilado un archivo en c++ o c. Al compilarlo me da uno con extension .out y despues que se hace para correrlo. Si tengo archivos fuentes de un programa,

RE: iNet: conecto, obtengo una IP y ahora?

1999-02-09 Thread Jon Noble
¿Tienes alguna especie de firewall configurado? Ya me funciona :). Tenia el kernel configurado para firewall y algunas opciones más que de momento no necesito. Alguna de estas me bloqueaba la conexión. Gracias a todos por la ayuda, especialmente a Hue-Bond. Un saludo, Jon

Re: Linux Actual

1999-02-09 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Um el caso es que yo la vi cuando fui a la editorial a recoger mi cheque de la colaboración del número 5 (hace una semana)... no la he visto en los kioskos sin embargo... y me da la impresión (aunque no lo he confirmado) que los de la editorial pretenden retrasar el número 6 para que

RE: Consulta C++

1999-02-09 Thread eloy
On 09-Feb-99 Alejandro Bratti wrote: Hola a todos!! Acabo de empezar a usar el linux y tengo un monton de dudas. Una de ellas es saber como crear un ejecutable despues de haber compilado un archivo en c++ o c. Al compilarlo me da uno con extension .out y despues que se hace para correrlo.

Re: Problemas de memoria

1999-02-09 Thread Octavio Rodriguez Perez
Antonio Castro wrote: Acabo de arrancar las x y luego el netscape, para que puedas comparar. Te recuerdo que mi swap está algo sobre dimensionada. Mira la última línea que te mando relativa al estado de la memoria. Yo tengo casi toda la memoria libre. Tu tienes casi toda la memoria ocupada.

Re: Problemas de memoria

1999-02-09 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:29:20PM +, Octavio Rodriguez Perez wrote: Pero claro, al leer ahora estos mensajes de la lista, y ver que el problema aparece con programas completamente diferentes, creo que el bug es del programa top que en algunos casos no indica correctamente la cantidad de

rm -r me ha dejado de funcionar.

1999-02-09 Thread Antonio Calvo Rodriguez
Pues eso que rm -r no me funciona. Si hago rm -r *.html en un directorio no baja a los siguientes. ALguien sabria por que pasa eso?? Es el de hamm -- Antonio Calvo Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vigo/Galicia/España --

Re: rm -r me ha dejado de funcionar.

1999-02-09 Thread Josep Guerrero Sole
Hola, Antonio! Si hago rm -r *.html en un directorio no baja a los siguientes. ALguien sabria por que pasa eso?? Bueno, es que no deberia hacerlo. La shell sustituye la estrella por los nombres de los ficheros antes de que rm haga nada, asi que para rm es como si le hubieras dicho rm -r

Re: problema con la direccion de retorno

1999-02-09 Thread Vicente Barba
El Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 02:37:25PM -0300, Felipe Sanchez decías: Holas, Hace un tiempo hice esta misma consulta, pero como todavía no logro solucionarlo intento de nuevo. El problema es que bajo email desde dos casillas, mi ISP y mi trabajo. Como no quiero mezclar lo que manejo en el

Re: urgente swhitch/hub

1999-02-09 Thread TooManySecrets
Muchas gracias a todos por vuestras contestaciones. Pongo ésta aquí para quien le pueda interesar. Al menos, es de las que me han llegado cuando he cogido el correo a las 14:30 h., y que creo de interés general. Repito muchas gracias a todos por vuestras contestaciones y rapidez. Jesus M.

Re: ssh

1999-02-09 Thread TooManySecrets
[EMAIL PROTECTED] el día Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 09:49:52AM +0100 expuso lo siguiente: Hola, He buscado por todas partes el paquete ssh y no lo encuentro, sin embargo, estoy casi seguro que existía en paquete debian. ¿Sabe alguien si existe o existió alguna vez? Al menos yo lo tengo tanto

Re: staroffice virge

1999-02-09 Thread TooManySecrets
JuanjoC PianoTuner el día Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 07:05:45AM + expuso lo siguiente: TooManySecrets wrote: Veamos... Si bien es cierto que el SVGA rula bien, una vez que se ha terminado la instalación, y se ha instalado el parche para la S3V, se vuelve a poner el servidor SV3 y rula todo

Reinstalar Hamm

1999-02-09 Thread homega
Resulta que me he cargado la imagen del núcleo... bueno, quise copiar /vmlinuz de Slackware3.5 al directorio raíz de Debian2.0... quería hacer: cp -a /mnt/vmlinuz /svmlinuz pero sin querer omití la `s' que debería darle un nombre diferente al de la imagen de Debian e hice: cp -a /mnt/vmlinuz

X based developer

1999-02-09 Thread Brant Wells
Howdy All... Is there an X-based programming environment like Visual Basic, or Visual C++??? Any help woule be appreciated. Thanks, Brant __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: HP DeskJets

1999-02-09 Thread servis
I would also look at installing the gs-aladdin package from the non-free part of Debian. It has a special HP Deskjet driver compiled into it. You can specify lots of features such as print quality, color mode, paper type, etc. See the gs-hpdj man page once it is installed. You then will have

can backgrounded processes outlive a login?

1999-02-09 Thread Rob Mahurin
Let's say that I have some program I need to run that will take several hours, and that I want to end my login session so I don't have to worry about curious passersby coming and doing terrible things while my account is logged on. It seems that there should be some way to accomplish this. Is

Re: minimum X packages?

1999-02-09 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Branden Robinson wrote: On Sun, Feb 07, 1999 at 11:19:07AM -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I recently upgraded to potato. Now X starts and immediately dies. Why would this be? This is (probably) a known bug in -9. Upgrade to -10. What are the minimum packages

Re: Setting up debian for ftp

1999-02-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
AW == Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: AW how would I go about setting up debian for regular non-anonymous AW ftp? It is enabled by dafault. I would install the proftpd package, as it is better than the default ftp daemon. AW and also, can someone tell me or guide to a doc how do setup

RE: Redirecting display output to multiple monitors

1999-02-09 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have three computers on a LAN. I want to run an application in one of them and have the display output showing on the other two at the same time. I guess what I'm trying to do is something like MS netmeeting. Is this possible? Try XMX (X multiplexer).

RE: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-09 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: The problem is that dselect fails to connect. Dselect shows the following message: Connecting to ftp.debian.org Failed to connect The ftp program normally doesn't dial the modem for you, because it doesn't know whether you aren't just intending to use the ethernet,

Re: can backgrounded processes outlive a login?

1999-02-09 Thread John Hasler
man hohup. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: what's 32 bpp?

1999-02-09 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 18:26 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 12:06:30PM -0800, Kenneth Scharf wrote: What happens in 32bpp?? I do not believe that video dac's are available wider than 8 bits. If they are, are 3 10 bit dac's used, with the extra 2 bits thrown away?

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I really hate doing that, though. It seems like there should be a way to make /dev/audio available

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: Here is my /dev/audio prompt$ ll /dev/audio crw-rw 1 root audio 14, 4 Jul 20 1998 /dev/audio run 'groups' as the user. If audio appears then the above should work, it does on every one of my machines. If audio is not listed as one

Re: X based developer

1999-02-09 Thread Dave Swegen
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 16:01 -0800, Brant Wells wrote: Howdy All... Is there an X-based programming environment like Visual Basic, or Visual C++??? Any help woule be appreciated. Look! There goes the neighbourhood! (Sorry, couldn't resist it ;) I believe there is a project to create a

Re: minimum X packages?

1999-02-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 06:31:35PM -0600, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: hi why -10 insists on having tons of stuff installed i really don't use? like xfs, or rstart(d), or twm (is there any person alive who uses twm?), or xmh, or xterm, or... It doesn't. Read the extended description of the

Re: Zip detection in Kernel2.2.0 Problems

1999-02-09 Thread Mike Merten
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 07:59:38PM +, Olafur Jens Sigurdsson wrote: On 07. febrúar 1999, Mauro Mazzieri wrote: Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: When loading the kernel I get ppa: Version2.03 (for Linux 2.2.0) Warning - no ppa compatible devices found. My zipdrive is connected to my

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom OK, so all I had to do was make /dev/hdc world-readable sigh Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge

Re: can backgrounded processes outlive a login?

1999-02-09 Thread Martin Saturka
Rob Mahurin wrote: Let's say that I have some program I need to run that will take several hours, and that I want to end my login session so I don't have to worry about curious passersby coming and doing terrible things while my account is logged on. It seems that there should be some way

Re: HP DeskJets

1999-02-09 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Alec Smith wrote: I use my DeskJet 870Cse with Linux, with good results. A comparable model on the market today would be roughly the 895Cse, so long as you've got the parallel version. Once you have the printer, just use magicfilter's dj550 filter and edit /etc/printcap

NFS upgrades

1999-02-09 Thread Matthew Garrett
Hi, I'm currently helping upgrade a server running Debian 2.0 to the 2.2 kernel. We've managed to satisfy most of the dependencies mentioned in the kernel documentation other than the NFS one - the changes file suggests 2.2beta40, while the latest Debian package I've been able to find is

X11R6: No acceleration primitives defined - Again

1999-02-09 Thread Matthias Schulz
I'm working to get X11R6 on my Compaq Contura 410 (486DX2-50, 20MB, 2GB, external monitor) working. Last time i had still a problem with the trackball, -just forgot insmod psaux- it is resolved now. But the server starts, shows the background and mousepointer and shuts down. I get following

Re: XPR for x-windows?

1999-02-09 Thread Branden Robinson
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 05:45:18PM -0600, Kelly Corbin wrote: Question. Does anyone know where to get xpr for Debian or something like it? XPR takes an XWD (x-window dump file) an converts it into a Post-script file. If anyone knows where to get it or another program like it that converts

How to trace why a process is running?

1999-02-09 Thread Eric House
Scenario: my machine is on but hasn't been used for several hours when I notice the hard drive taking lots of hits. I log on and run 'top' which tells me a 'find', owned by root, is using 25% of the CPU. 'ps -ef', even as root, doesn't show the 'find'. Question: how do I figure out who started

Re: How to trace why a process is running?

1999-02-09 Thread Jolyon Suthers
Scenario: my machine is on but hasn't been used for several hours when I notice the hard drive taking lots of hits. I log on and run 'top' which tells me a 'find', owned by root, is using 25% of the CPU. 'ps -ef', even as root, doesn't show the 'find'. Question: how do I figure out who started

Re: How to trace why a process is running?

1999-02-09 Thread Roland E. Lipovits
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 06:23:46PM -0800, Eric House wrote: I notice the hard drive taking lots of hits. I log on and run 'top' which tells me a 'find', owned by root, is using 25% of the CPU. 'ps -ef', even as root, doesn't show the 'find'. Question: how do I figure out who started that

Re: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread Dave Swegen
On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 01:16 +, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Richard Hall wrote: On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: On 08-Feb-99 Richard Hall wrote: I went ahead and did 'chmod 666 /dev/audio' and that made workman work. I really hate doing that, though.

Re: HP DeskJets

1999-02-09 Thread Alec Smith
Well, color might not be quite to the level of Winblows, but its passable. There is a version of gs-aladdin that includes DeskJet 850 support, but I haven't bothered to build it from source yet. (DJ850 isn't included in the standard build). Webpages print fine. At 05:33 PM 2/8/99 -0800, Syrus

Re: How to trace why a process is running?

1999-02-09 Thread John Hasler
Eric House writes: Scenario: my machine is on but hasn't been used for several hours when I notice the hard drive taking lots of hits. I log on and run 'top' which tells me a 'find', owned by root, is using 25% of the CPU. About 5AM? probably cron running updatedb to update the database used

2 Emacs Questions

1999-02-09 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
How do I search and replace 'hard-returns' or 'line-breaks'? I searched dejanews and the only thing I could find was to use C-q 'Enter' 'Enter' with Alt-Shift %, but when I try this I get 'No search patterns found'. Thanks Lance

Re: 2 Emacs Questions

1999-02-09 Thread David B. Teague
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: How do I search and replace 'hard-returns' or 'line-breaks'? I searched dejanews and the only thing I could find was to use C-q 'Enter' 'Enter' with Alt-Shift %, but when I try this I get 'No search patterns found'. Thanks Lance Lance You use

Re: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, Dave Swegen wrote: [snip] It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you are using shadow passwords just adding a user to /etc/group manually is not

reconfiguring a serial port -- please help

1999-02-09 Thread Richard Black
Hi all I am trying to reconfigure my serial ports and am having no luck. At the moment, I have my mouse on /dev/ttyS0 and an internal modem on /dev/ttyS1. What I want to do is put my modem on /dev/ttyS2 IRQ7 so that I can use the built in serial board (that I presume exists on my mother board)

Linux/windows networking questions.

1999-02-09 Thread Kevin Poorman \(Petra\)
Ok, I'm at wits end here... 3 days and 5 ... yes FIVE installs of 98 later I've decided that I HATE windows... and would realy realy love to dump it. However, My school (Milligan, www.milligan.edu) uses a Microsoft Proxy Sever/Client v2.0 (MAJOR YUCK) on the schools network... and I can't

TNT/OpenGL acceleration?

1999-02-09 Thread Joel Gluth
Having made the decision to grit my teeth and buy a whole new machine, I'm giving a lot of thought to what video card to buy. My current one (which will continue to live with us) has some cheapo SVGA card and uses 3dfx for Quake. I really like TNT though, and it would be nice to buy a 2D/3D card

Re: X based developer

1999-02-09 Thread Morgan Fletcher
Brant Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is there an X-based programming environment like Visual Basic, or Visual C++??? Any help woule be appreciated. Dunno if it's true, but I heard that Metrowerks is planning on porting their IDE to linux/X11. morgan --

Re: X based developer

1999-02-09 Thread Kevin Poorman \(Petra\)
Date forwarded: 9 Feb 1999 04:41:28 - To: Brant Wells [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copies to: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject:Re: X based developer From: Morgan Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date sent: 08 Feb 1999

Networking

1999-02-09 Thread Bal K. Paudyal
I have two pcs at home with net-work cards, PC-A PC-B. In PC-A there is no CDROM drive, I installed Debian Linux base from floppies. In order to make room for Linux, I had to get rid of Windows 95 at PC-A, but I have kept DOS6.22 Windows3.1. Now, I can't connect to my Win95 PC-B using Windows

Re: Networking

1999-02-09 Thread kaynjay
How about the crude approach of yanking the HD out of box A and install in B? While sounding painful, doing that with a change of jumpers to accomodate the slave (if needed) can go quite quickly. Or take a laplink approach? (I've never used it, but believe it does what you want ...) Kenward

libXt.so.6 (where can I get it?)

1999-02-09 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I need libXt.so.6 to run both netscape and wordperfect. Is there a package that contains this package? I very much need it. On another note, what's going on with irc.debian.org? Is it down. It is usually very helpful in discovering which package a given file is in. Hmmm. Thanks, NatePuri

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-09 Thread Joey Hess
Anthony Campbell wrote: don't - in fact, I've even wired my speaker through the turbo switch so it's off most of the time! Hm, do you dislike beeps or what? It's pretty trivial to patch the kernel to disable beeps, I could make a loadable module that disabled kernel beeps while it was loaded in

Debian Setup Problem

1999-02-09 Thread Gokhan ALGANATAY
I am trying to setup debian from the official cdrom. As suggested I boot from cd, comnfigure keuyboard, swap and linuz partitions, initialize anda mount than. After that point installation step is the next. But when I start to install an error occured indicating that unable to mount /dev/loop0 to

GMT take-over in slink

1999-02-09 Thread Robert King
Since I upgraded to slink, for some reason syslog reports all its times in GMT (which isn't a big problem), and cron does its stuff according to GMT (which is a big problem, because updatedb goes off in the middle of the afternoon instead of at 6am, which is a real pain). Does anyone know why its

Re: /dev/loop0 mount problem

1999-02-09 Thread Gokhan ALGANATAY
I've just downloaded the whole cdrom, which I believe is the lasted one. I'am using binaries for installation. Did not do anything about activation loop0 in the kernel. Regards, Gokhan Alganatay -Original Message- From: Robbie Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: NFS upgrades

1999-02-09 Thread Tino Schwarze
Hi Matthew, I'm currently helping upgrade a server running Debian 2.0 to the 2.2 kernel. We've managed to satisfy most of the dependencies mentioned in the kernel documentation other than the NFS one - the changes file suggests 2.2beta40, while the latest Debian package I've been able to find

Re: reconfiguring a serial port -- please help

1999-02-09 Thread Peter Berlau
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 11:11:21PM -0500, Richard Black wrote: Hi, [..] First I changed the jumpers on my model to COM3 IRQ 7 (an unused IRQ) the irq 7 is mostly used by the printerdevice. io 0x378 irq=7 [..] maybe You can try the irq 9 ? -- Peter Berlau [EMAIL PROTECTED]

shell scripting

1999-02-09 Thread caa
i want to write a little shell script called addmailuser w/c executes adduser --conf /etc/mailuser.conf where mailuser.conf contains info like making their default shell /bin/false. in dos, that addmailuser file will simply contain adduser --conf /etc/mailuser.conf %1 where %1 is the first

Re: netscape proxy configuration

1999-02-09 Thread ivan
Thanks for your comments I ended up fixing the problem by manually editing the config file (the one that says do not edit !) - I can't remember the name of it now though (back in Windows land). I got the settings from my windows netscape config file and away I went. No probs so far. Ivan. At

Network Not Working!

1999-02-09 Thread Peter Ludwig
I'm having fun here :) I've got the system setup to handle my ISP almost perfectly (still am having a problem with fetchmail not responding to all requests properly), now I've got a problem with the network at home. I installed Debian telling it that I was on a network (the home network, two

Re: GMT take-over in slink

1999-02-09 Thread Remco van de Meent
Robert King wrote: Since I upgraded to slink, for some reason syslog reports all its times in GMT (which isn't a big problem), and cron does its stuff according to GMT (which is a big problem, because updatedb goes off in the middle of the afternoon instead of at 6am, which is a real pain).

Re: reconfiguring a serial port -- please help

1999-02-09 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 11:11:21PM -0500, Richard Black wrote: [...] What I want to do is put my modem on /dev/ttyS2 IRQ7 so that I can use the built in serial board (that I presume exists on my mother board) on /dev/ttyS1 (irq 3) for other stuff. First I changed the jumpers on my model to

Re: HP DeskJets

1999-02-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 09:08:04PM +0100, Martin Saturka wrote: Hello, can somebody tell me, how HP DJs work in Linux? Which of them works well? I want to buy one, but I don't know what are doing nice results (690C, 880C, ...???). Thanks a lot, Martin They work very well PROVIDED you

Network card driver installation

1999-02-09 Thread Abel Gascón Abellán
Hello! I've just installed linux debian and my network card ICL Etherteam PCI wasn't added correctly to the system. I know that the chipset in the card is an AMD PCNet. I think the driver installation wasn't successful because the irq and IO address weren't corrects, but I don't know what is

Re: shell scripting

1999-02-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I want to write a little shell script called addmailuser w/c executes adduser --conf /etc/mailuser.conf where mailuser.conf contains info like making their default shell /bin/false. in dos, that addmailuser file will simply contain adduser --conf /etc/mailuser.conf %1 where %1 is the first

Re: Mouse support in X-Windows

1999-02-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I have just installed X-Windows on my Dell P2 PC with a Microsoft IntelliMouse. However X-Windows complains: Warning: /dev/psaux unable to get status of mouse fd (Inappropriate ioctl for device) and the mouse does not work properly - it appears to be stuck in a window enlarge

RE: workman and sound

1999-02-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: On Tue, 9 Feb 1999, M.C. Vernon wrote: It has to be said that I can only play CDs as root, despite chgrping /dev/cdrom to audio, and adding myself to /dev/cdrom OK, so all I had to do was make

Re: reconfiguring a serial port -- please help

1999-02-09 Thread buns
Richard Black wrote: Hi all I am trying to reconfigure my serial ports and am having no luck. At the moment, I have my mouse on /dev/ttyS0 and an internal modem on /dev/ttyS1. What I want to do is put my modem on /dev/ttyS2 IRQ7 so that I can use the built in serial board (that I presume

Re: libXt.so.6 (where can I get it?)

1999-02-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 22:30:58 -0800, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I need libXt.so.6 to run both netscape and wordperfect. Is there a package that contains this package? xlib6 in oldlibs. On another note, what's going on with irc.debian.org? Is it down. irc.debian.org is a rotating DNS name;

Re: Fortran + X11 compilation

1999-02-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Mon, Feb 08, 1999 at 18:10:31 +, Jose L. Gomez Dans wrote: I was told to move to Fortran to do some work, so it's not my fault :))) I don't have anything to do with Fortran :))) Anyway, I downloaded the pgplot graphic libraries, and tried compiling an example program. Apparently,

upgrading to 2.0.35 or 2.0.36 under Hamm

1999-02-09 Thread Chris Evans
I am running Hamm very happily on a machine sitting in an ISP. However, it can't access the SCSI controller and I need to fix that (very nervously). I am advised that the ncr based controller is likely to be happier with the 2.0.35 or 2.0.36 kernel, though it may still need a driver/module

Need help with Leafnode/Netscape

1999-02-09 Thread John C. Ellingboe
I am unable to connect to my Leafnode server from my workstation running Netscape. I an running a server system with Debian hamm and some slink packages advised by security advisories and a workstation with hamm and some slink packages including Netscape 4.06. I have installed and configured

Re: Where is kernel 2.2.0?

1999-02-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Feb 1999q, Joey Hess wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: don't - in fact, I've even wired my speaker through the turbo switch so it's off most of the time! Hm, do you dislike beeps or what? It's pretty trivial to patch the kernel to disable beeps, I could make a loadable module that

Re: DSelect and ftp

1999-02-09 Thread Jiri Baum
Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven: ppp.log: ... send (ATZ^M) expect (OK) ^M NO CARRIER -- Failed Failed (NO CARRIER) Connect script failed exit. That sounds as if ppp (or chat) is sending `ATZ' to the modem, expecting to get back `OK' but getting `NO CARRIER' instead. Is that right? That'd

Re: using dpkg

1999-02-09 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, [bash]$ whoami; dpkg -i filename.deb mblevin dpkg: `ldconfig' not found on PATH. dpkg: `start-stop-daemon' not found on PATH. dpkg: `install-info' not found on PATH. dpkg: `update-rc.d' not found on PATH. dpkg: 4 expected program(s) not found on PATH. I wrote: Why are those

Re: Dual Boot Woes

1999-02-09 Thread Jiri Baum
Kent West: You can then go one step further and set up CONFIG.SYS AUTOEXEC.BAT to offer the choice of which OS you want to boot into. You can go a step further still and set up autoexec to run one or the other depending on the presence of a particular file, so you can switch from one to the

Re: Networking

1999-02-09 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Bal K. Paudyal: I have two pcs at home with net-work cards, PC-A PC-B. In PC-A there is no CDROM drive, I installed Debian Linux base from floppies. In order to make room for Linux, I had to get rid of Windows 95 at PC-A, but I have kept DOS6.22 Windows3.1. Now, I can't connect to

Re: Redirecting display output to multiple monitors

1999-02-09 Thread Jiri Baum
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I have three computers on a LAN. I want to run an application in one of them and have the display output showing on the other two at the same time. I guess what I'm trying to do is something like MS netmeeting. Is this possible? I'm not familiar with netmeeting, and others

KDE-1.1Pre2 on a hamm system (report)

1999-02-09 Thread Peter Weiss
Hello, if someone is interested in, I just succeeded installing the KDE-1.1Pre2 debian packages from the kde.org server on a mostly pure Hamm system. Here's a list of what needed to be done on my machine: - kdebase depends on the following packages that need to be upgraded

HP LaserJet IIIp configuration

1999-02-09 Thread Armin Wegner
I've got a HP LaserJet IIIp and chosen hpjet3 in magicfilterconfig. But when printing my LaTeX files with dvips the left margin is greater than I told to. Can you help me.

smail configuration.

1999-02-09 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, some sites mail spam rejects my mail because my hostname is not qualified. So how do I config smail to make sure my host name is qualified. I had a look at the man page about /etc/smail/qualify... but don't really understand what to do with it... Thx. Shao.

Re: Come cambiare l'owner di uno script lanciato da pppd ?

1999-02-09 Thread Aaron Stromas
Ciao, tra i vari script in /etc/ppp/ip-up ho messo uno che fa: /usr/sbin/pppstats -w 10 >> /var/log/pppstats.log dato che viene avviato da pppd, ha owner root, anche se 'pon' lo lancio da user normale. Quando mi disconnetto, con 'poff', killo il programma, ma mi dice:

SoundBlaster card configuration

1999-02-09 Thread Armin Wegner
Hello everybody, having problems with your SoundBlaster card. I recommend to recompile the kernel and to set the irq, ports, etc. Don't forget to say yes to the sound devices. I know, compiling the kernel is not the easiest thing and eats time, but it's worth this. Your new kernel perfectly fits

Re: HP LaserJet IIIp configuration

1999-02-09 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I've got a HP LaserJet IIIp and chosen hpjet3 in magicfilterconfig. But when printing my LaTeX files with dvips the left margin is greater than I told to. Can you help me. I don't use magicfilter myself, but could it be that it is configured for letter paper whereas you are sending it A4?

Re: Dial in Server Problem

1999-02-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
Jorge Sousa hat gesagt: // Jorge Sousa wrote: I'm trying to use Debian Linux as a ppp dial in server for Win95 clients. I'm able to login into the linux box only if I have the - Bring terminal window after dialing - check box checked. If this checkbox is off the line goes down after a while.

Re: Need help with Leafnode/Netscape

1999-02-09 Thread Dave Swegen
You could try going into /etc/hosts.allow and changing the hostnames for leafnode so that they use numeric values instead (ie change 'localhost' to '127.0.0.1'). HTH Cheers Dave On Tue, Feb 09, 1999 at 04:03 -0600, John C. Ellingboe wrote: I am unable to connect to my Leafnode server

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