[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Lauder) writes:
I'm running Debian 1.3.1 on a 486 with the XF86_P9000 Xserver. My
monitor supports DPMS and I have the power_save option and
StandbyTime, SuspendTime, and OffTime options set in my XF86Config
file.
The monitor suspends and powers down in X except
Walter L. Preuninger II [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have 4 network cards a poor old 486-66. When I run route I see all
routes fine, except for the -net entries. These are displayed in dotted
quad instead of name.
/etc/networks contains the following:
localnet 127.0.0.1
corenet
Dale Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is probably going to sound stupid, but...
How does one enable the numeric keypad in an xterm? I've never actually
noticed that the keypad acts as cursor movement before.
It works well for me. With Numlock enabled I get the numeric keys,
with
Ana Silva [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Sorry if my question is too sily but what is a compose Key?
Is it for acentuation ?
Yes, in most cases.
You can compose a character using other characters with the compose
key. For example, you can get ö (the german umlaut o just in case you
Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I could not find any documentation on this except the compose key
combinations as output of dumpkeys.
To be concrete: Which key or combination of keys do I have to press to
be able to compose something like ê or á? (I did this with emacs in
the
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No. I start the kernel module via /etc/modules. Just put sound
in a line for its own.
my /etc/modules is 'auto', what do you think? can I have 'auto' and
'sound' in the file?
I don't think so. But with auto setting your sound module will be
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
To be concrete: Which key or combination of keys do I have to press to
be able to compose something like ê or á? (I did this with emacs in
the iso-accents-mode). Is it the same for the console and in X?
Where can I read on how to define the
Mathias Haessig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
My problem is the following:
I tried to install XFree86 on my linux. Now I've got all files but I
can't set up the XWindows because when I run XF86Setup I get the error
message can't load libXaw.so.6.
Can anybody help me?
First check if the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello all!
I have a MAC address (ethernet address) that I'm trying to figure
out what IP is associated with it. I know that there is a
Reverse Address Resolution Protocol (RARP) that these machines use
to determine these types of things transparent to the user.
Adam Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can I get the Linux console to treat the right Alt key in the
same way as the left?
Look in the manual of keytables(5). I assume that (untested!)
something like keycode 100 = Alt should do the job.
Look into /etc/init.d/boot for the loadkeys command
Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or is a non-English keyboard map sufficient ?
If more than a key.map is needed, what might this be ?
Does anyone know how to configure a keyboard to allow the insertion
of accented characters under X?
I know it's got something to do with dead
Santiago Vila Doncel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Another thing you can do is to make an ~/.inputrc file for bash/readline.
Here is the mine:
\e[1~: beginning-of-line
\e[3~: delete-char
\e[4~: end-of-line
set meta-flag on
set convert-meta off
set output-meta on
set bell-style none
[
Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
David R Baker wrote:
I believe the no /usr/bin/X11/xfs found ... error is referring to
a running font server, not the file. The font server does not run
unless you configure it to run. This is merely a nuisance message.
I do not know about the
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thus, I think libc6 should include it. It appears that libc6 now includes
a manpage for ltell (which, I agree, is what the function should have been
named in the first place). However, for compatibility reasons, there should
be a #define tell(a,b,c)
Daniel Doro Ferrante [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all.
I would like to install some new TeX packages to my system, mainly
those distributed with TUG/CDROM. What do I do to install it? Is it only
copping to a directory and updating the paths, or is there anything
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think something has changed since I last used the awe-* packages.
I am runing the install.sh like instructed but even after that I am
not getting any prompt about awe32 support in low-level on sound.
Any ideas why not or if I can just add the line to the .config
Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello everybody,
Unfortunately I have got this question about mice...
I have a 3-button Microsoft mouse and it works fine in text mode. But I
could not get it to work under X-windows. Left and Right buttons seem to
be O.K., but middle one. I
Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It appears the tell(path) command is missing from libc6. What
should I be using instead?
The only tell that I could find in libc-5.4.33 is the following one:
file sysdeps/linux/tell.c:
off_t
tell (int fildes)
{
return __lseek (fildes, 0, SEEK_CUR);
}
I just detected the MD5_CRYPT_ENAB option in /etc/login.defs and
enabled it. Login works fine with the new passwords but su seems to
have no idea of MD5.
Is there a working version of su for MD5 passwords?
I have the following packages installed:
shellutils_1.16-2 (containing su)
Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmm ... I have a SB16 and midi works fine without isapnptools, maybe
that's the difference.
You probably have a waveblaster extension mounted to i/o 330 using the
MPU 401 interface. The SB 32 has a build-in (non MPU 401 compatible)
Emu8000
I sometimes have the problem that the permissions of /tmp has changed
(while booting?). From the normal rwxrwxrwt they change to rwxr-xr-x.
Does anyone has an idea what is causing this?
/tmp has an own partition and is mounted while booting using mount -a
if this is important.
Thanks for your
Michael Legart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
Is it possible to allow root access via telnet?
It is supposed to be used for remote administration. The server is
*not* connected to the Internet and contains no sensitive/important
data, so security would not be a problem. The server is
I have the package e2compr_1.06-2 installed providing the package
e2fsprogs (replacing it). If I now try to install a package (say mc)
depending on e2fsprogs (=1.06-1) it tells me this package is not
installed even though it is provided by e2compr.
What happens here?
Thanks,
Torsten
dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any how-to to setup an ppp server under Debian?
I need detailled information becouse I'm newie :-) and I want set up
one ppp server at my home.
Do you have the doc-linux package installed? Look at
file:/usr/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO.gz
in this
Tao Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi:
What's the command to mount floppy driver and how to access the
floppy?
First create a directory /floppy
Then execute
mount -t msdos /dev/fd0 /floppy # msdos formatted
or
mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy # win95 formatted
Use fd1 for
dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi
Is true that I never lose control on my linux box, but some times I lose
control in my X-Windows and I must restart the X. Is that usual?
I supose that's due to use some aplications. But if this is true, why I
lose control on all aplications that I'm
Will Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 01:10:03PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote:
If you have a pnp bios, it's handled before linux even boots.
Otherwise, you'll need to use the isapnptools package.
Hmm, nearly correct. I
Michael Legart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
Great ... I have solved my problem!
I thougt I had installed my new kernel by typing dpkg --install bla
bla., but that just made a file named vmlinuz-2.0.30 in /boot. I just
copied that file to /vmlinuz, and everything works fine!
/vmlinuz
Kenneth Gaugler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yesterday I used the dselect/ftp method to upgrade my machine from
Debian Linux 1.2 to
1.3. The system is now running 1.3, but X doesn't work anymore.
Normally I have xdm starting at boot time; now the screen never comes up
but the relays inside
Lukas Eppler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I found out what my problem was here: xntpd, and the
always-said-to-be-sleeping apache :-) these two do do a regular access to
the disk, even if there is no connection and no network ... is this a bug?
The solution leaded into a new problem: I _do_
Daniel J. Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I ran dpkg on gnuplot and everything seems to go on smoothly but
unfortunately it does not run. It says it cannot load a library
'libvga.so.1'. I have searched for a library with this name but I
did not find any.
You need to install the svgalib1
H Huang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've only got a grey scale monitor, and would like to change the
default X visual of my Debian box to GrayScale. How do I do that?
Thanks for your help.
Take a look at the manual page for XF86Config:
Visual visual-name
Paul McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I want to install debian linux on a partition on a hard disk. The hard
disk has windows 95 (actually 98) on it. OSR2 release of 95, and 98,
allow for formatting windows partitions using FAT 32. It is ok if the
Linux cannot read the Fat 32 partitions.
Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just to make things clear, kill doesn't stop anything; it's purpose
in life is to send a given signal to a given process. When you do a
killall -HUP inetd
you are sending a SIGHUP signal to all processes whose name matches
inetd. The inetd
Alex Monaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks to those who offered suggestions.
The final problem turned out to be that it had not included the
3c509.o in modules.dep, manually inserting it and rebooting caused
it to run OK.
Can anyone suggest why ?
Have you started 'depmod -a' ?
I
Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It seems as if the mother board is a bit too new,
7100-7113 and 1300 is unknown.
I also had trouble like this (I don't remember the specific unknown
numbers; the machine was a new Dec Venturis FX-2 with Pentium MMX).
It disappeared when I installed
Marcus Brinkmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i am experiencing strange behavior when attempting to load sound
support as a module. i have a debian 1.3.1 system and a SB
AWE-64 PNP card, which i have installed using the isapnptools.
the fact
I have a SB AWE-32 PNP (does someone know:
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't want to use my host name as my samba name... how can I change
samba to use a different name? I didn't find anything in the smb.conf man
page.
I'm currently loading samba 1.9.16p11 from the inetd.conf file.
Take a look at the -n option of nmbd.
Thomas Degner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hallo,
i recognized that the german keyboard extensions
of Xfree 3.3 won't work when /usr is mounted readonly.
[deleted some infos about system]
X complains that it cannot use the compliled keyboard
map (i don't have the exact message here).
I would like to translate the debiandoc files (such as
programmer.sgml) for later printing (on a4 paper) into tex. A
debiandoc2xxx command is missing for tex/latex and sgml2tex fails with
messages I don't even understand (I never programmed SGML).
Do I need any special parameter (such as
Michael Bravo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello,
I have the stable 1.3.1 installed. However, as I look at unstable on
the ftp, I see lots of much more up-to-date and needed
packages built with libc6. I have browsed through the mailing
list archives, and found bits and pieces concerning
Remco van de Meent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hey
Did anyone get 'locale' to work?
I don't see any differences in for example the `ls -l` output, when
setting the LANG environment variable to different strings.
The problems are the application. Only a few application currently
supports
dada [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi:
is there some tool to add an group in Debian? (I'm locking for
something like adduser)
addgroup group-name
That was easy, wasn't it,
Torsten
--
What a depressingly stupid machine
The Restaurant at the End of the
To answer this question we probably need some more information:
What printer filter do you use, Magicfilter or apsfilter?
What printer driver of gs do you have configured? The deskjet 400 is
probably a BW-printer being compatible to dj500.
You should also post the relevant part of the
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just discovered that xautolock is no longer working for me. I
immediately get an segmentation fault when executed. I suspect this
started to occur when I upgraded to 1.3.1 from 1.3.0 using the newer
version of Xfree86_3.3. Can anyone else confirm
Bob Billson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Has anyone already gotten magicfilter to work with the Espon Stylus
Color II (ink jet) printer? Is is compatiable with one of the other
Espon ink printers? I don't want to write my own configuration file
if it has already been done.
I had a similiar
Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk writes:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes:
How can I output tabs with sed?
I need something like: `s/insert tab here/\t'
In theory, sed -e 's/insert tab here/ /'
^
Nils Inge Lilleheie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have problems when I try to boot from the (binary) official CD on the
Digital Celebris GL180 PC's.
The PC recognize the CD to be bootable and displays:
LDLINUX.SYS 1.30 96/11/04 Copyright (C) 1994-96 H. Peter Arvin
on the screen,
Davinder Pal Singh \(STEP\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello Friends,
I am pretty new to Debian Linux. I have installed Debian 1.3.xx on a
100 Mhz Pentium PC.
But I am unable to start openwindow. I have installed the olvwm
*.deb package with the help of dpkg and xserver etc. before
that. But
I have just tried the ssltelnet-0.9.1-2 package it it seems to require
DNS for working. I have a hosts file with the following contents:
127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.1 marvin.bln.de marvin
192.168.0.2 hal.bln.de hal data
I i try connecting hal with the
Gonzalo A. Diethelm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello all,
I know this will prove I'm a newbie, but here it is anyway...
Everyone starts as newbie.
Why should I get Debian rather than other Linux distributions? I
very much like the idea of contributing to the free software idea,
but I'd
Kevin M. Bealer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to configure smail. I have read the documentation,
searched the source code for an hour or so, and tried to use the
generic configuration script at different settings.
I have been at this for several days -- my mail is still bouncing.
Magic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hehhh... I want to install xisp and
# dpkg -i xisp_1.3-1.deb
(Reading database ... 21024 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace xisp 1.3-1 (using xisp_1.3-1.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement xisp ...
dpkg: dependency problems
Shaleh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I will be using my Debian machine as a workstation. No outside
access will be needed and my only networking will be through PPP. I
intend to run X and basically tinker, surf, program, and enjoy not
using Microsoft products. My questions is -- what can I do
Bruno O. M. Simoes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi there
I took this file in www.qmail.org and doesn't seem to work:
taz# tar -xzf qmail-1_01_tar.gz
tar: Skipping to next file header
gzip: stdin: invalid compressed data--crc error
I couldn't descompress it.
Does someone
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What package is forms.h in? and is there a easy way to search
through packages for a file?
To answer both questions:
~$ dpkg -S forms.h
xforms-dev: /usr/X11R6/include/X11/forms.h
Maybe you need to add a -L/usr/X11R6/include line to makefiles of most
Dean Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone know of any problems with Leafnode ? It doesn't appear to get
a full chunk of news when fetch runs ... Here's a sample session from a
logged in session as news :
[log-file removed]
After running it the first time, I immediately ran it
Paul Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ahh.. I found the option for mount (conv=??) but I didn't find those
tools - -- todos / fromdos or unix2dos / dos2unix.. I have mtools
3.6 installed... anyone know what package either of these utils are
part of?
~$ dpkg -S dos2unix
sysutils:
Magossa'nyi A'rpa'd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
I want to change my MTA from sendmail to qmail. How to do that?
When I want to install qmail, dpkg says that I can't do that because
sendmail is already installed as a MTA. If I want to uninstall
sendmail, then it refuses because a lot of
Shaya Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The wrapper script that the .deb installs sets up the correct
variables so that you don't have a problem and don't have to edit
your .bashrc or similar file. It also prevents netscape from being
run as root, which depending on your opinion (but should
I just looked at the new packages in 1.3.1. I tried to installing
jdk1.1 and find out that all the documentation provided by Sun (API,
demos) are compressed.
The same happens for other packages too. The dvi files which are part
of teTeX package are compressed too. This makes reading of these
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