Re: Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-20 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Shawn McMahon wrote: begin Daniel Mashao quotation: messages (if they were error messages at all :) ). All I want is a program that will take the address of the mirror site, the dist I want, and say get woody for me. Have the program get it. Simple. So

Alternative to DEBIAN-CD

2002-04-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
I find debian-cd complicate and I cannot find the reason why it should be. All I want is to go to my usual mirror site and get woody distribution files and write them to a cd so that I can go home and update my computer to woody. 'potato' is just plain old - released in 2000, etc. I have a scanner

Re: Getting Handspring Pilot Setup

2002-03-05 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 3 Mar 2002, james martinez wrote: Ok I am running Woody and want to get my Handspring Pilot to sync with my computer under Linux. This is one of the only reasons I still boot Windows. I am using Gnome with the Enlightenment window manager. When I go into the Gnome control center to setup

Some program wrongly updates my /etc/resolv.conf after reboot

2001-12-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
Which program is doing that and how can I stop it from updating my resolv.conf? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town

Help with Masquerading and Ip tables

2001-07-25 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi Can anybody please help I am trying to setup a network and getting frustrated by the day. I am dialling in from home (HOME) 192.168.0.4 into my work (WORK) 192.168.0.1 using PPP. I have set a kernel at work with all the IP stuff in the kernel. Stuff like NAT and so on. Once I am logged on

Re: Where do I find NAT for IPTABLES?

2001-07-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sat, 21 Jul 2001, Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: Where do I find NAT for IPTABLES? Date: Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 01:43:23AM +0200 In reply to:Daniel Mashao Quoting Daniel Mashao([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Is it an option that I need to make a module or insert in the kernel

Where do I find NAT for IPTABLES?

2001-07-21 Thread Daniel Mashao
Is it an option that I need to make a module or insert in the kernel? In which part of the kernel setting is NAT mentioned? If all I want is just a simple setting so that I can use my networked computer to surf the net what should my iptable look like? Where should it be kept? HELP

apt problems and why?

2001-03-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
I get the following error message home:/home/daniel# apt-get -f install Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Correcting dependencies... failed. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: libesd0: Depends: esound-common but it is not installed E:

Re: Cannot install RealPlayer

2001-03-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 6 Mar 2001, Frodo Baggins wrote: THANK YOU VERY MUCH. IT WAS INSTALLED WITHOUT PROBLEMS. NOW I MUST CHECK THAT IT WORKS. On Tue, Mar 06, 2001 at 11:06:24PM +0200, Daniel Mashao scripsit: Hi, I cannot install real player because the Debian install program says You are running in non

Cannot install RealPlayer

2001-03-06 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi, I cannot install real player because the Debian install program says You are running in non-interactive mode ... What? I am running in an interactive mode I thought. Anybody see this error anywhere? /--/ Daniel J.

Cannot boot off hardrive and help?

2001-02-04 Thread Daniel Mashao
I cannot boot from my harddrive. I made sure the root partition is bootable according to fdisk. This is a new Debian install using potato disks. I can boot (slow) from a diskette. Any ideas? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao

Re: Cannot boot off hardrive and help?

2001-02-04 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sun, 4 Feb 2001, David B. Harris wrote: To quote Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED], # I cannot boot from my harddrive. I made sure the root partition is # bootable according to fdisk. This is a new Debian install using potato # disks. I can boot (slow) from a diskette. The error you get

When Will Python 2.0 be included in Stable?

2001-01-03 Thread Daniel Mashao
When will Python 2.0 be included in a stable Debian distribution? Do we have to use 1.5.2 even when 1.6 and 2.0 is out? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to get the latest Python 2.0 on my system

2000-11-19 Thread Daniel Mashao
Any advice? I would like to get the latest Python 2.0. It is available for *.rpm and I would like to get it on my Debian system. Has anybody tried it? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering

How to instal Xmysql on a debian system?

2000-09-21 Thread Daniel Mashao
How can I install Xmysql on a Debian system? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering[EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town http://www.eleceng.uct.ac.za/~daniel

Where can I find gnumake?

2000-07-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have a program that I want to compile. According to the INSTALL I need to run gnumake. And to my suprise I could not find this program anywhere on the Debian ftp sites. Any help? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao

Re: ISO distribution

2000-02-19 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: check ftp.linuxberg.com /pub/ISO they got isos of most every linux distro out there corel caldera debian suse slackware stormix redhat mandrake etc. Check also: http://linuxos.webprovider.com/; Once one has downloaded and ISO binaries what

Help Disk Crashed: How to rebuilt

2000-02-10 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi, I need help with the following. My disk which had /usr crashed. I was glad that /var and /etc on separate disks were still okay. But well since I am using Debian I have lots of problems. Problem #1 is that apt-get refuses to get new applications because it claims that those applications

Netscape 4.07 problem: Issuer Certificate is invalid

1999-12-26 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have searched netscape.com to no avail and I am hoping someone can help me. I used to and still access a site using netscape 4.03 running some Java scripts program. Now I was foolish to want to install the latest netscape 4.07 and I am very dissappointed. First I see no improvements except

Re: lpr

1999-12-06 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Eric Hagglund wrote: I have not been able to get my printer to print. I What printer package are you using? Are you using something like apsfilter or magicfilter? The problem you are describing seems to have somthing to do with dos vs linuix termination. I remember reading

Help with HP CD-writer 7100

1999-12-05 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to get the beast to work but I am unsuccessful anyone out there know how to get it to work so I can record CD's? I get the following messages during booting paride: epat registered as protocol 0 pcd: pcd

How to install pine on slink from source

1999-11-17 Thread Daniel Mashao
I once did it, but I forgot what I did. Searching the archives I could not find pine installation messages. Anyone remember? I just can't get used to mutt. It smells too much like vi and I find vi hard. /--/ Daniel J.

Somebody is hacking me; what to do?

1999-11-12 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am getting emails from some fool saying Ifwewerehackerswedownyourdumbass which means If we were hackers we down your dumb ass The emails are generated from within my system. The problem started when I logged into one of my old machines and ran last -10. I was suprised to see a user by

SCSI problem

1999-10-12 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to install Debian on an old machine (Pentium) but the installation stops after detecting the SCSI hardrive. I have searched the old messages on Debian and found differing views as to what one should do to get it to install. I was wondering if the final solution has been found? The

Trying Java

1999-08-02 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to learn Java and the linux system seemed a good environment. So I got hold of a tutorial that showed how to test javac and java programs. I installed, via apt, jdk1.1 and jdk1.1-dev. Everytime I run javac I get no error messages and nothing works. I trioed to see what javac was and

Help find man pages for Libc functions +

1999-07-05 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi, I once had a problem moving from bo to slink. Many packages were removed and had to be reinstalled. One of the things that got lost is the documentation on C functions. For example I used to run man strcpy and the documentation of the function strcpy will be displayed, now it does not work.

Beware apt

1999-05-12 Thread Daniel Mashao
Yesterday I had to re-install a lot of packages as my system became 'unusable'. The problem began when I tried to fix Star Office after upgrading. I think my system was slink/potato but I couldn't tell the percentage of each system. Anyway I thought one way to ensure that the system works is to

Re: chmod

1999-05-12 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Johan Pettersson wrote: Hi! I have mounted a vfat partion (/dev/hda1 /win vfat defaults 0 2) But I can not change permissions under /win! Have I missed something in fstab or is it something else ? Is it set read/writable by everyone or just root? Are you trying to

RE: Beware apt

1999-05-12 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 12 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: On 12-May-99 Daniel Mashao wrote: rebuild it one app at the time. Which commands did you use with apt-get? apt-get -f install libc6 There is some discussion in todays emails on the list about upgrading to libc6_2.2.1 or something and how it breaks

StarOffice no longer works after upgrading to Slink

1999-05-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
Any help? Unlike the tough guys who have problems with SO in potato, I have a problem with SO in slink. It worked fine in my previous hamm/slink setting, now it just Aborts. I have tried some of the suggestions I have seen for potato but they do not work. Any ideas?

Now Star Office does not work after upgrading,

1999-05-10 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have checked the recent list messages about StarOffice not working after upgrading but they all seem different from mine. In my case it just says Abort and nothing. Any ideas? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao

Help with apt

1999-05-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
I cannot use apt-get at all. It seems to be working but then complains about a package that it cannot install. It says I must install it first then remove it. I cannot install the said package (gnotepad+) as the installer (dpkg) refuses. And finally I am in the chicken and egg problem. I have

Debian Maintainers Food for thought

1999-05-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
Subject: Help with apt I cannot use apt-get at all. It seems to be working but then complains about a package that it cannot install. It says I must install it first then remove it. I cannot install the said package (gnotepad+) as the installer (dpkg) refuses. And finally I am in the chicken and

Re: star office

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 31 Mar 1999, Bud Rogers wrote: setenv SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50 true I read somewhere that using that fix caused problems with other programs. Have you seen this? None that I have seen. I also read the same thing but I have not seen any program that reacts badly to it. The other option is

Re: [OffTopic] OSS word processor projects?

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: I know about PW (Pathetic Writer which is part of SIAG) and AbiWord (a GTK project), but I'm curious to know if there are any other WP projects in existence out there, especially if one of the goals is being able to read and write MS Word

Re: need to scan drive thoroughly

1999-04-01 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: Hello, well, if any of you are wondering, I was able to get debian installed on the system by low level formatting the IDE drive from BIOS (LILO kept giving crc errors upon uncompressing Linux). Now I have another problem...anything that I download

Re: star office

1999-03-31 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: Hi, I am having some problem with Star Office 5.0, could someone shed some light on the situation? Apparently when I try to update the mail box Star Office start to freeze up my computer. What's happening is that my CPU is being overloaded

Re: Anybody have the time to help a newbie?

1999-03-31 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Ok. I have a copy of Debian on disk. I am attempting to install it on an IBM PS/2 386. When I boot up using the rescue floppy, I can set up to the point where it asks me to partition the hard drive. I select next, and I get an error

RE: star office

1999-03-31 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Shawn Nguyen wrote: I am using an S3 graphics card. I guess I'm out of luck huh? Thanks for the info though even though I find it kind of strange that that would be the case. I guess I should do some research to see if there's any kind of fix for this problem. No

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 23 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: Daniel Mashao writes: Is there any way to send the output of pppd to a file so I can debug what is happenning. Sure. Put this in your script: echo Running /etc/ppp/running and the string 'Running' will appear in the file /etc/ppp/running

Re: Compaq ESS1887 sound and Linux?

1999-03-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Hogland, Thomas E. wrote: Am getting ready to reinstall onto my shiny empty 6G drive in a Compaq Presario 4840, and would like to avoid the only problem I had last time - the sound wouldn't work. No playing CD's :-( It auto-recognized the ATI Rage Pro AGP, the Compaq DVD,

Re: My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-23 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 22 Mar 1999, John Hasler wrote: Daniel Mashao writes: My ip-up.d directory is not executed when pppd wakes up. Pppd runs those scripts with stdout and stderr redirected to /dev/null. Thanks for responding. But why don't I see the programs running? I even put in xload script that runs

My ip-ip.d directory not executed

1999-03-22 Thread Daniel Mashao
My ip-up.d directory is not executed when pppd wakes up. How can I debug this condition. I have tried putting in simple things like xload in the directory but they do not get executed. I am able to execute the contents of the directory if I run ./ip-up file in the /etc/ppp directory but not when

Funny netscape problem (How to debug and solve)

1999-03-19 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have a funny nestcape problem on my home machine. i installed netscape as root and have two accounts (one me and the other my wife's). As me (daniel) I can run netscape without problem, but I cannot run netscape as root nor can my wife run it as all. It dies with bus error. 1. How can i debug

Re: Please help RTL 8029

1999-03-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Piotr Perko wrote: Hello, I'M LOOking for drivers for that Eternet device for Linux Slackware 2.0.34. Please help me - i don't know where i can find it. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Piotter. THX I do not know anything about Slackware but use NE2000

Re: Remote Unix printer - Permissions

1999-03-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 15 Mar 1999, John Stevenson wrote: Hello, I am running a linux print server that is working very nicely with win95 clients (using samba) but am having trouble connecting to the printer from linux clients. I have read the printing howto (see snippet below) and it refers to the

Re: I always have to log in as root!?

1999-02-17 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote: I have installed Linux and it works just fine, if I log in as root. When I log in as a 'normal' user a lot of thing don't work. For example I can't use the pon command when I am not the root. I also can't start X11 when I am not the root.

Help: Cannot remove or upgrade 'gnotepad+'

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have a problem with 'gnotepad+'. For some reason I cannot remove the application. vitasat# dpkg --remove gnotepad+ dpkg: error processing gnotepad+ (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal.

Re: XF86SETUP Help needed...

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
Try to install X on the minimum specifications first and try to improve it. That is do not select the big numbers but just the smaller ones E.g. try to get 640x400 mode working first by underspecifying the capabilities of your system. Also make sure that only your Xserver is installed. It is

RE: RealTek 8029 PCI pnp Ethernet card

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 15 Feb 1999, Shaleh wrote: On 15-Feb-99 David Webster wrote: Any guesses as to what driver to use for this card since it is not directly supported? Try NE2000 PCI. That is how I am using it on my system.

Help with on-board sound chip

1999-02-15 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am having trouble tryimng to get sound card installed on my home PC with an onboard sound card. Windows reports that it is ES1938 with PCI IO BASE D400. 'lspci' gives the following response 00:0d.0 Multimedia audio controller: ESS Technology: Unknown device 1969 The card works in Windoze. I

Help with two packages that refuse to install .. dependencies

1999-02-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
Since the GNU has selected windowmaker as whatever I have tried to install it on my system. The latest Debian version is 0.20 although there are RPMs for newer versions. Anyway my problem is in trying to install wmakerconf and wmakerconf-data. wmakerconf-data says it cannot install/configure

Re: installing modules for parallel port

1999-01-27 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Paul Nathan Puri wrote: I'm trying to set up my parallel port so that my printer will work properly. That should be simple to do. Just enable the parallel printer options. I compiled 2.2 so that all this stuff is in modules that I would now have to insmod. How do I do

Re: Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

1999-01-26 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Jan 26, 1999 at 02:36:22PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: I am also a Pine user and last year tried out Mutt for a while. What I found was that Mutt did not handle mail sent to a lot of users at the same time very well. I regularly send mail

Would like to drop Pine for Mutt

1999-01-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
I would like to drop pine to move to mutt but my main problem is that mutt does not seem to have a folder listing like pine. I like the folder listing as it allows me to move through all my folders and see if they have new messages. I don't like pine anymore. It gives me bad feeling that they

Re: Help. System dies after 4-5 hours with message: Aiee ...

1998-12-25 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Jim Foltz wrote: Daniel, I think this is a kernel issue, and more specifically related to multiprocessing (using more than a single cpu.) You might ask in the kernel discussion group or mailing list. Thanks for the suggestion. I have searched on the web for Aiee

Help. System dies after 4-5 hours with message: Aiee ...

1998-12-24 Thread Daniel Mashao
My one system dies after some time with message: Aiee: scheduling in interrupt 00125379. Anyone has idea where to look for help. -Daniel /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering

How to mount read a cd created on windows NT

1998-12-22 Thread Daniel Mashao
How can I mount and read a CD created on windows NT. I have parallel port HP cdriter. I could not install it on Debian so the easiest was to copy stuff to my fat partition ad then dual boot into NT and copy the files from there to the CD. I did that, but I cannot mount it on Debian.

Re: hard drive error message

1998-12-21 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, iodine wrote: Just from memory.. next time you reboot that pc.. goto your bios setup.. and make sure that you have IDE POWER DOWN turned off.. as if you have it on and APM stuff not in your kernel, this will cause such problems I believe... Personally I not played

hard drive error message

1998-12-20 Thread Daniel Mashao
Any advice of what does the following error message mean hda:hda: set_multmode: status=0x51 {DriveReady SeekComplete Error} hda: set_multmode: error=0x04 {DriveStatusError} Is my hardrive dying? /--/

Any one using voice modems (mailbox) on Debian with US Robotics Modem

1998-12-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am looking for tips of how to get US Robotics Sportster Voice modem to work as a voicemail system. I have to software to get it work in Windows but I do not want to go that route. /--/ Daniel J. Mashao

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

1998-12-10 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, rick wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: What do the following errors mean: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763, sector=103023 0 end_request: I/O error,

Help with Hard drive error messages

1998-12-09 Thread Daniel Mashao
What do the following errors mean: hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: dma_intr: error=0x40 { UncorrectableError }, LBAsect=1640763, sector=103023 0 end_request: I/O error, dev 03:06, sector 1030230 hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda:

Re: Help with Hard drive error messages

1998-12-09 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 9 Dec 1998, John Stevenson wrote: I have been experiencing the same problem with my hard drive. I believe the problem is that is is simply reaching the end of its life as I have had it running solid for the last year and have had it for 3 years before that. Daniel Mashao wrote

Somehow I lost include files such as /usr/include/stdio.h

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Mashao
Some how I managed to lose these files. Where are they so I can get them back into /usr/include? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape

Re: Somehow I lost include files such as /usr/include/stdio.h

1998-12-02 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: Some how I managed to lose these files. Where are they so I can get them back into /usr/include? Spoke too early. The answers is in lib6c-dev packages. I apparently lost the files when I upgraded to slink libc6*u version since it was the only one

Interesting Problem (PCMCIA ethernet and modem)

1998-12-01 Thread Daniel Mashao
After some struggles I was able to install a PCMCIA ethernet card. It is working wonderfully. Unfortunately intslling it affected my modem card. Now when I dial using the modem it makes a connection but I can no longer telnet of ping outside. I changed my /etc/init.d/networks file to the old one

Re: can't make Linux bootable

1998-11-22 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 20 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote: At 11:35 AM 11/20/98 -0500, Richard Hall wrote: I did try to run the commands as you describe, and still got 'not found', so, if you suspect the shell, what does that mean? What can I do about it? I would think there is something wrong with the bash

Re: Problems installing ncurses-base

1998-11-19 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote: On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: Any hints what the following error message mean? I am trying to install ncurses-base. dpkg: error processing ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script

Help with booting NT

1998-11-19 Thread Daniel Mashao
I used to boot NT but now I cannot after playing with upgrading my system. I need NT to use SAP R/3 (the only thing I still need from Bill Gates :)) Unfortunately the file /boot/any_d.b was erased. How it was erased I do not know, but all I know is I need that file to be able to boot NT. This is

Re: Help with booting NT

1998-11-19 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: I used to boot NT but now I cannot after playing with upgrading my system. I need NT to use SAP R/3 (the only thing I still need from Bill Gates :)) Unfortunately the file /boot/any_d.b was erased. How it was erased I do not know, but all I know

Re: can't make Linux bootable

1998-11-19 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Richard Hall wrote: I have made it almost all the way through an installation, but I cannot make Linux bootable from the hard disk. The error message I get is /target/sbin/lilo: not found. The file is, in fact, there, but I get the same message even when I try to run

Problems installing ncurses-base

1998-11-18 Thread Daniel Mashao
Any hints what the following error message mean? I am trying to install ncurses-base. dpkg: error processing ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb (--install): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.10.deb How can

How to change the screen depth from 8 to 16

1998-11-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
How does one change the screen depth fro 8 to 16. I tried removing the 8 bit mode but xinit refuses to start. It says the default 8 bit mode is not set. /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering

Re: How to change the screen depth from 8 to 16

1998-11-16 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 16 Nov 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: How does one change the screen depth fro 8 to 16. I tried removing the 8 bit mode but xinit refuses to start. It says the default 8 bit mode is not set. Asked too soon I guess. There is an option that can be specified in the XF86Config file

xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
How can I solve the problems of colors on my system. I installed gnome and it always comes up with pepper noise. Apps such as xearth cannot run as they do not have enough colors. /--/ Daniel J. Mashao

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64 Meg and installing StarOffice crashes my machine too. It crashes everytime I try. I think it damaged my partition somehow. Now its time to get gwp working. which x server are you using? i'm in the process of

RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: The pepper noise is esound loading. The color map issue is probably caused by some programs in GNOME eating colors. Try loading xearth w/o GNOME running and see if that helps. You failed to mention what window manager you are using. it is the window

RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: Does anyone know how many colors I have if the depth is set at 8. Do not say 256 because I am not using that many colors to have 256 colors exhausted. 8bpp == 256 color 16bpp == 16million 32bpp == 32million The problem w/ colormaps is that some

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-12 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: I runs fine here. I am running slink and have tried three different kernels, 2.0.32, 2.0.35, and 2.1.127, all work fine. Maybe you need more video RAM? That thing is a resource pig. damn, i'm running 2.0.35 with a diamond stealth 3d 2000 (4mb

Whatever happenend to the apsfilter package?

1998-11-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
I want to use an apsfilter instead of magicfilter and I cannot find this package. Anyone know why it is no longer in the Debian packages? /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering

Unable to open an initial console error

1998-11-09 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to transplant a Debian Linux disk to another formerly Debian machine. Actually it is from a dual pentium to a single pentium machine. I have been experiencing a lot of crashes with the dual pentium machine so I now decided it is time I moved to a single pentium machine. The kernel

Linux - SMP

1998-11-03 Thread Daniel Mashao
Hi, I have had problems before but now I am running Debian Linux on an SMP machine and it crashes once a week or so. It locks real hard and all I can do is press the on/off switch to get started. I suspected the memory but all the tests I know of do not seem to indicate the problem is with the

Trying to install gnome from slink

1998-10-30 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to install gnome from slink. Using all the 'Basic' packages as shown in http://www.gnome.org/start/getting_debian.shtml; I found myself having to download a lot of packages due to dependencies. Finally I got stuck trying to install libc6_2.0.7u-4.deb with the following message:

Re: Emacs command line option

1998-10-30 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Mika Fischer wrote: Hi! I've got a problem with Emacs. I want it to be started in auto-fill-mode. No problem so far. But I have to use an numeric argument with it. This is not possible with the '-f' CMD-line option. So how can I start Emacs in 'auto-fill-mode 70'?

Re: which X server?

1998-10-30 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, George Bonser wrote: SiS 5797/5798 This chipset is not listed ... any ideas? Try running 'SuperProbe' it may be able to identify the chipset. /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical

Re: Help!

1998-10-08 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Kent West wrote: At 05:04 PM 10/7/1998 -0400, Adrian Gudas wrote: Help! I've installed X, and it works, but the mouse doesn't work (at all). I'm thrashing around like a spastic cat trying to get back into shell, but I can't, and without the mouse, how am I supposed to

Font Issues

1998-10-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
If I use an application requiring too many fonts eg StarOffice I find that starting another application eg. Lynx has problem finding the right fonts. I can solve this simply by killing X and restarting but is there a better way to restore fonts? (This applies to colors too).

Font Issues (fwd)

1998-10-07 Thread Daniel Mashao
Subject: Font Issues If I use an application requiring too many fonts eg StarOffice I find that starting another application eg. Lynx has problem finding the right fonts. I can solve this simply by killing X and restarting but is there a better way to restore fonts? (This applies to colors too).

Thanks pine 4.05 is installed but ...

1998-10-04 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have finally got pine 4.05 installed. I think it is helping me to dislike non-free software. Rigth now it is giving me messages I do not understand. It always complain that Mailbox vulnerable - directory must have 1777 protection. I cannot figure out which directory it is complaining about. I

Pine problems explained but ...

1998-10-04 Thread Daniel Mashao
Finally I found the answer to pine problems with mail message. I hear that they want the spool directory to be world-readable etc. /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering

Installing pine 4.05

1998-10-02 Thread Daniel Mashao
Anybody installed this package from project/experimental? I replaced -ltermcap with -lncurses as suggested elsewhere but still I cannot compile the package becuase it is looking for a crypt() function. Any help? I am having a problem with apps that are color intensive (eg netscape) and font

Color and Fonts Loss

1998-10-01 Thread Daniel Mashao
If I run netscape (or any color or font intensive app) I have problems starting other applications. I have to restart my Xserver to be able to start other applications. Does anybody know of a painless solution? /--/

Re: Installation Issues

1998-09-29 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 25 Sep 1998, Brian Armstrong wrote: I recently installed Debian Linux, the most recent version, and have had difficulty installing Netscape and Staroffice. It seems to need Motif or something similiar. Man pages and readme files have helped my setup of Debian Linux and xwindows.

Anybody got wine to install on hamm?

1998-09-22 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have a circular problem trying to install wine. Wine says it cannot install since libwine is not configured. Libwine would not install since wine is not configured. It is a case of chicken and egg. Any help?

Help with netscape (works fine for everyone except 1 user)

1998-09-08 Thread Daniel Mashao
I have a problem with netscape that only one user cannot run it since yesterday. I have check that it is the same version, I have checked that it uses the same libs (using ldd) as for other users. Butonly for this user it does not work. It just simply aborts and prints Abort. What else can I

Re: Help with netscape (works fine for everyone except 1 user)

1998-09-08 Thread Daniel Mashao
On 8 Sep 1998, Tor Slettnes wrote: Daniel == Daniel Mashao [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Is there a way I can trace why his netscape call is Daniel different. He is not setting any environment variables Daniel that are different from others? Are everyone running off

Problems with upgrading ncurses-base

1998-08-18 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to upgrade my X on a mainly hamm system. I tried to install xbase. It complains that it needs ncurses-base (= 1.9.9g-8.6). So off I download ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.8.deb and tried to install it. The installaltion fails because: dpkg: error processing ncurses-base_1.9.9g-8.8.deb

What a day without the mailing list

1998-08-14 Thread Daniel Mashao
Just suprised to see one email in my Debian folder :) /--/ Daniel J. Mashao Electrical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Cape Town

Re: emacs 20 wont install after upgrading...

1998-08-11 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Keith wrote: I recently upgraded to Debian 2.0 and I can't get emacs 20 to install. Here is the error message I get: Cannot open load file: debian-rundir emacs-install: /usr/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install/emacsen-common emacs20 failed at

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