Re: SOUND BLASTER 64 PCI EN LINUX

1999-03-10 Thread Alvaro Alea
BUENOS DIAS!!! Y entonces, va Alejandro Jose Jerez y dice ¿Re: SOUND BLASTER 64 PCI EN LINUX? Según tengo entendido, las SBXXX PCI emulan la wavetable por software, no? En Linux, como se come eso? porque los de Creative no están muy por la labor de liberar las especificaciones, no?

Re: LI 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101...

1999-03-10 Thread Han Solo
M. Angel Esteban wrote: Hola! llevo varios días intentando instalar Debian 2.0 en mi máquina, pero al instalar LILO aparece el mensaje del topic hasta el infinito (vaya, u nscroll del cpon llenito de 0 y 1). Hola. Manda el 7etc/lilo.conf así como la configuración exacta de tus discos

Re: Sintonizadora TV BestBuy

1999-03-10 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 03:02:35PM +0100, Area Tecnica, Externo17 dijo: Hola: ___ _ _Recorte de publicidad del Web de Best Buy _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ El Kit Easy TV reproduce TV (y teletexto) a pantalla completa, con una capacidad de programación de hasta 181 canales y 16 canales

Sound Blaster PCI 128

1999-03-10 Thread Pablo Martín
Como puedo usar esta tarjeta en linux. Tengo la Debian 2.0 y desde que la puse no puedo recompilar el Kernel. Gracias por la ayuda

Re: Freebsd

1999-03-10 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
http://www.freebsd.org Jesus. ARG-NIGRO, GABRIEL writes: Conocen de donde sacar informacion y aplicaciones. Saludos. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Jesus M. Gonzalez Barahona | Departamento de

cual es la velocidad para video conferencias

1999-03-10 Thread Ing. Jose Luis Vega
Desearia saber cuales son las velocidades recomendadas para una video conferencia pura o a traves de protocolo IP.

Re: LI 010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101010101...

1999-03-10 Thread M. Angel Esteban
At 22:51 09/03/99 +0100, you wrote: M. Angel Esteban wrote: Hola! llevo varios días intentando instalar Debian 2.0 en mi máquina, pero al instalar LILO aparece el mensaje del topic hasta el infinito (vaya, u nscroll del cpon llenito de 0 y 1). Hola. Manda el 7etc/lilo.conf así como la

RE: modems

1999-03-10 Thread bt
Yo no se mucho de modems, pero tengo entendido de que cualquiera exerterno no da problemas porque como van por el puerto serie (rs-232c)y eso es muy estandar funcionan todos bien. De los modems internos no te puedo decir nada. bt On Wed, 3 Mar 1999, Pablo Cernadas

Re: modems

1999-03-10 Thread homega
[EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Yo no se mucho de modems, pero tengo entendido de que cualquiera exerterno no da problemas porque como van por el puerto serie (rs-232c)y eso es muy estandar funcionan todos bien. Yo no he pillado ninguno, pero entre los externos he leído una y mil veces que

alguien sabe? -local host name (debian1) is not qualified; fix $j in config file

1999-03-10 Thread Jon Noble
Hola, cuando trato de usar sendmail, me sale: WARNING: local host name (debian1) is not qualified; fix $j in config file Tambien me sale esto mismo al usar mail entre usuarios de mi máquina, aunque luego lo envia bien. Alguien sabe dónde tengo que corregir $j? Un saludo

tty con caracteres extranos

1999-03-10 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
A veces, cuando hago un cat de un fichero por error que no contiene texto (esto es, un ejecutable o algo asi) se me queda el terminal hecho una fiesta, como si el juego de caracteres hubiera cambiado. Desde otro terminal mato con kill -9 los procesos que tenga en esa consola e incluso el getty,

Re: Instalar .deb con dselect de fuera del CD de distribucion

1999-03-10 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Hola Santiago. El 08 Mar 1999 a las 05:20PM +0100, Santiago Vila escribio: Puedes usar el método dpkg-multicd que trae la Debian 2.1 (no lo he probado, pero puesto que Debian 2.1 necesita 2 CD-ROMs, puede que te funcione). Use varias veces en mis primeras instalaciones el dpkg-multicd de

Re: Como instalar GNOME

1999-03-10 Thread Andres Seco Hernandez
Pero Gnome no necesita otro gestor de ventanas por debajo de el para correr? (como wm o kde?) El 08 Mar 1998 a las 09:51PM +0100, Lucky escribio: Me han dicho que GNOME es un buen gestor de ventanas y ahora lo tengo, pero son muchos arxivos y no se en que orden van para instalarlos. Me

Re: New

1999-03-10 Thread ktb
Addition one is at http://cart.cheapbytes.com/cgi-bin/cart for $5.99, I don't know if you get support though and maybe the instillation has changed a lot in version two. You might try finding a local Linux user's group in your area and ask someone to come over and help with your installation. I

mp3 encoder packaged for debian?

1999-03-10 Thread Frankie
I've had a look through dselect and I can't seem to find an mp3 encoder. (any number of players, but no recorders). Is there one, or do I have to go to sunsite, find one and roll it myself? frankie -- Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.

System locks on boot!

1999-03-10 Thread Corey Ralph
My system has been running Debian 2.0 fine for several weeks now, but now locks up on boot. It first happened when I was in X and was changing routing, IP addresses etc. The machine locked up solid and I had to power reset it. When it rebooted, it fixed several errors on the drive. It locked up

Python Development Files?

1999-03-10 Thread Russell Rademacher
Hello guys. Now I ran into a little problem which is a real bummer. Is there supposed to be an development package for python for debian for I sure cannot find it anywhere. Reason I am asking is that I am installing Gnome 1.0 version from tarballs since no deb are made

How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?

1999-03-10 Thread Pablo Longhi Lorenzzoni
Hi Debianers!! I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to connect Internet through ppp0. I

Re: Broken package requires installation of already installedpackage

1999-03-10 Thread Kent West
At 10:56 AM 3/10/1999 +1100, Shao Zhang wrote: Kent West wrote: I've got a hamm system: my /etc/apt/sources.list is pointing to ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian stable main contrib non-free I've recently run apt-get upgrade, and now when I go to dselect and do the Install option, I get the error:

Re: Problem with dselect

1999-03-10 Thread Martin Bialasinski
JC == Jean-Georges Carbonnier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JC - Somebody told me that probably the iso9660 file system is JC configured as a module but I couldn't do anything wiyh the insmod JC command. May be I don't do it well. First check /var/log/messages, if /dev/hdb really is your CDROM

Package available: xmeter (rstat display for X)

1999-03-10 Thread Bo Branten
The program xmeter (rstat display for X) is available as a Debian package for slink and older dists. Until it gets included officially it is available from: http://www.ing.umu.se/~bosse/debian new debian package, version 2.0. size 19780 bytes: control archive= 809 bytes. 635 bytes,

Package available: minfo (GNU Info file browser for X)

1999-03-10 Thread Bo Branten
The program minfo (GNU Info file browser for X) is available as a Debian package for slink and older dists. Until it gets included officially it is available from: http://www.ing.umu.se/~bosse/debian new debian package, version 2.0. size 37500 bytes: control archive= 1157 bytes. 853

Re: IRC stuff (was: bitchx (sucks!))

1999-03-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 03:40:22PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: I would try talking to them, inviting them to participate in whatever the channels mission is, what else could I do? Then you don't understand the nature of these people. It is like going into alt.nuke-the-usa (I think that is

nfs private/non-private ips permission denied problem

1999-03-10 Thread Martin Anderberg
Hi! I have the following setup: box1: eth0: 194.47.xxx.xx2 eth1: 192.168.0.1 box2: eth0: 194.47.xxx.xx3 eth1: 192.168.0.2 box1 and box is connected via the eth1 interfaces. box1 acts as nfs-server and box2 should be the client. The private lan works. NFS sofware installed is the

Re: IRC stuff (was: bitchx (sucks!))

1999-03-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 01:16:08 +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Then you don't understand the nature of these people. It is like going into alt.nuke-the-usa (I think that is it) and trying to rationally discuss topics with anyone there. No, it

Quake 2 - not a perl script?

1999-03-10 Thread Peter Ludwig
I've just gotten Quake 2, and the startup script in /usr/games returns the following error message :- Not a perl script at /usr/games/quake2 line 1. Anyone know what's going on here? I've just upgraded most of my sytsem to slink, and I waited to install Quake 2 until after I did the upgrade...

Re: rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent

1999-03-10 Thread servis
*- On 9 Mar, George Bonser wrote about Re: rc.local - What is the Debian Eqivalent On 9 Mar 1999, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: /etc/rc.boot is wrong, /etc/rcS.d is wrong and /sbin/setup.sh is definitely very very wrong. Programs in thoise places will be executed way too early, before

Re: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-03-10 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
I'd like to know more about this too. NatePuri Certified Law Student Debian GNU/Linux Monk McGeorge School of Law [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ompages.com On Mon, 8 Mar 1999, Oz Dror wrote: Hi I amgoing to have SDSL connected to my private network (192.168.0.x) I have 3com (3905b Net card). I

Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
The main partition of my laptop is at 96%. It is a 1gig partition. I have two others on this same machine. What can I do to move stuff to these other partitions so that my 1st partition will not be so loaded down. I would like to install more software there? What directory trees can safely be

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread servis
*- On 9 Mar, Paul Nathan Puri wrote about Maximal Mount Count The main partition of my laptop is at 96%. It is a 1gig partition. I have two others on this same machine. What can I do to move stuff to these other partitions so that my 1st partition will not be so loaded down. I would

Re: kdm

1999-03-10 Thread Alec Smith
Difference is kdm is for starting the KDE environment only. xdm starts a more traditional setup using fvwm2, windowmaker, or whichever you prefer. At 03:31 PM 3/9/99 -0600, Craig T. Hancock wrote: What eactly is the difference between kdm and xdm is it eaiser to configure or better security

lock user account after 3 bad logins?

1999-03-10 Thread Eliezer Figueroa
how do I can specify how many times a user can write a bad password before the system disonect that account. And of course after the account is lock, how do I unlock it. Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread Andrei Ivanov
It is a 1gig partition. I have two others on this same machine. Ok, make your partitions ready for linux (ext2 fs, etc). What can I do to move stuff to these other partitions so that my 1st partition will not be so loaded down. I would like to install more software there? Then what you

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread Paul Puri
What is the command that I use to mv /usr to /dev/hda2? I tried 'mv /usr /hda2/usr', but that gave me the error, 'mv: cannot move '/usr' across filesystems: Not a regular file. Thank you... Original Message On 3/9/99, 5:52:08 PM, Andrei Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re:

Re: kdm

1999-03-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Alec Smith wrote: Difference is kdm is for starting the KDE environment only. xdm starts a more traditional setup using fvwm2, windowmaker, or whichever you prefer. Actually, that is quite untrue. Kdm provides a menu from which you can

weird dependency error; please help...

1999-03-10 Thread Jesse Evans
Folks, I'm running KDE 1.1 on a Debian slink system. I recently tried to install kpilot, a very nicely done desktop application for the Palm Pilot PDA. The installation failed, claiming a dependency error: -- dpkg: dependency problems

Re: lock user account after 3 bad logins?

1999-03-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Eliezer Figueroa wrote: how do I can specify how many times a user can write a bad password before the system disonect that account. And of course after the account is lock, how do I unlock it. I'm not certain, but I bet shadow

Re: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-03-10 Thread Paul Miller
Ian Keith Setford wrote: I will assume that you are running slink because you did not say. I also assume that the version of netbase you are running is 3.11-xx. Download the netbase package from unstable/Potato (v. 3.12) and your IP aliasing should work normally. For some reason the

upgrade

1999-03-10 Thread Craig T. Hancock
I noticed something , but I ma interested in upgrade to 2.1 but haven't found the time. But today I wanted to get the ytalk package and I left my machine while it was downloading it and when I cam back I noticed that I ma running 2.1 and not 2.0 and I want to know how did this happen.

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread Paul Puri
Original Message On 3/9/99, 6:32:06 PM, Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Maximal Mount Count: Paul Puri wrote: What is the command that I use to mv /usr to /dev/hda2? I tried 'mv /usr /hda2/usr', but that gave me the error, 'mv: cannot move '/usr' across

setup.sh

1999-03-10 Thread Pollywog
I found what it was that cannot be started from /sbin/setup.sh I put the commands: /usr/local/abacus/sentry -tcp /usr/local/abacus/sentry -udp in setup.sh and sentry will not start. I had to put the commands in netbase instead, and I know that they will be overwritten when I upgrade. I was

Re: IP_ALIAS (kernel 2.2.1)

1999-03-10 Thread Oz Dror
I will assume that you are running slink because you did not say. I also assume that the version of netbase you are running is 3.11-xx. Download the netbase package from unstable/Potato (v. 3.12) and your IP aliasing should work normally. For some reason the slink/3.11 version of netbase

EQL question

1999-03-10 Thread Froilan C. Mendoza
Hello! Would like to ask if it's possible to have two or more EQL connections to a server? .. we have one existing EQL connection to our server (using two modems) and we are intending to put up a couple of connections using EQL. Thanks in advanced. Sincerely, Froilan C. Mendoza

Re: More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)

1999-03-10 Thread Jameson Burt
Hello. There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with Unable to open /dev/sdf. strace fdisk /dev/sdf gives open(/dev/sdf, O_RDWR)= -1 ENXIO (Device not

v2.0.10, insmod /dev/scd0

1999-03-10 Thread Elaina Tillinghast
When I boot from the resc1440.bin that came with v1.3.1, my /dev/scd0 can be mounted iso9660. I have now installed v2.0.10 or 2.0r3, the same thing by labeling, from floppy. I keep getting a hint to `insmod driver`. Someone suggested sr_mod which isn't found. I picked scsi cdrom during module

RE: set root execution permission for normal users

1999-03-10 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Mar-99 Conrado Badenas wrote: Hi all! I have just compiled a kernel for parport ZIP drive support, and now I would want to get an automatic way to mount and umount the drive. I have created the next script (/usr/local/bin/mtzip): A better solution is to install the 'sudo' package.

RE: cvs

1999-03-10 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Mar-99 Craig T. Hancock wrote: What are the advantages of using CVS instead of your own complied versions of software cvs is a means of sharing software. By using 'cvs update' you always have the latest version of the code. So in projects were development goes fast and furious, you

RE: Using crontab to update Debian

1999-03-10 Thread Shaleh
On 09-Mar-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, In my country (Brazil) I only have to pay one tax between 0:00 and 6:00 AM independent of call time. I'm start thinking to get my home machine live at night and set crontab to use pon or wvdial (I have two

NIS and passwd

1999-03-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Could anyone please tell me how secure it is when using NIS to share the /etc/passwd file? I have two machines on the network, and due to security reasons, all my passwd files are on one machine(A) only. The other machine is running a ftp server, and I need to get the passwd from

RE: Python Development Files?

1999-03-10 Thread Shaleh
On 10-Mar-99 Russell Rademacher wrote: Hello guys. Now I ran into a little problem which is a real bummer. Is there supposed to be an development package for python for debian for I sure cannot find it anywhere. python-devel. all python packages are python-foo.

RealPlayer

1999-03-10 Thread Alec Smith
I just installed RealPlayer 5 on my Debian 2.1 system. If I start Real manually, I can open and play various clips. However, I have been able to make Netscape open RealPlayer, however it doesn't seem to be passing the URL info from the link. I want to click a RealAudio link, and have RealPlayer

Re: RealPlayer

1999-03-10 Thread Paul Puri
2nd that... I wanna now too Original Message On 3/9/99, 9:15:26 PM, Alec Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RealPlayer: I just installed RealPlayer 5 on my Debian 2.1 system. If I start Real manually, I can open and play various clips. However, I have been able to make Netscape

Re: kdm

1999-03-10 Thread Sergey V Kovalyov
On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Noah L. Meyerhans wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 9 Mar 1999, Alec Smith wrote: Difference is kdm is for starting the KDE environment only. xdm starts a more traditional setup using fvwm2, windowmaker, or whichever you prefer. Actually, that

Re: cvs

1999-03-10 Thread sjb
What are the advantages of using CVS instead of your own complied versions of software sometimes you still need to compile CVS, so that's not what CVS means. It means the software you are downloading is in a VERY developmental stage. Usually new versions of the developer's source is uploaded to

apt error upgrading to 2.1

1999-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
When upgrading Debian 2.0 to 2.1 here with apt, I got Unpacking replacement mime-support ... Preparing to replace mtools 3.8-1 (using mtools_3.9.1-2.deb) ... Unpacking replacement mtools ... Preparing to replace ncurses-term 1.9.9g-8.10 (using ncurses-term_4.2-3.deb) ... Unpacking

Help on writing a server

1999-03-10 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I need to write a server program that can do the following: when user ftps to our server, this program will take their inputed passwd, encrypt it using md5, send it to another machine which has a file /etc/passwd, then on the other machine, it will compare the encrypted passwd, and

Re: apt error upgrading to 2.1

1999-03-10 Thread oneiros
Thus spake Hamish Moffatt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): When upgrading Debian 2.0 to 2.1 here with apt, I got Preparing to replace strace 3.1-13 (using strace_3.1.0.1-8.deb) ... Unpacking replacement strace ... E: Sub-process returned an error code I ran dpkg --pending --configure, which

Re: More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)

1999-03-10 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Jameson Burt wrote: Hello. There are 5 SCSI disks happily running at sda - sde. The 6th disk is accepted as /dev/sdf, as the kernel output after lilo says. But fdisk /dev/sdf fails with Unable to open /dev/sdf. ... You've probably already checked it, but I have often exceeded

Re: apt error upgrading to 2.1

1999-03-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: When upgrading Debian 2.0 to 2.1 here with apt, I got Unpacking replacement mime-support ... Preparing to replace mtools 3.8-1 (using mtools_3.9.1-2.deb) ... Unpacking replacement mtools ... Preparing to replace ncurses-term 1.9.9g-8.10

what's the best html wordprocessor?

1999-03-10 Thread Paul Puri
I've used netscape composer, amaya, emacs (which is more of an html code editor), I'm looking for wysiwyg (word processor type). Now I think soffice's StarWriter is the best around. It acts just like a word processor, it has footnotes, doublespace, etc. It also uses good html. I checked my

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread homega
Paul Puri dixit: Original Message On 3/9/99, 6:32:06 PM, Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: Maximal Mount Count: Paul Puri wrote: What is the command that I use to mv /usr to /dev/hda2? I tried 'mv /usr /hda2/usr', but that gave me the error, 'mv: cannot

Re: Gnome install using apt - error logging in

1999-03-10 Thread sjb
but when I do an apt-get update the update does fine with the debian site, but it gives me an error on the gnome sight. The error is: Error: ftp://ftp.gnome.org dists/released/ Packages process_uri_pair: couldn't log in The ftp.gnome.org site is VERY busy, try one of the mirrors you see

Re: More than 5 SCSI disks? (/dev/sdf: ENXIO)

1999-03-10 Thread Dr. Andreas Wehler
Hello. Is it possible to run 2 Adaptec 2940UW simultaneously? Then we would consider to change Advansys by Adaptec. Thanks. Andreas Wehler -- CAD/CAM straessle GmbHTel.: (+49) 211 - 52740 - 228 Dr.-Ing. Andreas Wehler Fax.: (+49) 211 - 52740 - 280

Re: How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?

1999-03-10 Thread Paul Huygen
Pablo (Spectra) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to connect Internet through ppp0.

Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?

1999-03-10 Thread Paul Puri
Original Message On 3/9/99, 11:55:42 PM, George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?: On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Paul Puri wrote: StarWriter is the best I've seen so far for Linux. The memory needs for this thing can be a bit too high for most

compiling a new kernel ....

1999-03-10 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, i did just upgrade my laptop to potato, noticed that an old 2.2.1 kernel was running and launched compile... but it aborted with the message: erm7:/usr/src/linux# make-kpkg binary ... (cd debian/tmp-source/usr/src/; tar zcf kernel-source-2.2.3.tar.gz kernel-source-2.2.3;\ rm

help!

1999-03-10 Thread LOMBARDO MARCO
hi! i'm marco from italy, and i have a question on the linux os. i need to create a new user with the same privilage of root user, i tried to do these command : adduser --system --group marco passwd marco the system create a new user marco and set the password, but when i tried to login with

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread Mike Merten
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 02:12:48AM +, Paul Puri wrote: What is the command that I use to mv /usr to /dev/hda2? I tried 'mv /usr /hda2/usr', but that gave me the error, 'mv: cannot move '/usr' across filesystems: Not a regular file. Thank you... Actually, what I did was

Re: set root execution permission for normal users

1999-03-10 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Conrado Badenas: I have just compiled a kernel for parport ZIP drive support, and now I would want to get an automatic way to mount and umount the drive. I have created the next script (/usr/local/bin/mtzip): /sbin/modprobe ppa.o /bin/mount /mnt/zip Shell scripts can't be

Re: setup.sh

1999-03-10 Thread Jiri Baum
Pollywog: ... I had to put the commands in netbase instead, and I know that they will be overwritten when I upgrade. No, they won't - netbase is a `conffile', which means if you change it dpkg will ask you what to do. Jiri -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] We'll know the future has arrived when every

Re: How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?

1999-03-10 Thread sjb
I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to connect Internet through ppp0. I already tryed

Re: dvisvga (tmview) can't do resolution more than -d320x200!

1999-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 05:41:01PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: I've just installed dvisvga and discovered that it can't seem to handle resolutions higher than 320x200. Now I have a SVGA card that should be capable of handling 1024x768 --- certainly, this is the resolution of X. When I try I

Re: Broken package requires installation of already installedpackage

1999-03-10 Thread sjb
Sorry, but the following packages are broken - this means they have unmet dependencies: libc6-dev: Depends:libc6 You probably downloaded and installed libc6, but not libc6-dev, so just download and install libc6-dev and make sure it's the same version as libc6 (dpkg -s libc6). Regards Sarel

Re: New Install

1999-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:28:14AM -0600, ktb wrote: If your prompt is a $ you are not logged in as root. This is the regular user Not necessarily true. [8:46pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ su - Password: /local/home/root$ /local/home/root$ /local/home/root$ /local/home/root$ logout [8:46pm]

Re: setup.sh

1999-03-10 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 03:12:37AM -, Pollywog wrote: I found what it was that cannot be started from /sbin/setup.sh I put the commands: /usr/local/abacus/sentry -tcp /usr/local/abacus/sentry -udp in setup.sh and sentry will not start. I had to put the commands in netbase instead,

Re: Using crontab to update Debian

1999-03-10 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
A mirror is much bandwith for me. I didnt test yesterday. I will test tonight when I was at home. Thank you, Paulo Henrique Quoting Shaleh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On 09-Mar-99 Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi Debian users, In my

Kernel Compile #4 - Success!

1999-03-10 Thread Doug Dine
After 3 unsuccessful attempts I have finally succeeded in compiling my new kernel. The sound still doesn't work though. I have an Acer FX 3D sound card in this machine which in it's manual claims to be Sound Blaster compatible and Microsoft sound compatible so I chose those options in the sound

Re: what's the best html wordprocessor?

1999-03-10 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 10 Mar 1999 07:55:56 GMT, Paul Puri wrote: In all honesty, on all platforms, Macromedia's DreamWeaver is the best HTML WYSIWYG editor I've seen, hands down. Of course, it is Windows and ~$300 so I don't think that is exactly what you

installation problems

1999-03-10 Thread Andi Monari
hello everybody! i've got some problems installing debian 2.0 booting from cd rom: boot: (enter) Loading root.bin. Loading linux.. Uncompressing Linux... ran out of data -- System halted What does it mean? My mashine is a k6 233 with 32 MB edo ram, with a seagate 4,3

network help

1999-03-10 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I am trying to set up thi computer at work with Debian. All works fine apart from the network. This is a novell environment. I have set up one computer in a novell environment before and it was fine. however here I have problems. The newtwork card is working OK as far as I can tell. On

Re: RealPlayer

1999-03-10 Thread Frankie
Paul Puri wrote: 2nd that... I wanna now too Original Message On 3/9/99, 9:15:26 PM, Alec Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding RealPlayer: I just installed RealPlayer 5 on my Debian 2.1 system. If I start Real manually, I can open and play various clips. However, I have been

Re: How to get Debian and (argh!) Windows 95 machines linked through null modem?

1999-03-10 Thread Frankie
Paul Huygen wrote: Pablo (Spectra) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a big problem and little time to solve. Can anyone help me? I have to get a Debian (hamm) machine and a (argh!) Windows 95 one linked through a null modem cable using PPP protocol. The Debian machine can be able to

Re: xterm, xhost

1999-03-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting Alec Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Thanks for the info. You wouldn't happen to know what the default XTerm*font: setting is would you? AIUI it is called fixed which is an alias and is translated through /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.alias where I find fixed

Re: I can't believe this

1999-03-10 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have to admit, there were several times even *I* was ready to delete everything Linux on my PC - but my continual displeasure with everything MicroSoft kept me going. Hear Hear I was the same. Michael Beattie ([EMAIL

Re: New Install

1999-03-10 Thread Thomas Köhler
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:28:14AM -0600, ktb wrote: If your prompt is a $ you are not logged in as root. This is the regular user Not necessarily true. [8:46pm] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ su - Password: /local/home/root$ /local/home/root$ logout

SVGA server for Debian 1.3?

1999-03-10 Thread Olof Oberg
Hi, where can I find the SVGA server for Debian 1.3? I have only found libc6 based binaries. Would be very happy if I could get hold of the old binaries. /mill -- # # S-mail: Olof Oberg # [EMAIL PROTECTED] # #

Re: Linux and Partition Magic

1999-03-10 Thread Tom Pfeifer
Bob Nielsen wrote: I have used Partition Magic 4.0 to expand and move a Linux partition and it worked fine. After doing this, I had to boot from a floppy and run LILO before I could boot Linux from LILO, however. I have also had this happen to me. I have contacted PowerQuest about it,

Re: Maximal Mount Count

1999-03-10 Thread homega
Mike Merten dixit: Actually, what I did was something more like this: # mount /dev/hda2 /mnt # cp -a /usr/* /mnt right, /usr/* tells to copy everything inside /usr/, but not the /usr directory name itself. I think a different way to achieve this is: # cp -ax /usr # umount /mnt # rm -r

Gnome 1.0 debs?

1999-03-10 Thread Rick Macdonald
Are there Gnome 1.0 debs yet? I haven't tried Gnome yet. 1.0 seems like the place to start. -- ...RickM...

Re: Debian and Redhat - are most linux users missing the point?

1999-03-10 Thread fockface dickmeat
Your thinking of the personal user, which isn't Linux's strongsuit right now. Corporate customers are looking at the Calderas and RedHatters of the Linux distributions. Without commercial support, they won't even bother to *look* at Debian. Without the attention of the corporate world,

Re: Outgoing port 53 redirected to special port.

1999-03-10 Thread Björn Elwhagen
Thanks for your input on my problem. I've solved the problem by setting up a local DNS that sends querys on port 53. It works well enough and keeps my firewall tight and neat. I could ofcourse use an external DNS as suggested in a private mail, but i think i for some reasons like this solution

killing all processes on a tty

1999-03-10 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! What can I use in order to kill all the processes on a tty using only one command? Something like: killall /dev/ttyS1 ? Thanks! -- p.

Re: virtual private network?

1999-03-10 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 11:29:18AM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: [...] Lee Bradshaw wrote: Hi, I need some software to allow laptop users to connect to machines on our private network (192.168.x.x) from anywhere on the internet. Has anyone used FreeS/WAN, Mobile IP or similar

Re: killing all processes on a tty

1999-03-10 Thread Mirek Kwasniak
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 01:04:19PM +, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! What can I use in order to kill all the processes on a tty using only one command? Something like: killall /dev/ttyS1 ? skill [-signal] [-ivfwn] {tty user command pid} Mirek

Corrupt utmp entries - how to clean up utmp?

1999-03-10 Thread Olaf Rogalsky
For some unknown reason I have a corrupt /var/run/utmp. Running 'who' gives the following output: einstein:rogalsky who joerg:3 Feb 11 16:09 schuetz ttyp2Mar 10 09:52 (:0.0) schuetz :0 Mar 10 09:52 schuetz ttyp3Mar 10 09:52 (:0.0) schuetz :2 Feb 25 14:04 rogalsky

installation problems

1999-03-10 Thread Andi Monari
hello everybody! i've got some problems installing debian 2.0 booting from cd rom: boot: (enter) Loading root.bin. Loading linux.. Uncompressing Linux... ran out of data -- System halted What does it mean? My mashine is a k6 233 with 32 MB edo ram, with a seagate 4,3

German NFS-Server

1999-03-10 Thread Florian 'Papa Flo' Streck
Hallo! Does anybody know a debian-mirror in Germany that I can access via NFS? I already tried the ftp-mirrors but always got a time-out message. Could it be that I just tried the wrong Paths? Or do those servers (ftp.de.debian.org ftp.tu-clausthal.de os.inf.tu-dresden.de) not support NFS? I

Re: New Install

1999-03-10 Thread ktb
As far as I could gather Joe was attempting to install for the first time. I doubt he has messed around with his prompt symbol. Just posting this so Joe doesn't get confused Kent Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Tue, Mar 09, 1999 at 09:28:14AM -0600, ktb wrote: If your prompt is a $ you are not

Re: kdm

1999-03-10 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: There is one very nice feature in kdm in 1.1 that is unfortunately absent in wdm: kdm remembers your last session, when you type your username it switches the menue to the last used session, so that you don't

Re: help! (root user)

1999-03-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting LOMBARDO MARCO ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): hi! i'm marco from italy, and i have a question on the linux os. i need to create a new user with the same privilage of root user, i tried to do these command : AIUI the privileges of root are not a function of the four letters r o o t but of having

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