Linux-Setup Digest #102, Volume #19 Fri, 7 Jul 00 07:13:09 EDT
Contents:
Re: Use of TV-out? (Georg Thimm)
Re: line number in vi (Georg Thimm)
Re: FAQ (kiran)
ATI All-in-Wonder 128 problem - support? ("George Hardy")
DHCP Howto?! (MURVAI Buzogany Laszlo)
Re: FAQ (Oystein Johnsen)
Shaping - Traffic Quota? (MURVAI Buzogany Laszlo)
Configuring Mouse under SuSE 6.4 ("Morten Skaarup Jensen")
Re: Screen Savers, Locking Screen (kiran)
Re: Installing Linux on old 386 (gLiTcH)
Re: apache (gLiTcH)
Re: LINUX & CGI-BIN (gLiTcH)
How to setup more than one dial-up setting in Caldera? (BO)
Re: Graphics card problem
Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that? (Bert)
Re: X locked on login ("Pedro Fonseca")
DHCP ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Re: Getting a working libg++ on Linux (Nick Kew)
Dual boot Linux & Windows 2000 - large disk ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
freezes detecting serial mouse ("intersweat")
Re: DHCP ("intersweat")
Re: Configuring Mouse under SuSE 6.4 (Kevin Croxen)
Ghostscript interpreter (Alex Fitterling)
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From: Georg Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Use of TV-out?
Date: 07 Jul 2000 10:19:34 +0800
Hi!
you may want to check
http://hem.fyristorg.com/henrikj/em8300/
Hope that helps.....
> Hi.
>
> I am helping a friend to install RedHat 6.2 on his machine. However he
> asked, if it is possible to use the TV-out connector on the video card (a
> STB velocity 128). Normal setup of the card is no problem (I have a
> riva128 based card myself), but I had no answer to the TV-out question. I
> looked around in my documentation, and at last I found the man page for
> fbset. It tells me, that fbset is able to turn 'video broadcast' on/off,
> and mentions NTSC and PAL. Is this the way to enable the TV-out connector?
>
> Also he asked about MPEG video players. I know of mpegtv, but is not
> really impressed. Are there any other mpeg video players around out there?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Rasmus B�g Hansen
>
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Dr. Georg Thimm Tel ++65 790 5010
School of MPE, Nanyang Technological University, Fax ++65 791 1859
50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW: http://www.drc.ntu.edu.sg/users/mgeorg
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From: Georg Thimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.admin,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.questions
Subject: Re: line number in vi
Date: 07 Jul 2000 10:24:11 +0800
"Devon Harding" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Easy if you know ;-)
:set number
Cheers,
Georg
> How can I see the line numbers in vi
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Devon
>
>
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Dr. Georg Thimm Tel ++65 790 5010
School of MPE, Nanyang Technological University, Fax ++65 791 1859
50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
WWW: http://www.drc.ntu.edu.sg/users/mgeorg
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From: kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAQ
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 13:53:02 +0530
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, sylvain hutchison wrote:
>Can I get the url for the FAQ??
>
>Thanks.
* http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/faqs/Linux-FAQ/ for faqs (if ur looking
for linux faqs) and
* http://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/ for howtos
Suggestion: Next time u may want to search in google, or some other search
engine. It would list these sites
HTH
Kiran
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From: "George Hardy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: ATI All-in-Wonder 128 problem - support?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 08:26:59 GMT
I have the above mentioned card, and there is very little help for the
RedHat 6.1 user. I have gone to SuSE.com, and gotten the XServer files. I
have put them in usr. I have done a [file] --install on both of them. They
say I need the Rage128 server. looks ok, but I cant figure out how to get
the install to recognize it's there.
Does someone have step-by-step instructions on how to unpackage and install
this video server? Please Help!
George Hardy
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From: MURVAI Buzogany Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: DHCP Howto?!
Date: 7 Jul 2000 08:47:32 GMT
Hi!
I'd need to set up a machine to run a DHCPd on it. But, unfortunately, I didn't
find any resource about it. If there is a DHCP howto, or, whatever, talking
about how to set up a DHCP server, please let me know. ... had a look at the
manpage, but I'd like to read the Howto as well, if this is possible.
THx,
-- scissors --
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: Oystein Johnsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: FAQ
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 08:57:14 GMT
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000 11:29:37 -0700, sylvain hutchison
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can I get the url for the FAQ??
Try www.linuxdoc.org
/\/\/\/\ Oystein Johnsen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] \/\/\/\/
/\/\/\/\ http://www.oystein.johnsen.com \/\/\/\/
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From: MURVAI Buzogany Laszlo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Shaping - Traffic Quota?
Date: 7 Jul 2000 09:06:02 GMT
Hi again!
Another question:
... have a network of cca. 50 machines on a subnet, and a server doing the
firewalling tasks. How can I put a traffic quota on each of the machines?
I have a RH running on the server now, but in a few days I'll install
Debian on it... it's safer. Then will it be a firewalling machine :-)
I read about shapers, but they still have limitations concourning the
bandwidth used by shapers. As I said before, I plan to use Linux on the
server. What kind of software should I use?
THx,
--scissors--
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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From: "Morten Skaarup Jensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Configuring Mouse under SuSE 6.4
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:17:27 +0200
I've just bought a SuSE Linux and installed it. Wow, it actually
autodetected all my hardware (In Windows 98 I need to manually install
drivers for graphics card & sound card) except my cheap mouse (3-button
Chic). Is there any way I can install this mouse, or do I have to buy one
with a brand name?
If I do buy a new mouse, I'd like to be sure it works. I tried borrowing my
mouse from work, but couldn't figure out how to get it to work - the list of
mice to choose from is very short in Yast. If I boot from the CD-rom the
installation program autodetects the mouse no problem.
Basically, my question is:
How do I install a mouse after the installation is complete?
N.B. I am not afraid to use an ASCII editor on system files should this be
necessary.
Thanks in advance
Morten
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From: kiran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.hardware
Subject: Re: Screen Savers, Locking Screen
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 14:55:12 +0530
On Fri, 07 Jul 2000, David Stackis wrote:
>I installed Redhat 5.2 on a box I had laying around. I partitioned my 6.4GB
>hard drive like this...
>/usr = 3GB
>/home = 1.5GB
>/ = 1.5GB (root)
>/ = 127MB (swap)
>
>Everything seems cool except that my screen savers or the locking of my
>workstation seems to be disabled....
>
>What am I missing here?....do I need to configure the screen
>savers?....they're listed....as Forest...ect....
>
>TIA!
>
>David Stackis
>Linux Newbie
>
>
>
>
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Are you trying to invoke the screen saver as root??? in that case workstation
locking would be disabled (probably because ctl-alt-backspace would kill the
xwindow session and the intruder would get root shell access...correct me if i
am wrong folks....)..try locking the screen as a non-root user and reply back...
HTH
Kiran
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 03:29:54 -0500
From: gLiTcH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Installing Linux on old 386
You are not going to get a 386 40 mhz machine to play mp3s, it just won't cut it
As for the actual linux install, older versions of slackware would work for this
type of machine as the installation porgram doesn't take up much ram but it will be
on floppy disk size packages
BJW7TOAEM wrote:
> I have an old 386 40 MHz computer, it has a CDROM drive, floppy and a 200 MB
> hard drive, it has 640 K memory and 3300 K extended memory. I would like to
> install Linux and be able to use it as a mp3 player so I don't drain the system
> resources of my main computer to listen to mp3s. I can't seem to get a recent
> Linux distribution to be able to install on it, it says during booting up that
> it runs out of memory. What are my options, am I living in a dream world
> thinking that this old machine will be able to serve up mp3s? What distribution
> should I use? How do I install Linux without running out of memory? Thanks for
> the input!
>
> John H.
> Twinkling Of An Eye Ministries Web Site
> http://members.aol.com/BJW7TOAEM/index.html
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 03:11:16 -0500
From: gLiTcH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: apache
looking at the apache error_log wouldn't hurt either to make sure it is
really looking to that directory
walter wrote:
> I set up apache as directed by my book. typeing in "http://localhost"
> brings up the startup page provided. however when I type
> "http://localhost/~walterk" or same with a trailing "/" I get a
> message that I do not have permission in that directory. The
> web page I am looking for is "/home/walterk/public_html/index.html"
> It is there, It is set up as read/write for all. I also checked
> the directory tree to make sure I could read and everything looks
> good. I have run it as a user and as root and I still get permission
> errors. The part of the config files that set up "user/public_html"
> were left as default.
>
> what am I doing wrong?
>
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Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 03:30:49 -0500
From: gLiTcH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: LINUX & CGI-BIN
some error messages would be nice
are the scripts executable?
Tom wrote:
> hi, i just installed my new LINUX OS with APACHE for the web server. i
> activated my cgi-bin (for PERL) with linuxconf.
>
> but then my PERL still not running. is anyone out there can advise me
> about this? (any procedure i missed, log file etc.) thanks a lot.
>
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From: BO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: How to setup more than one dial-up setting in Caldera?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:30:04 GMT
Hi,
Iam new to linux. I use Caldera. I would like use multiple ISP's from my
machine. Since iam not residing in USA, my ISP does not appear in the List
and i have to use the "Others" option. But i can connect to only one ISP
using that option. if i have to switch to other ISP, i have to change all
the values(number, DNS address etc) everytime. That is painful. Can you
suggest any solution to that?
Thanks,
Bo
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From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Graphics card problem
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:30:03 GMT
try to run the xfree86 setup on the graphics again and there might be
support for your graphics card. (from root)
Also look under whatever system utilities come with this distribution to
see if there is maybe a custom program to change your graphics and monitor.
I would really reccomend upgrading to a rela version of Linux, like SuSE,
Mandrake, redhat or Caldera since they all have much better graphical
support for this kinda thing.
I hope this helps.
Dominic Williams wrote:
>
> I'm a complete novice! I'm running winlinux, but there are two lines
going
> down the screen, suggesting that it is the wrong driver. Any suggestions
> as to how to change the driver? The card is an 8MB rage pro.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Dominic.
>
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From: Bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To:
comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.misc,comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Shared RAID for mail/web server + load balancer? How do I do that?
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 17:52:39 +0800
Hi!
I need to set up a mail /web server at where I'm working, and after
thinking about it for a while, I thought it better to have a fault
tolerant set up. I sort of managed to determine what bits & pieces I'd
required... but putting it together is entirely another matter!!
I'd appreciate any help, pointers, advice, resources anyone could point
me towards.
The basic stuff are:
2 linux boxes, built-in dual channel SCSI RAID
1 load balancer
1 external RAID
RH Linux 6.2
(Mix well....ugghh)
What i need to do is to have the 2 Linux boxes to be identical, these 2
boxes access 1 set of data on the external raid. ie, there should be
only 1 set of mail app, mailboxes etc.
So these 2 boxes need to have their own OS? Can they share data?
A load balancer will determine which box gets the job etc. for a fault
tolerant setup.
How can I put everything together? Are there any extra special bits that
I require?
Is there a better way of doing this? ie, sharing data on 1 RAID
subsystem is a no-no?
Thanks in advance for your help!!
Bert
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From: "Pedro Fonseca" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: X locked on login
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:45:37 +0100
You have checked if you have killed the process that left the session open,
right? Just asking... If not try $kill -9 <PID>
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"Marco Manzan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> Hi
>
> I started a session on a HP Kayak XU but now the computer is locked, I can
> connect normally via net on it, but I can't use it directly. I'm using Red
Hat
> 5.2 with kde 1.1.2 and kdm the following is the message in
> /var/log/messages.
> May I unlock the machine without rebooting ?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> Jul 7 09:11:46 fthp5 PAM_pwdb[9748]: (kde) session opened for user marco
by
> (uid=0) Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kdm[535]: Server for display :0 terminated
> unexpectedly: 2816 Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: Unable to handle kernel
NULL
> pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5
kernel:
> current->tss.cr3 = 0fdda000, `r3 = 0fdda000 Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel:
*pde
> = 00000000 Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: Oops: 0002
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: CPU: 0
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: EIP: 0010:[<c01ab5a6>]
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: EFLAGS: 00013282
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: eax: cc845020 ebx: 00000001 ecx:
00000009 edx: 00000001
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: esi: cc845020 edi: 00000000 ebp:
00000000 esp: ceec9ee4
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: Process X (pid: 5891, process nr: 42,
stackpage=ceec9000)
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: Stack: ceec8000 ceec9f14 cc845000 00000000
c0110a6e cc845000 ceec9f2c 31eebe53
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: ceec8000 c01b000b 00003216 00000000
ceec9f40 c0110985 ceec9f2c c7461000
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: ceec9f6c 00000010 00000000 c020dcb8
31eebe53 ceec8000 c011057c 00000000
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: Call Trace: [<c0110a6e>] [<c01b000b>]
[<c0110985>] [<c011057c>] [<c012f754>] [<c012faed>] [<c0107b00>]
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 kernel: Code: f3 a5 a1 04 73 26 c0 8b 74 24 10 39 86
c8 00 00 00 74 5b 8b
> Jul 7 09:11:57 fthp5 PAM_pwdb[9748]: (kde) session closed for user marco
> Jul 7 09:11:59 fthp5 kdm[535]: server unexpectedly died
> Jul 7 09:12:14 fthp5 kdm[535]: Server for display :0 can't be started,
session
> disabled
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: DHCP
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 09:48:03 GMT
I have a DHCP running on a linux box and another linux box which
requests its IP adresses (two NICs, eth0 and eth2) from DHCP.
The systems are redhat 6.1, server running kernel 2.2.12-20 and the
client 2.2.16.
The problem is when I try to bring up the second interface I never get
the IP address allocated. For example:
When I start eth2 on the client, on the server in /var/log/messages I
get DHCPDISCOVER, DHCPOFFER, DHCPREQUEST and then DHCPACK messages, the
etherent and IP addresses are correct. When I do ifconfig on the client
eth2 is UP the ethernet address is displayed but there is no IP
address. If I ifup eth2 before eth0 it works and vice versa but I can't
get both at the same time.
TIA
Mark.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nick Kew)
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,gnu.g++.help
Subject: Re: Getting a working libg++ on Linux
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:07:32 +0000
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Nick Kew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...]
>: Is there a gcc/libstdc++/libg++ combination that *should* work?
>
> I was able to get a program which uses the Integer class
> working at the weekend by simply copying *.h, *.hP and *.cc
> files out of the src/ subdir of the latest libg++ (2.8.1a
Thanks for the suggestion, but I tried that some time ago.
Unfortunately doing it with the String and Regex classes - which my
software uses heavily - took me on a long wild goose chase, ending up
with a broken ostrstream and an 'unstable' installation, which is
precisely the trouble I get when I install the whole thing.
I'm sure it has something to do with those dire warnings about libio ;-(
Guess I'll have to switch the server to BSD, and hope nothing else on it
breaks. Hmph .. I know most of the s/w I need is OK, and I suppose sp and
postgres ought to be fine on it, but it's all more work, more testing, ...
--
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Dual boot Linux & Windows 2000 - large disk
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 10:10:24 GMT
For anyone interested, here's how I dual booted SuSe Linux & W2K on a
30 GB IDE disk.
http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html
Any errors or omissions, please let me know. But it worked for me.
--
Bruce Blackshaw
London, UK
www.enterprisedt.com
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From: "intersweat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: freezes detecting serial mouse
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:23:56 +0100
I just tried installing linux(storm: Debian variant) on one of my machines
at home. I have installed it before with varying levels of success but on
this machine it freezes while detecting the serial mouse. I tried finding
info on this problem with no success. Has anyone had this problem or know
how to fix it?
Thanks for you help
intersweat
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From: "intersweat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: DHCP
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:28:10 +0100
Are you trying to put two cards from the same machine on the same subnet?
If so, why? The dhcp server is probably thinking that there are two
machines on the network with the same hostname. If you are trying some sort
of load balancing, virtual card experiment then you need to assign static
ip's..
intersweat
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:8k490h$d92$[EMAIL PROTECTED]...
> I have a DHCP running on a linux box and another linux box which
> requests its IP adresses (two NICs, eth0 and eth2) from DHCP.
> The systems are redhat 6.1, server running kernel 2.2.12-20 and the
> client 2.2.16.
> The problem is when I try to bring up the second interface I never get
> the IP address allocated. For example:
> When I start eth2 on the client, on the server in /var/log/messages I
> get DHCPDISCOVER, DHCPOFFER, DHCPREQUEST and then DHCPACK messages, the
> etherent and IP addresses are correct. When I do ifconfig on the client
> eth2 is UP the ethernet address is displayed but there is no IP
> address. If I ifup eth2 before eth0 it works and vice versa but I can't
> get both at the same time.
>
> TIA
>
> Mark.
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin Croxen)
Subject: Re: Configuring Mouse under SuSE 6.4
Date: 7 Jul 2000 10:24:31 GMT
Run YAST as root. Under "System administration" there is a submenu
on "Integrate hardware into system" then "Mouse Configuration".
If your 3 button el-cheapo mouse uses a com port, try the standard
Microsoft Mouse, and supply the crrect comm port (/dev/ttyS0 = com1,
etc.) If the mouse uses a PS2 connector, try the standard PS2. One of
these should work fine with cheap "clone" mice. If not, then your
likely problem will be a serial address conflict, and prepare to
have some fun with the isapnp utilities and a bit of setserial
command-line experimentation. Check the man pages and how-to's for
both, if it comes to that.
--Kevin
In article <8k46lc$87o$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Morten Skaarup Jensen wrote:
>I've just bought a SuSE Linux and installed it. Wow, it actually
>autodetected all my hardware (In Windows 98 I need to manually install
>drivers for graphics card & sound card) except my cheap mouse (3-button
>Chic). Is there any way I can install this mouse, or do I have to buy one
>with a brand name?
>
>If I do buy a new mouse, I'd like to be sure it works. I tried borrowing my
>mouse from work, but couldn't figure out how to get it to work - the list of
>mice to choose from is very short in Yast. If I boot from the CD-rom the
>installation program autodetects the mouse no problem.
>
>Basically, my question is:
> How do I install a mouse after the installation is complete?
>
>N.B. I am not afraid to use an ASCII editor on system files should this be
>necessary.
>
>Thanks in advance
>
>Morten
>
>
>
>
>
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Fitterling)
Subject: Ghostscript interpreter
Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 12:58:26 +0200
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Having problems to view PS files via ghostscript.... An error
occurs telling me something like "Unkown device X11"... I did post
asnother article about having problems to get ps files embedded in
Lyx... due to common failure in system ? It just came up in my mind..
I updated system at a certain time with different libs... Can it
be that my ghostscript interpreter isn't functional anymore due to that
fact (updating system)...
Do I now need to install and reconfigure my ghostscript interpreter from new?
Please help me...
TIA, Alex
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