Re: Diamond MX-300

2000-01-10 Thread Marcelo Ramos
Hola a todos!!! Aquí vuelvo desde Uruguay después de una pausa de varios meses por los estudios. Les deseo a todos muy feliz año 2000 On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:29:36AM -0300, Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo wrote: Alguien sabe de algun parche para el kernel para que me soporte la placa de

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2000-01-10 Thread ORAPOST
The included message could not be delivered to the following invalid mail names. Please verify these names and try them again. Bad name: jcarlosh ---BeginMessage--- Hola a todos!!! Aquí vuelvo desde Uruguay después de una pausa de varios meses por los estudios. Les deseo a todos muy feliz

Re: [YA SE LO QUE PASA...] Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-10 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 09 de enero de 2000 a la(s) 21:09:32 +0100, Manel Marin contaba: Me lo he estado pensando y con opciones tan peligrosas como Umount, Boot, Reboot no me parece apropiado que todo principante utilice la tecla MAGIC... aunque a mi me parece GENIAL!!! También la opción kIll

Especificación de partición vfat

2000-01-10 Thread Emilio Hernández Martín
Hola a todos. Al fin he conseguido actualizar mi kernel de 2.0.36 a 2.2.4 pero no tenía ni idea de que hubiese tantas opciones para configurar y en la mayoría he dejado lo que venía por defecto. Se puede volver a recompilar si es necesario, ¿no? Bueno, lo que a mí principalmente me

Re: [saK] y Recuperar de cuelgue de X y consolas

2000-01-10 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 09 de enero de 2000 a la(s) 22:13:33 +0100, Manel Marin contaba: (Nadie ha sabido decirme que comando usar para reiniciar el modo grafico VGA) El paquete svgatextmode tiene buena pinta. 'man stm': -o Force all standard VGA registers to a known

Re: Especificación de partición vfat

2000-01-10 Thread Jordi
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:41:49AM +0100, Emilio Hernández Martín wrote: que será en type pero no estoy seguro y tampoco sé si bastará con escribir ahí vfat y borrar msdos y ya está. Por favor, ¿me podríais ayudar? Muchas gracias. Te basta con eso, si. Jordi Así como lo tienes ahora,

Re: Starx, xdm y manpages-es

2000-01-10 Thread kynes
Hola a todos, On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 09:58:38PM -, Miguel A. Abarca wrote: 1) ¿Por qué cuando ejecuto 'startx' como usuario normal me sale el siguiente mensaje de error:? Fatal server error: Eso es porque sólo le has dado permiso al root para ejecutarlo. En la segunda linea

Re: CD completo

2000-01-10 Thread kynes
Es solo una idea pero nos pico un pelin y queremos intentarlo... y prefiero saber si es posible antes de descubrir que es imposible y haberme tiradotropecientos años y medio intentándolo... Puedes hacerlo de la misma forma que todas las distribuciones lo hacen, copian un kernel en alguna

Re: CD completo

2000-01-10 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 02:23 AM 2000-01-10 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Es solo una idea pero nos pico un pelin y queremos intentarlo... y prefiero saber si es posible antes de descubrir que es imposible y haberme tiradotropecientos años y medio intentándolo... Puedes hacerlo de la misma forma que todas las

Re: Diamond MX-300

2000-01-10 Thread Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo
Si la placa de sonido es esa. Gracias. Marcelo Ramos wrote: Hola a todos!!! Aquí vuelvo desde Uruguay después de una pausa de varios meses por los estudios. Les deseo a todos muy feliz año 2000 On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 07:29:36AM -0300, Alvarez Ricardo Marcelo wrote: Alguien sabe de

RE: CD completo

2000-01-10 Thread Tejada Lacaci, Antonio
-Mensaje original- De: Raul Gonzalez [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: sábado 8 de enero de 2000 18:51 Para: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Asunto: CD completo Acabo de comprarme el grabador de CD, y hablando con un amigo se nos ocurrió la idea de poner el kernel

Re: CD completo

2000-01-10 Thread Antonio Castro
On Sat, 8 Jan 2000, Raul Gonzalez wrote: Acabo de comprarme el grabador de CD, y hablando con un amigo se nos ocurrió la idea de poner el kernel en un cd para poder arrancar más rapidillo que desde diskette (paso de lilo que si no papi se queja...) Y comentando más la cosa llegamos a

Re: Recomendación proxy

2000-01-10 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 11:53:40AM +0100, Manel Marin wrote: ¿Tiene squid, estando offline, la posibilidad de marcar para bajar paginas de internet y bajarlas en una conexión determinada (y en otras no)? En lo que lo he usado, no. Me explico: mi PC ATX se enciende solito de madrugada se

Problema con SGML

2000-01-10 Thread Manuel Jiménez
No me funciona bien la conversión de un fuente a RTF. Con sgml2rtf uso las opciones -c latin y -l es; no da mensajes de error en el proceso, pero cuando quiero abrir el archivo resultante, no aparacen los caracteres españoles: ni tildes ni eñes. En su lugar [ntilde] o [aacute]... ¿Me podríais

Re: Consulta (1? parte)

2000-01-10 Thread dfm
1º En la web de Debian puedes BUSCAR PAQUETES por NOMBRE. Esto es lo que he encontrado sobre less, espero que te sirva de ayuda. Package: less 332-4.1 A file pager program, similar to more(1) Less is a program similar to more (1), but which allows backward movement in the file as well as

Re: Consulta (1ª parte)

2000-01-10 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 01:19:39PM +0100, Miguel Angel Ordoñez Moya wrote: Me he recogido un disco duro de 250Mb que voy a instalar junto a uno de 300Mb así podré reinstalar debian eligiendo una selección de paquetes (tipo Workstation, ...), pero ¿como reparto los paquetes entre ambos

RE: CD completo

2000-01-10 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
At 08:33 AM 2000-01-10 +0100, Tejada Lacaci, Antonio wrote: [...] Respecto a lo que tienes que meter en la imagen del diskette, léete el bootdisk howto, ahí lo explica todo todito. O echarle una miradita a los boot-floppies de Debian. Los de potato ya están casi listos (por lo menos se puede

Re: CD completo

2000-01-10 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 10:51:28AM +0100, Antonio Castro wrote: Existe una versi?n comercial de eso. Concretamente de SuSE as? que la respuesta es que si es posible. Estar?a muy bien es que Debian tuviera algo as?. Ummm... no estoy seguro, pero por ahí han comentado que Corel Linux

Re: SGML A RTF

2000-01-10 Thread Ivan Andres Hernandez Puga
Bien... he perdido el mail original con la pregunta sobre los problemas de converion de SGML a RTF... A ver con esto: los codigos (segun el abiword) en RTF para eñes y acentuadas serian para: ñ á é í ó ú Ñ Á É Í Ó Ú \'f1 \'e1 \'e9 \'ed \'f3 \'fa \'d1 \'c1 \'c9 \'cd \'d3 \'da En el

apt-get with proxy username and password

2000-01-10 Thread Gareth
G'day all, I am having some problems with the new network setup at work. The powers that be have passed on internet costs to individual sections anin order tinforce this have added a password/username authentication to the web proxy. My problem is how do I get apt-get to use my usend

Re: apt-get with proxy username and password

2000-01-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Gareth wrote: I havtried to use a line like this in the apt.conf http::username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port but nothing seemed to happen. You used the wrong syntax.. acquire::http::proxy http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:port; Jason

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread 2
Why on Earth would u want to??? unless u have a really, really good reason to, don't bother and just have the one superuser. the more superusers u have the more of a security risk you create since it makes available more priveleged accounts for malicious users to hack and do whatever they please

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Robert Marlow (2) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why on Earth would u want to??? Well, I have two superuser accounts on my system: root with default shell bash, and toor with default shell sh. This is very common usage on BSD systems -- if bash becomes corrupted or inaccessible, you can login with

Re: Computer won't start

2000-01-10 Thread Bart Szyszka
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: however unlikely did you try setting the date back before the year2000 ? one of my friend's computers had a similar problem(although not as severe) and when he set the clock back it was ok, i have a 486DX4-100(rather new ~1995) and sofar it hasnt experienced

ftp daemon update requires potato

2000-01-10 Thread Mike Z.
Hello: I'm new to Debian but really like the idea of the distribution and am trying hard to make things work. One thing I find especially troublesome is that the wuftpd that can be installed to slink is a version with a DOS vulnerability that has been published for almost a year. I found a

Re: dependency questions

2000-01-10 Thread dyer
john smith wrote: Hello!, I wanted to install sawmill with slink.when I checked their website, it instructed me that it needs librep, rep-gtk,gtk and imlib so I downloaded some of those and then when I tried to install the first one rep-gtk , it said that it depended on libglib1.2.6 but

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread John Hasler
Arcady Genkin writes: Well, I have two superuser accounts on my system: root with default shell bash, and toor with default shell sh. ... IIRC, bash is almost always dynamically linked, while sh is statically linked. lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Nov 6 19:39 /bin/sh - bash

Re: Computer won't start

2000-01-10 Thread Bart Szyszka
It sounds like a strange ATX problem to me. I had similar things happen before. For whatever reason the switch on my computer doesn't work to power it up. My switch does seem to be working. The power stays on and everything, but it's just that the computer doesn't seem to be doing what the

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Nov 6 19:39 /bin/sh - bash Geez! Thanks for pointing this out, I had no idea. I wonder what would be the rationale for not including a standard sh in a distro... 8-/ Make 'sash' toor's shell. Done. Thanks for

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread John Hasler
Brian Servis writes: If sh - ash and 'things break' then those 'things' should call bash or whatever shell explicitly, and a bug report should be filed against that 'thing' . Yes, of course. However, the gentleman's goal appears to be improved robustness, not Debian debugging. I have had sh

Re: Soft ejects

2000-01-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Brian May wrote: However, I see you are now correct. Now data is written to the disk almost immediately (1 second delay) after it is dirty. This means the developers have put the safety of the disk ahead of performance issues... this is not necessarily the case, from my tests

Re: Adding a superuser

2000-01-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: I need to add a second superuser. No you don't. If you want someone else to have root access, then just give them the root password. If you want someone else to be able to do some root tasks but not really be root, you have two choices. 1) Make the

Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?

2000-01-10 Thread matt garman
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 09:47:44PM -0600, ktb wrote: I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if there is more than 64 MB

Re: www.debian.org very slow indeed?

2000-01-10 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, George Bonser wrote: There is no policy for ensuring that the Packages file on 63.209.15.252 matches the files on 207.69.194.216 so failures are frequent. To avoid the Actually 63.209.15.252 recently had some sort of mirroring problem, it should be fixed now. Otherwise the

Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?

2000-01-10 Thread Scott Henry
k == ktb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: k I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron k processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that k an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if k there is more than 64 MB of RAM

identd -- do I need it?

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
What is utility of identd daemon? Also, is it normail that it restarts once every five minutes or more often? ,[ flom logs ] | [ ... ] | Jan 9 23:09:28 tea identd[14851]: started | Jan 9 23:14:36 tea identd[14938]: started | Jan 9 23:19:44 tea identd[14965]: started | Jan 9 23:24:52 tea

Re: Install help, ne module does not reload on reboot (potato)

2000-01-10 Thread Shaul Karl
Isn't the 8390 module needed as well? Try to insmod it before the ne module. I am trying to install the latest potato I have an ISA NE2000 clone. it worked fine when i booted from the rescue disc. Ieben installed the base system over NFS. It's IO is at 0x280, and

Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?

2000-01-10 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, ktb wrote: processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if there is more than 64 MB of RAM added. On the other hand Ancient problem. Only afflicts Pentiums under about 200

Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?

2000-01-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I'm looking into buying a computer with either a 366 or 400MHz Celeron processor. It has an L2 cache size of 128 Kb. I've read somewhere that an L2 cache under something like 512 kb, will slow down your computer if there is more

Re: www.debian.org very slow indeed?

2000-01-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Carl Fink wrote: : Has anyone else noticed that the main (US) Debian servers have been : remarkably slow lately? Both trying to use the web site, and : ftp.debian.org for apt. The web site is on a different server altogether as far as I know. : I've switched apt to a

Re: www.debian.org very slow indeed?

2000-01-10 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, George Bonser wrote: : On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Carl Fink wrote: : : Has anyone else noticed that the main (US) Debian servers have been : remarkably slow lately? Both trying to use the web site, and : ftp.debian.org for apt. : : I've switched apt to a mirror, but

Re: ftp daemon update requires potato

2000-01-10 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 05:17:36PM -0800, Mike Z. wrote: All I really need is an ftp server (I like wu for various reasons) on a stable system. Why is it that simply upgrading the ftpd would throw my setup into an 'unstable' version? Is this likely to be a problem whenever I install

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-10 Thread Onno Ebbinge
At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote: OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I [snip] I look in my /etc/limits and see a way to restrict just about all those [snip] Where can I find more info on /etc/limits ? Regards, Onno

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-10 Thread Jim B
Should be in your limits man page. If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and /etc/security/limits.conf instead. Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Onno Ebbinge wrote: At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote: OK another issue

Re: exports(5) manpage

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
in slink its in nfs-server .. if you need it you could prob grab it from there .. nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Joseph Heenan wrote: joseph None of my systems (all running unstable) have a man page for joseph /etc/exports - am I missing a package somewhere, or is this a bug? I joseph expected it to

Re: Computer won't start

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
oh, thought u said u were on a 486 ..thats why i suggested that :) nate On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: barts barts barts On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, aphro wrote: barts barts however unlikely did you try setting the date back before the year2000 barts ? one of my friend's computers had a

Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to happen on boot. I have the appropriate lines in conf.modules, but I have a feeling there is some

Re: [Off Topic] Celeron 366 or 400 MHz, 64+ MB RAM?

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
you should have no problems, i cant imagine where you read that.. i am running 466 celerons with 256MB ram, and its _quite_ fast. it may be true that not all of the memory is cached(i can't say wether it is or not). On older i430TX boards(i have one) they could not cache memory beyond 64MB, i

GPM question

2000-01-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
Okay, my mouse (a Logitech 3 button mouse, new) seems to work fine in X, and I know that it is connected to /dev/ttyS0. However, when I issue a gpm command, I get gpm: freopen(stderr) failed I've run the gpm config program many times, and the gpm config file appears to be built properly. In any

Ignore this test...

2000-01-10 Thread Onno Ebbinge
I'm very sorry but I have to do this test. One of my email filter failed and I have to see if they work properly now. I hope you understand... Regards, Onno

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread Jim B
You can put: ifconfig eth0 ip netmask netmask into /etc/init.d/network . You will probably also have to add your route line in there as well. On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote: Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears

Ignore this test...

2000-01-10 Thread Onno Ebbinge
I'm very sorry but I have to do this test. One of my email filter failed and I have to see if they work properly now. I hope you understand... Regards, Onno

Re: identd -- do I need it?

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
it returns the userid of the process, really the only thing that is popular and needs identd is if you use IRC. identd can also be used in combonation with tcp_wrappers to allow/deny certain users, although it is not that secure, ident can easily be spoofed. nate On 9 Jan 2000, Arcady Genkin

[Off Topic] DVD Playback under Debian...

2000-01-10 Thread Ryan Losh
Hello: I know this is not Debian specific, but I was hoping some kind person would help me... I just put together a new AMD Athlon based system. Here's my configuration: 600 Mhz Athlon, MSI mother board, 128M ECC memory, 3dFx Voodoo3 3000 AGP video, Toshiba ATAPI DVD drive,

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
when i want to change network settings to take effect everytime it boots i edit /etc/init.d/network hope you enjoy debian, ive played with a few rh boxes and they about drove me mad. nate On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Paul M. Foster wrote: paulf paulf Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian

AOpen video card question

2000-01-10 Thread Paul M. Foster
I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In almost all cases, X windows worked fine, but when I came out of X windows to a

Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
I'm having problems booting into a fresh installation of potato in my second harddrive. The installation is on /dev/hdc with root in /dev/hdc1. Lilo displays LI and dies there. I tried adding linear to lilo.conf (that helped me once on another computer), but that didn't help. My setup looks sane

XFree86 fixed font

2000-01-10 Thread James Sasitorn
What is the default fixed font used with X? james

Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

2000-01-10 Thread Jim B
You did run /sbin/lilo after making *any* edits to your lilo.conf right? Also, how had you booted when you were making those edits? If /dev/hdc1 was not your root partition at the time (for example, if you had booted off a floppy), I wonder if the wrong lilo.conf was read to write your boot

Re: [Off Topic] DVD Playback under Debian...

2000-01-10 Thread aphro
from what i've read DVD on linux requires hardware playback to work, i read in a mailing list that some people were starting to get the G400 cards working. see: http://linuxvideo.org/ the linux video and dvd project .. nate On Mon, 10 Jan 2000, Ryan Losh wrote: rklosh Hello: rklosh I

Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

2000-01-10 Thread Arcady Genkin
Jim B [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You did run /sbin/lilo after making *any* edits to your lilo.conf right? Yes, I did. Also, how had you booted when you were making those edits? If /dev/hdc1 was not your root partition at the time (for example, if you had booted off a floppy), I wonder if

X broken after fonts/fontserver update

2000-01-10 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
Anyone else is experiencing this problem? Here are the messages that X gives me at startup _FontTransSocketUNIXConnect: Can't connect: errno = 2 failed to set default font path

Re: X broken after fonts/fontserver update

2000-01-10 Thread Eric G . Miller
When I was playing with xfs, I never could get local unix sockets to work vis-a-vis /unix:7100. However, it worked using tcp as tcp/localhost:7100. xfs slows down the system though, so I went back to direct path specification (don't use true type fonts). --

Re: How to recover from crash (urgent for me)

2000-01-10 Thread Jens Guenther
On Sun, Jan 09, 2000 at 03:01:32PM +0100, Fam. Engelen wrote: After having crashed my slink-with-a-bit-potato, the following appears on boot: --- /dev/hda5 contains a fs with errors, check forced. /dev/hda5: Inode 87941 has illegal block(s). UNEXPECTED INCONSISTENCY; RUN fsck MANUALLY.

iprofd: urgent!

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
When starting iprofd I get the message: Version of kernel modem-profile (5) does NOT match version of iprofd (4)! Make sure, you are using the correct version. (Try recompiling iprofd). I'm using a 2.2.13 kernel on Debian 2.1 I guess iprofd in in the isdnutils package, I'm using version 3.0beta2

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Jim B wrote: If you're running potato then you'd probably want to use PAM and /etc/security/limits.conf instead. Look at the files themselves to see how they are set up. I have figured out how to set these limits up well enough, but I have a related question, how can i set

xterm: The icon insists it has a fixed point on the screen.

2000-01-10 Thread Shaul Karl
Package: xterm Version: 3.3.5-2 Package: fvwm Version: 2.2.4-1 Does anybody else have instances in which the xterm icon insists to place itself in a point that is already taken by some other icon? Perhaps it is Netscape or exmh icons fault? I am using Fvwm for WM. - -- System Information

iprofd: urgent!

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I think this mail didn't arrive when I send it last time, so here it is again: When starting iprofd I get the message: Version of kernel modem-profile (5) does NOT match version of iprofd (4)! Make sure, you are using the correct version. (Try recompiling iprofd). I'm using a 2.2.13 kernel on

iprofd: need help quick!

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I think this mail didn't arrive when I send it last time, so here it is again: When starting iprofd I get the message: Version of kernel modem-profile (5) does NOT match version of iprofd (4)! Make sure, you are using the correct version. (Try recompiling iprofd). I'm using a 2.2.13 kernel on

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-10 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: /etc/limits Date: Mon, Jan 10, 2000 at 07:26:19AM +0100 In reply to:Onno Ebbinge Quoting Onno Ebbinge([EMAIL PROTECTED]): | At 06:34 PM 1/9/00 -0500, Jim B wrote: | OK another issue I'm having with setting resource limits. How can I | [snip] | I look in my

Re: Upgrade to potato left Perl 5.004 behind??

2000-01-10 Thread Debian Mail
See the list of packages on the Debian packages page, searching for perl. There is a fake package that allows you to upgrade; I believe you will have upgrade problems if you do not install the fake perl package first. I believe it is called perl-base. It is called perl_5.004.05-2.deb Stef

Perl fake packages

2000-01-10 Thread Debian Mail
I installed the two fake packages perl-base_5.004.05-1.1.deb and perl_5.004.05-2.deb. But still wehn I want to install perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb I get the following error: # dpkg -i perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb dpkg: regarding perl-5.005-base_5.005.03-4.1.deb containing

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread Randy Edwards
Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 This is typically done in the script /etc/init.d/network That script is generated at install when you answer the questions about your

ISDN won't work...

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
ISDN won't work, I get the following messages in syslog, kern.log, isdn.log, ppp.log, dmesg. HiSax: debugging flags card 1 set to 4 isdn: Verbose-Level is 3 isdn: Global Mode running isdn: Verbose-Level is 2 ippp, open, slot: 0, minor: 0, state: ippp_ccp: allocating reset data structure

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread Shaul Karl
You might want to check /usr/doc/sysvinit/examples/network (from the sysvinit package). Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command. Naturally, though, I'd like this to

Re: Ethernet question

2000-01-10 Thread 2
heya, paul have a look in /etc/init.d/network from da bobstopper -Original Message Just transferred over from Red Hat 6.1 to Debian 2.1. My NIC card worked fine in Red Hat and appears to work okay in Debian _if_ I issue an ifconfig eth0 command.

Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread Peter Ross
On 08-Jan-2000, Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lilo must be installed in the MBR of /dev/hda. That is where your BIOS looks to boot your system. change your boot line to look like: boot=/dev/hda This will install LILO in the MBR of /dev/hda. LILO can *boot* things pretty much

Re: Can't boot from a second harddrive (repost)

2000-01-10 Thread Shaul Karl
Attached is my /etc/lilo.conf. I hope it will help. [14:46:02 /tmp]$ cat /etc/lilo.conf # /etc/lilo.conf boot=/dev/hda compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal prompt timeout=50 other=/dev/hda1 label=MS table=/dev/hda image=/vmlinuz label=Linux

Re: AOpen video card question

2000-01-10 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I've got an AOpen PT75 II card that I tried to set up under X. It has an 86C385 chip on it. I tried S3V, SVGA and VGA16 servers, I tried autoprobing it, specifying the chipset, calling it a generic VGA, etc. In almost all cases, X

nisplus package?

2000-01-10 Thread Gerhard Kroder
is ther a debian package for nisplus out already? i haven't seen it so far an want to try it out... gerhard

Re: Standard way to change IP?

2000-01-10 Thread Ronald Tin
On Sat, Jan 08, 2000 at 09:17:05PM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: I find that sometimes I cannot use that interface after the network is changed I get something like network unreachable when I try to ping some hosts on that network. The NIC is fine after a reboot. Most of the time I was

What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread Ron Rademaker
I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. Ron

DPT SmartRaid V cards

2000-01-10 Thread Ronald Tin
Hi, I have been playing with a DPT smartRaid V card for some days, using the driver from their homepage. (the kernel drivers don't seem to work for SmartRaid V?) However, for some reason the Raid V drive doesn't seem to perform very well. It often just stops during disk writes without doing

Re: AOpen video card question

2000-01-10 Thread Marek Habersack
* Phil Brutsche said: capability does it mostly work (in this case, the X screen bulges outward at the sides. This is a fairly common card. I finally replaced it with an older Diamond Stealth 3D 2000. But surely someone has had success setting it up? There is nothing wrong with what

Re: UMAX Scanner

2000-01-10 Thread David Wright
Quoting William T Wilson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Jesse Jacobsen wrote: So do the SCSI UMAX Scanners use a 50-pin connection? Yes. (Wow, wasn't that a waste of bandwidth) My UMAX Astra 1200S uses a DB25. But the DB25 is functionally the same as 50-pin SCSI,

memories

2000-01-10 Thread mcclosk
I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on Saturday. Everything seemed fine to

Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread lorenzo . zampese
LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions (max 4) and located in the first hard drive that usually is /dev/hda . Bye bye. -- Memo - Header --- To: Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Arcady Genkin [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread Ethan Benson
On 10/1/2000 Ron Rademaker wrote: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to do with that. the c

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread ktb
Ron Rademaker wrote: I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with xlib6g-dev) perhaps this c has something to

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Jan, Ron Rademaker wrote about What is this I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? This 'thing' is the reason for some trouble with apt / dpkg (something to do with

Re: What is this????

2000-01-10 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I found this file somewhere: c---r- 1 8224 10280 49, 117 Dec 1 2031 fonts Can anybody tell me what that c is all about??? The c means that it is a character device, e.g. like /dev/tty or /dev/psmouse. However, since the group and user owners of the file seem unknown

Re: umount - URGENT

2000-01-10 Thread Dave Wiard
A better instruction would be to umount /dev/cdrom, since this will almost always be a symlink pointing to your cdrom device. Far more systems use /dev/cdrom for their cdrom devices than use /dev/hdd, because this includes nearly everybody with /dev/hdd, /dev/sdd, /dev/hdsomeotherletter and

TI5300 sound card

2000-01-10 Thread erasmo perez
hello thanks for reading this mail which sound controller must i choose in the kernel configuration for making work the following notebook ? Texas Instruments 5300 which has a: Media Vision Pro Audio De Luxe/ProSonic/Jazz 16 sound card i pressume that the sound controller is

Re: memories

2000-01-10 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 10 Jan, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about memories I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM.

Re: memories

2000-01-10 Thread Gary Hennigan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Debian box which has been rock-solid in the three years I've been using it. Currently it's slink with the 2.0.38 kernel (custom-compiled) and just a few extras in /usr/local. No other OS. Until recently it had just 32MB of RAM. I added 64 more on Saturday.

Re: LI for LILO or loading from a second harddrive

2000-01-10 Thread Howard Mann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LILO can only boot Opertive Systems located in primary partitions (max 4) and located in the first hard drive that usually is /dev/hda . Bye bye. This is not correct as stated. Here is an informative item : http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/12/166/ I quote a

Training

2000-01-10 Thread JoHanna Levison
What kind of training does Debian offer and at what cost? Thanks, JoHanna

Re: Re: ps/2

2000-01-10 Thread |{.f|.
Thank you, Succeded. And with xf86config also inserted mouse default as /dev/psaux after that - it works perfectly :-) At 2000.01.09 14:32:00, you wrote: |{.f|. wrote: Can't configure my 2 buttons PS/2 mouse for X windows. In XF96Config file pointer is set to PS/2. Tried with

Re: Computer won't start

2000-01-10 Thread Clyde Wilson
Go into your cpu and check all the ribbon cable connections. Push each one in to insure it is tight. Just one loose connection can keep your system from taking its first breath. On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Bart Szyszka wrote: Hi, I've been having problems in both Debian and Windows, so I'm not

Re: /etc/limits

2000-01-10 Thread Jim B
I asked myself the same question, so I logged into my shell account at a local ISP and took a look at what they use on their FreeBSD machine with 512 MB of RAM: core file size (blocks) unlimited data seg size (kbytes) 22528 file size (blocks) unlimited max locked memory

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