Acentos en nvi
Hola a la lista. Hace algún tiempo, leí un mensaje sobre los acentos en nvi. Ayer haciendo pruebas, exporte la variable de entorno LC_ALL con valor es_ES, y ahora ya veo los acentos y eñes en nvi, incluso ha cambiado el formato de presentación de date. Saludos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Paginador para man
Hola a la lista. ¿Alguien sabe donde o como se configura el man, para que utilice less como paginador? Saludos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
HTTP proxy
Hola a la lista. He visto que el lftp, no soporta HTTP proxy. ¿Sabe alguien donde puedo obtener información sobre como funciona esto? Saludos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Paginador para man
El Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 08:43:48AM +0200, Angel Vicente Perez... Hola a la lista. ¿Alguien sabe donde o como se configura el man, para que utilice less como paginador? Hola, yo tengo esta línea en /etc/profile: export PAGER=less y alias ls='ls -N --color' # ls mostrará latin-1 y color alias less='less -r' # para que ls | less muestre los colores Saludos. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Paginador para man
avicente¿Alguien sabe donde o como se configura el man, para que utilice less como avicentepaginador? Si tiene csh: setenv PAGER less Si bash: PAGER=less; export PAGER Pero Santiago tiene razon. Normalamente el paginador ya es less. Si se apparecio 'more' , alguien lo ha cambio . busces en .cshrc o .bashrc por la palabra 'more' If you don't understand my very bad spanish, ask , and I will write in english. John Lapeyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
SOLVED !!! Problems with pslatex terminal in gnuplot beta347 (pre3.6) in Debian Linux 2.0 (hamm)
Hi All!
I've just solved the problem desribed in my previous message.
It was not related to debian. There is really a bug in the gnuplot
source. I've sent my solution to the gnuplot team, but I would like to
forward it to this group too (and to package's mantainer), to allow for
correction of debian gnuplot package.
Wojtek Zabolotny
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-- Forwarded message --
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 01:01:58 +0200 (EEST)
From: Wojciech Zabolotny [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Problems with pslatex terminal in gnuplot beta347 (pre3.6) in Debian
Linux 2.0 (hamm) (SOLVED !!!)
Hello gnuplot developers!
I have performed some additional experiments with the gnuplot, and my
data. I've linked the gnuplot with electric-fence library to find the
instruction which overwrites the memory.
Below I present the output given by gdb after the failure:
gnuplot set term pstex auxfile
Terminal type set to 'pstex'
Options are 'monochrome dashed rotate auxfile'
gnuplot set output phd_w4_s3_l10_wzneur.nsts.tex
gnuplot load phd_w4_s3_l10_wzneur.nsts.gnuplot
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x80a7cae in PSLATEX_init () at term/pslatex.trm:204
204 strcpy(PSLATEX_psfile + (dotIndex-outstr) + 1,ps);
(gdb) bt
#0 0x80a7cae in PSLATEX_init () at term/pslatex.trm:204
#1 0x808f7ae in term_init () at term.c:325
#2 0x80552b4 in do_plot (plots=0x40120fb8, pcount=3) at graphics.c:1165
#3 0x80779c2 in eval_plots () at plot2d.c:1335
#4 0x80743a7 in plotrequest () at plot2d.c:332
#5 0x804b84f in command () at command.c:539
#6 0x804afd1 in do_line () at command.c:287
#7 0x807209c in load_file (fp=0x4011af98,
name=0xb96c phd_w4_s3_l10_wzneur.nsts.gnuplot, can_do_args=0)
at misc.c:1042
#8 0x804bd70 in command () at command.c:624
#9 0x804afd1 in do_line () at command.c:287
#10 0x804af4f in com_line () at command.c:262
#11 0x8073c25 in main (argc=1, argv=0xbda0) at plot.c:439
When I've analyzed the source in pslatex.trm, I've found following lines:
PSLATEX_psfile = gp_alloc(dotIndex - outstr + 3, pslatex aux filename);
if (PSLATEX_psfile) {
strncpy(PSLATEX_psfile, outstr, dotIndex-outstr+1); /*including .*/
strcpy(PSLATEX_psfile + (dotIndex-outstr) + 1,ps);
The problem is, that strcpy instruction writes three bytes: 'p','s' and
\0. The last byte is written after the end of PSLATEX_psfile buffer,
overwriting another variable... :-(
I have changed the 201st line in pslatex.trm in the following way:
PSLATEX_psfile = gp_alloc(dotIndex - outstr + 4, pslatex aux filename);
Now everything works fine ! :-)
Wojciech Zabolotny
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Re: ATI XPERT@PLAY AGP support
Yes, I have that card and it works beautifully with XFree86 - no problem at all. I have it running at 1024 x 768 with the 32 bit color depth. You need to use the Mach64 server when you install X in Debian 2.0. It has the [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AGP or PCI) listed by name in the list of cards when you run XF86Setup, and the configuration was very straight forward. Good luck, Tom Hi, I'm planning on going from 1.3.1 to 2.0 and figure I'd might as well go for a hardware change to. I just wanted to know whether anyone has any experience with the ATI [EMAIL PROTECTED] AGP video card; I'd appreciate knowing whether this works under debian (particularly under Xfree86). Thanks for your help, and advise. Nebu -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: a couple emacs questions
On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Keith wrote: I would like to know if emacs can automatically change the date and time of when I revise my html docs everytime I save? Yes it can. Just add: !-- hhmts start -- Last modified: Sun Jul 12 09:02:01 GMT+0300 1998 !-- hhmts end -- and every time you'll save emacs will change the time and date. Also I was wondering if it is just me or is emacs easier and faster to operate in than xemacs? Xemacs seems kind of screwy. Everytime I go into it I spend most of my time fumbling around like an idiot. I guess it just takes some getting use to. I was just curious if anyone else prefers emacs over xemacs. I like emacs better. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE HTH, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
What about Sony cdu711 ?
Hi. I'm planning to buy a new CD-ROM drive, and thought about Sony cdu711. When looking in their (Sony's) site, I saw that one of the system requirements is Dos/Win311/Win95/WinNT. I'd like to know whether anyone used this CDROM and how it works under Linux. (BTW: The interface is an ATAPI, and it says that it can work with DOS (but with a special driver) so I think that there should be no problem.) TIA, Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
New Debian User.
I've just purchased a new Dell computer it is a pII 400 with 256 memory 10.4 meg hard drive I would like to put I'm trying to install debian and I'm not having any luck. Could anyone help me? So far I have make the rescue disk and drivers disk and booted with the rescue disk when I try to do the default installation it loads the root.bin and then tries to load the linux but the Boot fails. Please help me I'm stuck with windows! -jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
never mind the recue disk was bad.
My rescue disk was bad, but I would appreciate anyone's help in my setting up of Debian. I'm not real sure how to partion the hard drive. -jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: New Debian User.
On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Mrpeabody wrote: I've just purchased a new Dell computer it is a pII 400 with 256 memory 10.4 meg hard drive I would like to put I'm trying to install debian and ^^^ I hope you meant Gig :) I'm not having any luck. Could anyone help me? So far I have make the rescue disk and drivers disk and booted with the rescue disk when I try to do the default installation it loads the root.bin and then tries to load the linux but the Boot fails. Please help me I'm stuck with windows! -jeff Could you give us some more details, such as when it fails, what you can see, etc. Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: X11 installation problem
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! A few days ago I installed Debian 2.0 and today I tried to install X11R6 (3.3.2.3). When I started preinst.sh I get the message: You appear to have an a.out system. a.out binaries are not available for this release. Please help. I'm very new to this OS. Thanks a lot! jae 'preinst.sh'? Are you trying to install the standard X11 tarball (from XFree86.org maybe?), and not the deb packages of X11? Just use dselect. If you have a CD of Deb 2 , then you'll find the all the deb X11 packages on the CD. Or use dselect with apt/ftp access method, and have dselect download the X packages from ftp.debian.org or a mirror. Just make sure you download from the hamm (or stable) section (/debian/dists/hamm/) on the ftp site. -- Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: a couple emacs questions
Keith wrote: I would like to know if emacs can automatically change the date and time of when I revise my html docs everytime I save? Also I was wondering if it is just me or is emacs easier and faster to operate in than xemacs? Xemacs seems kind of screwy. Everytime I go into it I spend most of my time fumbling around like an idiot. I guess it just takes some getting use to. I was just curious if anyone else prefers emacs over xemacs. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE I don't know... I prefer xemacs; I believe its better for a newbie (like me). Note: Xemacs 20 is much better than Xemacs 19. I think this boils down to personal preference. -- Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: never mind the recue disk was bad.
Mrpeabody wrote: My rescue disk was bad, but I would appreciate anyone's help in my setting up of Debian. I'm not real sure how to partion the hard drive. -jeff Some will tell you to set up 3-4 partitions in a complex setup, but for newbies (and some vets) a two partition setup is easiest. Create one swap partition with 32-128 meg of disk space (the less ram you have the bigger your swap should be), and use the rest of available space for your root partition. Note: if your setting up a multi-user server you may want to consider a more complex setup, but if this is for a single user (you) situation, or for a home pc, a simple 2 partition setup is fine. -- Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Problem mounting a NFS Filesystem
Yes i have compiled the NFS filesystem into the kernel. One day before the problem started all worked fine. As I turned on the computer fsck found an error on the disk, but the file in lost+found had nothing to do with any of the NFS config files. After this I wasn't able to mount the second box anymore. Still got this problem (i didn't work on it because i had no time). Thanks Nico Will Lowe wrote: Do you have the NFS filesystem compiled into your kernel? Will -- | [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/ | |PGP Public Key: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~lowe/index.html#pgpkey| -- |And if you on tight to what you think is your thing | |you may find you're missing all the rest ...| |- Dave Matthews, Best of What's Around | -- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
PLIP Connection to Win95
I have two boxes; call them lin and win. hostnameip address netmask lin 192.168.0.5 255.255.255.0 win 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 I believe that win's network adapter has been properly configured; It can ping it's loopback and its network adapter. After reading the NAG manual section on PLIP connections, I booted lin and did the following: #ifconfig (info on lo displayed; all looked good.) #route add default gw 192.168.0.1 SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable. I also tried: #route add 192.168.0.5and #route add -net 192.168.0.0 Both of these commands yielded the same error msg. This is especially annoying since, while fooling with configuration a few nights ago, lin was able to successfully ping win (although, at that point win was unable to ping lin). Can anyone figure out how to fix this? Thanks for taking the time to read this (yes, I'm a Linux newbie). -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
Steve Lamb writes: On Fri, Jul 31, 1998 at 12:03:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ever try replacing a Motherboard on a win95 system? Yes. In fact, I swapped machines around the HDs to test a theory of mine. That fabulous, great, decent OS loses it's mind! You see, all information about the hardware is kept in the registry files. When the Id's of the old MB (in the registry) don't match the new Id's of the new MB, all H-LL breaks loose. That hell, of course, is that Windows is updating the drivers supplied by the manufacturer(s) for their motherboard. One reboot is all that is Why? I didn't have to update the drivers of Linux. It came up and running. Win95 on the other hand kept on insisting on rebooting the system for each updated driver. needed. I know, like I said, I did it. Swapped a whole machine around the HDs. One machine had Win95 on it, another had Win95 and WinNT. Am I advocating Windows? No. What I am doing is quelling some serious BULLSHIT here. Not serious BS, just personal experiences. IMHO, if your WinXX machines work ok for you, you probably (I'm guessing here) have the latest patches applied to fix the bad bugs (with or without your knowledge). Everytime you load the latest MS product, patches are applied. (Again, my opinion based on experience) Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded Barney on the farm for my daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the Parent's Room segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to whether or not I wanted IE installed. The setup routine announced that it was installing IE (and all necessary support) PERIOD. No 'cancel' buttons available! I prefer Netscape over IE but here goes this official setup program installing unwanted software and 'lord knows' whatever other patches. The unwanted software had nothing to do with the game program and does not have to be present for the game to run. Like you, I did some testing as well 8-) -- -= Sent by Debian 1.3 Linux =- Thomas Kocourek KD4CIK @[EMAIL PROTECTED]@westgac3.dragon.com Remove @_@ for correct Email address --... ...-- ... -.. . -.- -.. - -.-. .. -.- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded Barney on the farm for my daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the Parent's Room segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to whether or not I wanted IE installed. The setup routine announced that it was installing IE (and all necessary support) PERIOD. No 'cancel' buttons I like this actually : I was upgrading a NT4 machine and the upgrade Announced that it needed IE4 before it would do anything, so I was forced to install it even though I had netscape! I ended up downloading something close to 100M to get PPTP on that NT box Incedently it took 5 reboots to get NT4 PPTP capable, I still haven't rebooted my linux machine and it is now pptp capable : Jason -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Install 2.0 via FTP: doesn't like a 28.8 modem the OS/2 partition likes.
Brief summary: In installed from the boot disk, booted to the linux partition, but pon can't create a ppp connection to my ISP to install the rest via FTP. My system: 486DX75, approx 800 meg IDE hard drive (western digital I think), local bus, IDE CD-ROM (which OS/2 insists is a Sony CDU-55D,55E,76E,760E,77E... hey, it works), an IDE (well, ATAPI) zip drive, 3.5 drive A, 5.25 drive B, an 8 bit sound blaster from the dawn of time, a local bus does everything type I/O controller that probably has a garage door opener on it somewhere... The problem component seems to be my generic 28.8 internal modem using 8 bits of a 16 bit ISA slot on COM3 using standard port/IRQ address. (COM1 is built into that controller card, but disabled via jumper. OS/2 detects and used this modem just fine, I'm using it from my recently shrunk (guess why) OS/2 partition to send email.) The debian boot disks went down fine, I have a debian partition installed on partition hd6 (OS/2's useless boot manager, OS/2 itself, linux swap, and linux itself.) It boots from a floppy to get to it, I can login as root and cd around to my heart's content. The pon script exits immediately of course, but ps a says it fired off pppd which in turn fired off chat. After around 30 seconds, chat exits, so does pppd, and I still don't have a connection for dconfig to FTP the rest of the base system through. I copied all my ppp config (user name, password, phone number) info from my OS/2 ppp dialer, where it works, and entered it when prompted by install. Double-checked, it is correct. (I even started over, reformatted and did all seven boot disks again with the same result). I've tried both ATZ and the init string I hacked together way back before I misplaced the modem manual: ATFE1M0C1D2W2. Same result both times. As far as I can tell, it's not even picking up the phone. Drawing on the fragments of unix I know from college (sunos 4) and a little dabbling with AIX at IBM, I did the following, which may be a big red herring for all I know: on the alt-f1 tty: cp /dev/ttyS2 /dev/console on the alt-f2 tty: cp /dev/console /dev/ttyS2 (If there's a dumb terminal program built into the OS, please let me know...) On alt-F2 I can type in ATDT[ENTER] and get the modem to pick up the phone, but only after about a fifteen second delay. It takes about the same amount of time for ATH0[ENTER] to hang up the phone. (Way back in the dark ages I used a 300 baud modem, and it was WAY faster than this response time.) I sometimes (unpredictably) get my commands echoed back to me on the alt-f1 console, and sometimes even a return code. The return code is numeric, despite the fact the long init string (Which sometimes gets echoed back) says to return OK. I dunno what ATZ is supposed to return. I've tried 115k and 57600 port speeds. (Well, in the ppp config file in /usr/sbin/something_or_other. I don't know how to set it manually. I'm installing this to learn, not because I already know it.) I've been banging my head against this for two days. I've read rather a lot of Faq pages. I went through the bug reports for PPP (couldn't find one for the serial package). Um... Help? (Should I go back and try 1.3?) Rob Landley -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
On Sun, Aug 02, 1998 at 01:37:43AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded Barney on the farm for my daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the Parent's Room segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to whether or not I wanted IE installed. The setup routine announced that it was installing IE (and all necessary support) PERIOD. No 'cancel' buttons available! I prefer Netscape over IE but here goes this official setup program installing unwanted software and 'lord knows' whatever other patches. The unwanted software had nothing to do with the game program and does not have to be present for the game to run. It is bullshit like that is why I stopped using WIndows altogether on my personal computer (have to use it at work) and will NEVER run it again (that and distaste for M$ buisness practices...and general low quality) I can understand they migh twant to offer a DEMO (I am sure M$ is willing to kick them a few extra $ to get em to put IE demos on their CDs) but... installin git with no warning? You know...I sometimes wonder how it was I ever became so facinated with Computers before LinuxI thought that bullshit like that was just somethin you have to put up with...not anymore... -Steve -- ** Stephen Carpenter ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** ** [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All authority is quite degrading. -- Oscar Wilde pgp24HN8WPNlO.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 01:37:43 -0400 (EDT), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why? I didn't have to update the drivers of Linux. It came up and running. Win95 on the other hand kept on insisting on rebooting the system for each updated driver. Sure you do. It is just called recompiling the kernel. And Windows didn't insist upon it. It *ASKED* you if you wanted to reboot. Since I knew I had replaced the entire machine around the HD (OS) I told it no until it booted up, then I just it down and restarted. Worked just fine. Just because it prompts you for something doesn't mean you have to say Yes. Ok, let's talk a concrete example: I loaded Barney on the farm for my daughter (Official MS Win95 game for children). The setup routine got to the Parent's Room segment of the installation. I was not given a choice as to whether or not I wanted IE installed. The setup routine announced that it was installing IE (and all necessary support) PERIOD. No 'cancel' buttons available! This is because IE offers something that Netscape doesn't. It allows itself to be intergrated into the program in question. Chances are portions of that program allow you (or your daughter, in this case) to go out onto the web. They didn't build a new browser into it, they used the hooks in IE. No, I don't like it either, but there is an explination for it. Same thing happened to me with Quicken98 Deluxe and I promptly bitched about it. My secret is that I do not run Microsoft applications. I find that the applications are shoddy, poorly written, thought out, implimented and are often incompatible with themselves in their own versions. I run Win95 for games written by other software companies and WinNT for applications written by other software companies. That combonation proves quite stable. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Indenting columns w/ LPR
Several possibilities. Check out enscript, a2ps, a2gs. These all take ascii files and convert to postscript. As I recall they also will give you margins in the process. I do mine in ascii with a special text mode printer entry in /etc/printcap and a special print filter installed. My printer is a Cannon bjc610. This is accomplished by sending control codes to the printer before sending the text. But the filter does it automatically. To do this requires some research into control codes for your printer. The program pr may also work for you, but I find it rather crude and unpredictable. Hope these ideas help. Paul On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Patrick O'Brien wrote: I like to make hard copies of config files to refer to and print them out on 3-hole punched paper. However, I find that the printing starts at the extreme left edge of the paper and 4-5 characters worth get cut out by the holes. I've tried to use the -i switch but it doesn't seem to want to work with my printer. I used magicfilter to set up my HP IIIP, using the enclosed hp3p filter. It prints wonderfully, except for the left margin being so tight to the edge of the paper. The manpage does say that -i may not work with all printers, so ...any ideas? pob /*** Running Debian Linux *** * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 * * W. Paul Mills * Topeka, Kansas, U.S.A. * * EMAIL= [EMAIL PROTECTED] * WWW= http://Mills-USA.com/ * * Bill, I was there several years ago, why would I want to go back? * / -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Using dialog
I want to try out dialog and have read the man page. But I still do not know how to use it. Can somebody send me an example please? Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27 331-46-1310 Suid-Afrika (South Africa) | -- And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say? Luke 6:46 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RealPlayer problem
Hello. I have the following problem. I'm tryin to use Netscape Communicator 4.5 (using Debian package) with RealPlayer 5.0 (using Debian package). Well, Netscape works, and rvplayer /usr/doc/rvplaer/examples/welcome.rm works too. But when I try to look at welcome.rm with Netscape (using my local Apache server), I receive the following message: File compression not cupported. Cannot locate the requested RealAudio Decoder. although plug-in starts in Netscape window. No video no audio of course. Where is the problem? I use Debian 2.0. Thanks. -- Alexey Vyskubov -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: Linus Torvalds interview
Just to add my experiences of win95 into the frey, i have also done the MB swap thing and while after a lot of rebooting in managed to recover, on the other hand my bro's machine is almost identical to mine (only minor differences lijke graphics card, HD make) failed miserable to survive the same swap, it just shows that if you make any major hardware changes best to reinstall. (apart from the fact that windows is a joke) Mind you i do that about once a month to clear out all the crap that builds up, and keep performance up. on a seperate note, any body tried Beos?? Rick -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Matrox G200
Hi all, I am pondering getting a matroz g200 card when it comes out, is this card surported by X, or will it be in the near future? Rick kitty5 Web Design EMAIL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOME - Http://ds.dial.pipex.com/kitty5/design/ [High quality, High impact, Cost Effective Web Design] Personal EMAIL - [EMAIL PROTECTED] HOME - http://welcome.to/kitty5 - http://ds.dial.pipex.com/kitty5/ [Emulation, Raytracing, Linux, Games, PC Music]
Re: Linus Torvalds interview
On 02-Aug-98 Steve Lamb wrote: My secret is that I do not run Microsoft applications. I find that the applications are shoddy, poorly written, thought out, implimented and are often incompatible with themselves in their own versions. I run Win95 for games written by other software companies and WinNT for applications written by other software companies. That combonation proves quite stable. That may be the best thing written on this topic. I agree with the first paragraph from experience, for the most part. Not being an NT user I can't answer for the second, though the principles supposed to underly NT design do seem to be what Win should have been based on in the first place. This is why Linux needs the good applications ported to it: there is no doubt that a lot of the applications available for DOS/Win3.1/Win95 are excellent, and if you need them then you have to find a way of running them. Best wishes to all, Ted. E-Mail: (Ted Harding) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 02-Aug-98 Time: 13:15:38 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Debian and TV
I have... It's called xtvscreen-0.4.3. I downloaded the statical linked version somewhere near the bttv homepage. (Sorry but forgot where it was exactly.) The source comes with bttv (in the XTV subdirectory) but needs motif lib to compile. Maybe you can compile with lesstiff, but i didn work when i tried it last time (witch was about 1/98). Good luck, Ramin Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am nearly at my wits end. Who has got a TV program for Linux working?? I have kwintv sources, xwintv sources and the bttv sources. the bttv stuff worked fine, kwintv has errors in the source, and xwintv doesnt like debian's qt packaging. HELP!! Please! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
New Debian user's reaction to X
I just installed Debian on a friend's machine, a computer junkie but full-blown Linux newbie. For the sake of his reactions, I thought I'd give y'all his impressions of Debian. This guy previously had RedHat installed on his machine. He loved RedHat's installation and GUI nature but couldn't get anything to work. I explained to him that in the way that Win95 hides users from the real workings of the OS (i.e. DOS) RedHat sort of hides users from real Unix and the text config files that run the OS. While the idea of editing text config files isn't new for him, what did surprise him was Debian's X installation. He was mildly appalled at Debian's X installation. My priority was to get his IP masquerading and basic networking functions working and I wanted to leave configuring X to him (after all, you've got to jump in somewhere!;-). Still, the mysteries of X are somewhat overwhelming (e.g. what's a RAMDAC and which one do I have?). I'd rather leave someone to figure out Samba or colorizing your prompt than to leave them without a slick, working X configuration. I don't mean this as a knock or anything, but this one guy was pleased with Debian (and will continue to run it, he said) but felt that Debian's X installation needed a *lot* of work. -- Regards,|Debian GNU/__ o http://www.debian.org . | / /__ _ _ _ _ __ __ Randy | / /__ / / / \// //_// \ \/ / ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) |// /_/ /_/\/ /___/ /_/\_\ http://www.golgotha.net |...because lockups are for convicts... Tech. Coord./Teacher|What is or why Linux? Click on the below: http://www8.zdnet.com/pcmag/pctech/content/16/13/os1613.001.html -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Using dialog
On Sat, Aug 01, 1998 at 10:28:23PM +0200, Johann Spies wrote ... I want to try out dialog and have read the man page. But I still do not know how to use it. Can somebody send me an example please? #!/bin/sh # dialog --ckear -msgbox 'An example for\na message box\n.' 7 20 # delete blue background dialog -clear For more examples, mail me. Dominik. -- Dominik Rothert E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Fingerprint: 9993 45D6 804F E54F 0B1E 366E 0F95 8235 8269 57C0 PGP Fingerprint: 76 8D 3A CC 83 D8 B0 27 40 F1 D2 C5 A9 3F E9 68 -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Output of Anacron job
Hi, probably as a result of the fact that I have sh - ash symlink now instead of sh - bash, I got the following email today: Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.weekly' Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 09:10:44 -0400 usage: kill [-l] [-sig] pid ... None of the scripts in /etc/cron.weekly has kill inside, but lpr script calls /etc/init.d/lpd restart which in turn has the following line: kill $(pidof lpd) Is this the offending line? Thanks. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PC Card Modem and Printer Recommendations
On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 10:55:54AM -0700, Justin Liu wrote: Are multifunction devices worth it, or should I get separate scanner/fax/copiers? Thanks, - justin I think separate devices will be much easier for you to get working with linux. I had an HP OJ 350. It worked pretty well as a fax, but I never tried connecting a computer to it. I tried the new laserjet combo that is based on the 6L printer. The HP sales rep (who just happened to be in the store that day) said it would work with unix 6L drivers. Wrong. It's a winprinter. The fax and copy were much nicer than the inkjet machines, but I already had a 4L printer, so I really couldn't justify keeping it unless I could replace my old printer. I've got a xerox 450c now. Xerox software tech support said that they don't support unix, but the 450c would work with hp550c drivers. I tried one afternoon but couldn't get it working. I liked the control panel (on the unit, nothing to do with windows) better on the hp systems. Check out the linux driver for hp officejet webpage http://hpoj.bst.tj/ to see what they've come up with lately. I'd like an automatic document feeder as well as flatbed scanner/copier capability. I think the hp1175 has these features, but I don't know about drivers yet. I'm starting to think it might be better to have a separate fax/modem, laser printer, scanner(any affordable flatbed scanners with feeders?), and possibly a color inkjet printer. Add a combination keypad/LCD display attached to a serial port (and some software) and you have your own multifunction device. -- Lee Bradshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] (preferred) Alantro Communications [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: touching file dates
I'm punching this back out in case it was somehow missed in the flood. Any answers other than pulling a file list from the FTP site, printing it out, then manually touching the dates of hundreds of files one at a time? On 29 Jul 98 at 0:33, debian-user@lists.debian.org wrote: I pulled most of the HAMM binaries via ftp under Win95. Now that I have installed HAMM and moved the files to a proper set of directories under my ext2fs the file dates are the dates I pulled them down, NOT the dates from the ftp site where I got them (ftp.de.debian.org). Now that I'm trying to mirror the binaries with fmirror, it wants to get EVERYTHING because the file dayes are so mismatched. I've set up my config files to ignore the file time/date if its within at least roughly seconds ;-) but I'd rather correct the dates on my system without downloading the whole 800+meg (at 33.6) again. Any way to touch file dates to match those on a remote (ftp -- no login) system? Gerald V. Livingston II Gerald V. Livingston II '69 Bug -- AirBall -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
GNOME 0.20
How can I make GNOME 0.20 working? I installed all the necessary packages. Now what file do I need to edit? /etc/X11/window-managers or my $HOME/.xinitrc? The apps are working fine (e.g. Eeyes, gnome-help-browser) Thanks in advance. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: GNOME 0.20
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 23:34:06 +0800 (PHT), Richard L. Alhama wrote: How can I make GNOME 0.20 working? I installed all the necessary packages. Now what file do I need to edit? /etc/X11/window-managers or my $HOME/.xinitrc? The apps are working fine (e.g. Eeyes, gnome-help-browser) Then it is working. Gnome isn't a window manager or anything of the sort. Consider it more like a library that other things are built upon. So if you want Gnome features you need to get Gnome aware applications, window managers, etc. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my opinions! ---+- -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: ASUS P2B-S and Debian
nebu . [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | along with my video card upgrade, I want to get a new motherboard and am | thinking of the Asus p2b-s (onboard scsi based on AIC-7890). Has anyone | used debian with this board? The 7890 support is still pretty rough around the edges. I don't believe the 7890 chipset is supported in any released kernels. You have to patch it first and even then the support is limited. I'd ask in the aic7xxx mailing list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) for specifics. Don't let the name fool you. It's for both FreeBSD and Linux. Gary -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
printop problem....
Hello all, I am running debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) I have been having some problems printing (I have an HP Officejet 600) I am using the deskjet filter in magicfilter, and it works okay, but still not perfectly... I want a GUI printer controller (similar to Printer mananger in win3.1), and I heard that printop is the way to go...so I installed the deb package, but when I try to run it, I get the following message... wish: error in loading shared libraries libtiff.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Any ideas? Is printop really the way to go, or am I barking up the wrong tree? Thanks in advance, Rich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: GNOME 0.20
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 2 Aug 1998 23:34:06 +0800 (PHT), Richard L. Alhama wrote: How can I make GNOME 0.20 working? I installed all the necessary packages. Now what file do I need to edit? /etc/X11/window-managers or my $HOME/.xinitrc? The apps are working fine (e.g. Eeyes, gnome-help-browser) Then it is working. Gnome isn't a window manager or anything of the sort. Consider it more like a library that other things are built upon. So if you want Gnome features you need to get Gnome aware applications, window managers, etc. Yup I know that's window-manager independent. But what I was trying to ask was I can't get the cute taskbar to appear on my desktop. Is that a taskbar? It's my 1st time running gnome. Please excuse me if I asked incorrectly. I can't write english efficiently. /\ Richard L. Alhama, Technical Support / \--, .o` /= ,,'' \/ Cyberspace Laoag,ISP ``,,http://www2.cyberspace.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood! --The Jargon File *'' -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
XDM / KDM problem...
Hello all, I am running debian 2.0 with KDE (relaltively new user)... I recently upgraded all of my X11 packages, and somehow ended up with XDM loading automatically on boot... the thing is, I would really rather not be forced into Xwindow on bootup, and would prefer to be able to start it (as I always have before) using startx or whatever... How can I disable XDM (i.e., turn it off)? On a related note, what, if any, are the benefits of XDM - am I just missing something? I really like to do most of my work outside of Xwindow... is there a way to get out of Xwindow if XDM is turned on? Also, IF I continue to use this setup, how do I change to using KDM as opposed to XDM? Thanks in advance, Rich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
KDE games problem...
Hello all, I am using debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) When I login as me, I can access the KDE games However, when I login as root, and try to run a game, I get the message could not execute program ___ Any ideas? I thought root could run anything? Thanks in advance, Rich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
X11 video problem...
Hello all, I am running debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user)... I have an ATI 3D Rage II+DVD, and have set up that card in my XF86Setup... (using Mach 64 driver) Everything works great, EXCEPT when I try to run Xwindow in anything higher than 8bpp - when I do, it looks good except for a thin (about 1/2 inch) vertical strip of waveryness about 3 inches from the left edge of the screen that only appears over images (i.e., cannot see it over a plain colored background) Any ideas? Thanks in advance, Rich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: New Debian user's reaction to X
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Debian's X installation needed a *lot* of work. Which one? The text based one (xf86config) or the graphical one (XF86Setup)? -- Ian Lynagh -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Installation Assistance (was Re: never mind the recue disk was bad.)
My rescue disk was bad, but I would appreciate anyone's help in my setting up of Debian. I'm not real sure how to partion the hard drive. -jeff Jeff, I am in just about the same state that you are for installation. I've sucessfully installed it once alreaday, but when I went on to the FTP portion I messed up and selected WAY too many files... but then I went back and read install.txt (which was one of quite a few files that I downloaded overnight) It's 30 pages, but it really covers the installation portion quite well. I reformatted it to fit with my Word Processor and have pronted it out. I also printed out dselect.beginner.txt and have both those references together. If you want to keep your current partition of Win95 / 98, you will need a passive partition manager, which will resize any partition without destroying it. Be warned that it is not 100% fool-proof and you'll definitely want to backup anything on your computer that Dell didn't send master disks/CD-Rom's for. I have one such program called FIPS, which I have from a Slackware Linux CD I have here at the house. If you can't find it, e-mail me and I'll send it to you in one way or another, it's a small freeware program. Good Luck! Hatton - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
New Debian FTP Installation Suggestions?
As I mentioned in my pervious e-mail, I have just set up the Debian base and am getting to the FTP part. I've done this one time before but something messed up and I ran out of disk space (!) I had a 405 meg drive (/dev/hdc1) set up as / (root) and a 128 meg drive split into one 16 meg swap drive (/dev/hdd2) and the rest just sort of floating as /secdrive (spare space). (/dev/hdd1) I reconfigured this to run the smaller partition as / (/dev/hdd1), kept /dev/hdd2 as my swap drive, and mounted /dev/hdc1 at my /usr which should give me a lot more space for downloading and installing different modules. My question is, for a first time installation, I want to play with X11, I want to have all the tools necessary for the 'net, and that's about it. My Linux'ing is primarially for playing around, and since I've been a net junkie for going on 6 years, that's the toys I want to have. Also, I tried installing LILO from the boot installation and it didn't work, and booting from the floppy takes somewhere around 3 or 4 minutes. LILO is installable later, isin't it, or am I stuck using a boot floppy to get to /dev/hdc and /dev/hdd since they're my secondary master and slave on my IDE bus. Thanks for your help! Hatton - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
recopying the base system file for Debian 1.3
I think that some of my system has gotten deleted. I think it happened a while ago when I was playing around with rm -r logged in as root. I have since wised up and don't do such foolish things. The system seems to work pretty well except that I cannot get some programs to install like Pine or Elm. I think that some of my system is missing and was wondering if there is an easy way to reinstall all the base system files without screwing up my system. I am running Debian 1.3 and would like to some day run 2.0, but I don't want to do anything serious like that until I get my system in order. -- Thanks, Keith MCNE You only get one chance at life, but if you do it right, you only need one. Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.naples.net/~nfn11988/linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: GNOME 0.20
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: How can I make GNOME 0.20 working? I installed all the necessary packages. Now what file do I need to edit? /etc/X11/window-managers or my $HOME/.xinitrc? The apps are working fine (e.g. Eeyes, gnome-help-browser) Thanks in advance. You can run gnome-session, which will automatically launch some programs. You can then save your X session with the save-session command; but it will only work on child processes of gnome-session that are session aware. Try: windowmanager exec gnome-session in you .Xsession. You can also run 'panel' on its own if you want. I don't know if the Gnome Debian packages have 'gmc'. There is also an intro to Gnome document that may be installed - try loading the help browser. There will be a new Gnome release next week, I don't know how long it will take to get Debian-packaged. It should have a lot of enhancements and bugfixes. Havoc -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: XDM / KDM problem...
This may be kind of extreme, but I can get out of XWindows (xdm) using the Ctr-Alt-BackSpace sequence that forces a reset. Then, at some critical point during the reset, you can use the LeftAlt-RightArrow sequence to switch to a different tty. Debian 1.3 user Xwindow... is there a way to get out of Xwindow if XDM is turned on? __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
AGP Video Card
I have used and installed suse's Xserver now. It seems to be working fine. I.e it recognizes my video card and gives me good resolution. Only thing is it seems i have a virtual display or something because when i ut my mouse on the edges of the screen it scrolls around. Is there a way to make your display only the size of the screen and not larger and crooable all aover? If I had known this before IJoel Keating started, I would have been a plumber-Albert Einstein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
RE: PLIP Connection to Win95
Lindsay: Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I think you missed an important detail; This is a PLIP connection (parallel port IP); there is no network card. The network adapters are drivers. Anyhow, I was able to set up lin with the following: #ifconfig plip1 192.168.0.5 pointopoint 192.168.0.1 #route add default dev plip1 and was then able to ping 192.168.0.5 (lin pinging its own plip adapter), but when lin pinged 192.168.0.1 (win's network adapter) it timed out. Similarly, when I did c:\windowsping 192.168.0.5 (win pinging lin) it also timed out. I'm guessing it could be one of two things: 1) I am using an incorrect windows driver 2) Lin is too slow and I need to change the timing (I read about that somewhere). I'm using the dialup networking adapter #2 (DUN#2)in windows (upgraded version 1.2); this is the same driver that does direct-cable connection. IP addresses and netmasks seem to have been set appropriately; win can ping itself and its network adapter (driver). The features of this driver, however, seem to be poorly documented. A few nights ago, before upgrading the dialup networking adapter in win, I had been able to ping lin--win (using the Ndis2 driver). The new DUN#2 supposedly has 32bit NDIS support (Ndis2 is 16) , so I have a feeling I might be on the right track here. I tried asking around in the Windows chat rooms, but no one has a clue. My Linux box is quite slow; it was built from spare parts (some of which came from the trash). It is an AMD '386 w/5MB RAM (very slow, indeed). Perhaps the slowness of lin is responsible for the ping time-out. Any ideas? Thanks again for answering. --David P.S. In case you are wondering: PLIP is compiled into my kernel; LP support is not. -Original Message- From: Lindsay Allen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 02, 1998 5:50 AM To: David Karlin Subject: Re: PLIP Connection to Win95 On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, David Karlin wrote: I have two boxes; call them lin and win. hostnameip address netmask lin 192.168.0.5 255.255.255.0 win 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 I believe that win's network adapter has been properly configured; It can ping it's loopback and its network adapter. Neither of these means that things are correct. After reading the NAG manual section on PLIP connections, I booted lin and did the following: #ifconfig (info on lo displayed; all looked good.) #route add default gw 192.168.0.1 SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable. You don't need the default route command unless you have a gateway. Try route add -n 192.168.0.0Oh, I see below that you did this. I also tried: #route add 192.168.0.5and #route add -net 192.168.0.0 Both of these commands yielded the same error msg. This is especially annoying since, while fooling with configuration a few nights ago, lin was able to successfully ping win (although, at that point win was unable to ping lin). Can anyone figure out how to fix this? Thanks for taking the time to read this (yes, I'm a Linux newbie). All this assumes that your ethernet card is loaded correctly. If you need more help send the output of ifconfigand route -n commands. If the card is not loaded check /etc/conf.modules and do a depmod -a as root. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8 316 2486modem +61 8 364-9832 32S, 116E vk6lj =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
New User
Hey, I just installed Debian, and would like a few questions answered. First of all, where can I get X Windows? Second, where can I get drivers for all of my hardware? Third and final question, How do I configure my LAN card, Debian says it cannot see the network. Thanks, in a few months I will be able to participate greatly in this list. ~ ___ __ |__) | ||__) |\ |_||__) [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.brack.org -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: GNOME 0.20
On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Richard L. Alhama wrote: Yup I know that's window-manager independent. But what I was trying to ask was I can't get the cute taskbar to appear on my desktop. Is that a taskbar? It's my 1st time running gnome. It's not a taskbar, but it's everything else! :-) Someday maybe it will be a taskbar. Right now it is basically a launcher to run programs. You can use it in either start-menu style (a menu of stuff to launch) or icon-style (icons you single-click to launch programs). Or both. It also swallows applications and has applets that do various little things. For example there's a CPU load applet, and a desktop pager applet if your window manager supports it, and some fun applets like Wanda the fish and a sliding tiles game. The latest version to be released this week has several different modes, one spans the whole screen, one shrinks to fit the contained applets. You can have as many panels as you want and you can have panels that fold into other panels (drawers). You can end up with a panel full of panels that themselves contain panels etc. until you run out of screen space - compeletely useless, but pretty fun. Havoc -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: KDE games problem...
Richard Evans Hartman wrote: Hello all, I am using debian 2.0 with KDE (relatively new linux user) It may be a matter of your path for the root user. I believe you need /usr/games included in the path to run the KDE games. Take a look at the file .bash_profile in the /root directory to see and edit the path for root - assuming you use bash. Tom Type set When I login as me, I can access the KDE games However, when I login as root, and try to run a game, I get the message could not execute program ___ Any ideas? I thought root could run anything? Thanks in advance, Rich -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
bad backspace
I just recently got X working moderately well on my computer. I can't seem to get the backspace or delete key to work though. When i type them it only beeps and complains and doesn't let me erase anything Does anyone have any fixes or ideas what might be wrong? Oh, i have a Dell ergonomic keyboard and in xf86config i selected standard U.S. keyboard. Thakns for any help you can give. If I had known this before IJoel Keating started, I would have been a plumber-Albert Einstein -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Installation Assistance (was Re: never mind the recue disk was bad.)
On Sun, 2 Aug 1998, C. Hatton Humphrey wrote: [ snip ] : master disks/CD-Rom's for. I have one such program called FIPS, which I : have from a Slackware Linux CD I have here at the house. If you can't find : it, e-mail me and I'll send it to you in one way or another, it's a small : freeware program. FIPS can be found in the tools/ directory on the FTP site - I'd guess it's on most mirrors and CDs as well. -- Nathan Norman MidcoNet - 410 South Phillips Avenue - Sioux Falls, SD 57104 mailto://[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.midco.net finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] for PGP Key: (0xA33B86E9) -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Virtual Desktop in X HELP
Hi As you will get form this I am definatley a NEWBIE, I am having a problem shutting off the Virtual desktop in X I just want all my desktop in one viewing area... I am running a Diamond 3d2000 and a Princeton monitor (ultra 15) amd I am using th eSVGA Xserver.. All help will be greatley appreciated! Rick Smith -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Error when partitionig my hard drive.
I have a computer that came with windows 98 on it. I want to paritition the drive and put linux on it but when I try to partition the drive using debian basic install on the rescue disk it shows that my only drive is dev/hda and when I try to paritition it I get a FATAL ERROR: Bad Primary Partition. -jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
only root can hear sound..?
I've got something of a catch 22 going with regard to rvplayer and netscape, and the oss sound driver. I loaded the oss sound driver for my 2.0 config and it works nicely, but for root only. play -v /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/sounds/Snicker.au results in: /dev/dsp: Permission denied I can't run netscape as root (a security issue) and I can't hear audio as a user. Rvplayer works only under root root as well. I can start it up as a user, but can't hear anything, presumably because of th permissions problem. Thanx for help on this matter. Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
vi
Hi, all Do you know whether debian has vi editor. How about latex? Thanks. Zheng Wang Department of Statistics and Applied Probability University of California, Santa Barbara E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; http://www.pstat.ucsb.edu/~zwang -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: vi
Do you know whether debian has vi editor. How about latex? Sure, both are available. Different vi's are in vim (my favorite), nvi, elvis packages. And latex is in tetex-* packages. Alex Y. -- _ _( )_ ( (o___ +---+ | _ 7 |Alexander Yukhimets| \()| http://pages.nyu.edu/~aqy6633/ | / \ \ +---+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Diamond Supra Express PNP internal modem , Linux , and you.
Can someone please tell me if it is possible to use above modem with Linux. Thank you for your assistance. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: XDM / KDM problem...
Well, that is a bit extreme. don't worry about shutting down the X server. when the tty on which the X server is running is active, you can switch to other tty's by using Control-LeftAlt-Fx, where x is the number of a different tty (presumably a text console). in response to the original question, if you still don't want xdm to start when the machine is booted, simply edit /etc/X11/config and change the line which says 'start-xdm' to 'no-start-xdm' (or just comment the darn thing out). finally, i have no idea how to do change to kdm. sorry. -alan Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote (Sun, 02 Aug 1998 10:28:53 PDT ): | |This may be kind of extreme, but I can get out of XWindows (xdm) |using the Ctr-Alt-BackSpace sequence that forces a reset. Then, at |some critical point during the reset, you can use the LeftAlt-RightArrow |sequence to switch to a different tty. | |Debian 1.3 user | |Xwindow... is there a way to get out of Xwindow if XDM is turned |on? | | | |__ |Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com | | |-- |Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev /null | -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: PLIP Connection to Win95
On: Sat, 1 Aug 1998 21:45:58 -0600 David Karlin writes: I have two boxes; call them lin and win. hostnameip address netmask lin 192.168.0.5 255.255.255.0 win 192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0 I believe that win's network adapter has been properly configured; It can ping it's loopback and its network adapter. After reading the NAG manual section on PLIP connections, I booted lin and did the following: #ifconfig (info on lo displayed; all looked good.) Well, there is a interface for the plip missing. #route add default gw 192.168.0.1 SIOCADDRT: Network is unreachable. I you just have the loopback interface, there is no way for your computer to reach the 192.168.0.0 network. I haven't used plip so far, but a command sequence like: ifconfig plip1 192.168.0.5 pointopoint 192.168.0.1 route add default gw 192.168.0.1 should do it (note, you can substitute the ip addresses by their symbolic name if you want). I have found this information in my printed copy of NAG, you should look at chapter 5 (Configuring TCP/IP Networking), section The PLIP Interface, pp 69f. Torsten -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Netscape won't invoke rvplayer.
Got the user access to audio working. Thanx. Now, how do you get Netscape to invoke the rvplayer when I click on a realaudio clip? I installed both Netscape and rvplayer using the Debian package installers. First Netscape and then rvplayer, if that matters. Thanx in advance, Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: only root can hear sound..?
I've got something of a catch 22 going with regard to rvplayer and netscape, and the oss sound driver. I loaded the oss sound driver for my 2.0 config and it works nicely, but for root only. play -v /usr/lib/xemacs-20.4/etc/sounds/Snicker.au results in: /dev/dsp: Permission denied I can't run netscape as root (a security issue) and I can't hear audio as a user. Rvplayer works only under root root as well. I can start it up as a user, but can't hear anything, presumably because of th permissions problem. Thanx for help on this matter. try 'chmod a+rw /dev/dsp' as root HTH -- +Peter Granroth+ Microsoft is NOT the answer + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] + Microsoft is the question + + http://193.10.242.45 + The answer is NO+ -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Fwd: help I get an error when I try to parition the my hard drive.
-Forwarded message from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mrpeabody)- Received: (qmail 2541 invoked by uid 38); 2 Aug 1998 18:24:23 - Received: (qmail 2526 invoked by uid 38); 2 Aug 1998 18:24:22 - Date: 2 Aug 1998 18:24:22 - X-From_:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Aug 2 13:24:21 1998 X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Received: (qmail 2333 invoked from network); 2 Aug 1998 18:23:52 - Received: from animal.mindframe.com ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) by murphy.novare.net with SMTP; 2 Aug 1998 18:23:52 - Received: from mindframe.com (mrpeabody.mindframe.com [199.199.116.36]) by animal.mindframe.com (8.8.7/8.6.9) with ESMTP id NAA27981 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 13:23:52 -0500 Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old-Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 13:28:02 -0500 From: Mrpeabody [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: help I get an error when I try to parition the my hard drive. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Diagnostic: Already on the subscriber list X-Diagnostic: 891 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 32746 [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Envelope-To: debian-user-request Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Diagnostic: Help message sent to user I have a computer that came with windows 98 on it. I want to paritition the drive and put linux on it but when I try to partition the drive using debian basic install on the rescue disk it shows that my only drive is dev/hda and when I try to paritition it I get a FATAL ERROR: Bad Primary Partition. -jeff -End of forwarded message- -- A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
sh -- ash problems (was Re: Output of Anacron job)
Hi, Alexander == Alexander Yukhimets [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander Hi, probably as a result of the fact that I have sh - Alexander ash symlink now instead of sh - bash, I got the Alexander following email today: Alexander Subject: Output of Anacron job `cron.weekly' Date: Sun, 2 Alexander Aug 1998 09:10:44 -0400 Alexander usage: kill [-l] [-sig] pid ... Same here. And these are the problems I have so far: When I`m offline: $ poff usage: kill [-l] [-sig] pid ... dselect -- Install: Updating package status cache...done Checking system integrity...ok The following packages have been kept back lsof bzip2 xlib6 metamail svgalibg1 ircii xbase login xlib6g-dev xaw3dg ncurses-base xfnt75 xfntbase libg++27 xmanpages gettext xserver-s3 dpkg-ftp xfnt100 emacs20-el emacs20 ncurses-bin libc5 ncurses3.4 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 24 not upgraded. Press enter to continue. read: arg count installation script returned error exit status 2. Press RETURN to continue. -- Deniz Dogan -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Error when partitionig my hard drive.
Isn't there a DOS utility that will allow you take a chunk of your DOS partition and make it available to Linux. I think it is called cfdisk. I think you have to free up space on your drive for linux. If you don't want Windows 98 than just fdisk it and than Linux will use all the free space for it's partition. I have a computer that came with windows 98 on it. I want to paritition the drive and put linux on it but when I try to partition the drive using debian basic install on the rescue disk it shows that my only drive is dev/hda and when I try to paritition it I get a FATAL ERROR: Bad Primary Partition. -jeff -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- I hope that helps, Keith MCNE You only get one chance at life, but if you do it right, you only need one. Debian GNU/Linuxhttp://www.naples.net/~nfn11988/linux -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Netscape won't invoke rvplayer.
Edward J Young wrote: Got the user access to audio working. Thanx. Now, how do you get Netscape to invoke the rvplayer when I click on a realaudio clip? I installed both Netscape and rvplayer using the Debian package installers. First Netscape and then rvplayer, if that matters. Thanx in advance, Ed -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null I had a similar problem when I first installed realplayer. After some sniffing around I found that I had a MIME type to deal with real audio as plugin but the MIME type to deal with other realaudio streams was missing. Be sure you have an entry in the menu: Edit/Pref./Navigator/Appl an entry that describes the realaudio data. It should be something like: Description: RealAudio MIME TYPE: audio/x-pn=realaudio suffixes: .ra,.ram Handled by: Application: /usr/X11r6/rvplayer %s. I also get an entry like: Description: Real player (tm) as Plug-in MIME TYPE: audio/x-pn=realaudio-plugin suffixes: .rpm Handled by: plugin: RealVideo Player plugin Hope that helps. Paulo. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
Re: Diamond Supra Express PNP internal modem , Linux , and you.
I have the exact same modem and I can't get it to work either. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can someone please tell me if it is possible to use above modem with Linux. Thank you for your assistance. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin: vcard fn: Chris Wesneski n: Wesneski;Chris adr:http://wwp.mirabilis.com/8555629;;;Dallas, Texas;;;USA email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Install 2.0 via FTP: doesn't like a 28.8 modem the OS/2 partition likes.
Don't feel bad I've been banging my head on this for two weeks now Rob Landley wrote: Brief summary: In installed from the boot disk, booted to the linux partition, but pon can't create a ppp connection to my ISP to install the rest via FTP. My system: 486DX75, approx 800 meg IDE hard drive (western digital I think), local bus, IDE CD-ROM (which OS/2 insists is a Sony CDU-55D,55E,76E,760E,77E... hey, it works), an IDE (well, ATAPI) zip drive, 3.5 drive A, 5.25 drive B, an 8 bit sound blaster from the dawn of time, a local bus does everything type I/O controller that probably has a garage door opener on it somewhere... The problem component seems to be my generic 28.8 internal modem using 8 bits of a 16 bit ISA slot on COM3 using standard port/IRQ address. (COM1 is built into that controller card, but disabled via jumper. OS/2 detects and used this modem just fine, I'm using it from my recently shrunk (guess why) OS/2 partition to send email.) The debian boot disks went down fine, I have a debian partition installed on partition hd6 (OS/2's useless boot manager, OS/2 itself, linux swap, and linux itself.) It boots from a floppy to get to it, I can login as root and cd around to my heart's content. The pon script exits immediately of course, but ps a says it fired off pppd which in turn fired off chat. After around 30 seconds, chat exits, so does pppd, and I still don't have a connection for dconfig to FTP the rest of the base system through. I copied all my ppp config (user name, password, phone number) info from my OS/2 ppp dialer, where it works, and entered it when prompted by install. Double-checked, it is correct. (I even started over, reformatted and did all seven boot disks again with the same result). I've tried both ATZ and the init string I hacked together way back before I misplaced the modem manual: ATFE1M0C1D2W2. Same result both times. As far as I can tell, it's not even picking up the phone. Drawing on the fragments of unix I know from college (sunos 4) and a little dabbling with AIX at IBM, I did the following, which may be a big red herring for all I know: on the alt-f1 tty: cp /dev/ttyS2 /dev/console on the alt-f2 tty: cp /dev/console /dev/ttyS2 (If there's a dumb terminal program built into the OS, please let me know...) On alt-F2 I can type in ATDT[ENTER] and get the modem to pick up the phone, but only after about a fifteen second delay. It takes about the same amount of time for ATH0[ENTER] to hang up the phone. (Way back in the dark ages I used a 300 baud modem, and it was WAY faster than this response time.) I sometimes (unpredictably) get my commands echoed back to me on the alt-f1 console, and sometimes even a return code. The return code is numeric, despite the fact the long init string (Which sometimes gets echoed back) says to return OK. I dunno what ATZ is supposed to return. I've tried 115k and 57600 port speeds. (Well, in the ppp config file in /usr/sbin/something_or_other. I don't know how to set it manually. I'm installing this to learn, not because I already know it.) I've been banging my head against this for two days. I've read rather a lot of Faq pages. I went through the bug reports for PPP (couldn't find one for the serial package). Um... Help? (Should I go back and try 1.3?) Rob Landley -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null begin: vcard fn: Chris Wesneski n: Wesneski;Chris adr:http://wwp.mirabilis.com/8555629;;;Dallas, Texas;;;USA email;internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] note: [EMAIL PROTECTED] x-mozilla-cpt: ;0 x-mozilla-html: TRUE version:2.1 end:vcard
