You have received some good answers and hopefully one of them will help.
I'd like to add one thing. I recently had a similiar problem. I followed
the docs diligently and installed everything perfectly but I still could
not print. Then out of frustration I deinstalled apsfilter and tried
SUMMARY:
I find problems with Air Combat Maneuvers coming as Debian (1.2.4)
package, both trying to run it (can't load libX11.so.6 and once that is
done with a workaround there is very slow motion) and trying to rebuild
the binaries (random number generators, a portability problem which
On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Rick Macdonald wrote:
I keep up-to-date with unstable. A few weeks ago I rebooted my machine
for the first time in ages (had to go to dos/win to do my income tax).
When I started up X, I found that I can still resize windows by dragging
the corners or edges, but I no
Yeap it looks just fine! :(
On 23 Apr 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
Comet Mercantile [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hope this helps! its very annoying and I haven't really done any changes
for this to have happenned! I am using BO btw maybe thats it.
Hmm, it looks OK to me too. Did you check
I do Perl development and I like to keep a current binary as
/usr/bin/perl so that it gets a good workout. How should I tell the
dpkg system that perl is available even though I don't have the standard
perl package installed?
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I'll have to agree with Rick. I cannot believe that this person is
a journalist !?!? I could tell right away that he did alot of research
on the subject ! :)
Come on guys... step outside our little linux circle and think about it.
Linux is *vastly* unfriendly for people who know little about
Hi,
Ted == Theodore Y Ts'o [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ted I the file that he was looking for was probably autoconf.h ---
Ted it's required by files such as /usr/include/linux/config.h.
Ted autoconf.h is generated by the kernel as part of the make
Ted config process.
I thought about that.
Hi,
I currently use the Rocketport here under 2.0.6 and 2.0.27
I just recompiled the V1.12 driver as I was using the 1.10 driver from way
back.
The driver compiled OK but I DO have autoconf.h on the system. I have it
in
./usr/src/kernel-source-2.0.27/include/linux/autoconf.h
Hi,
I am trying to install a wavelan card into a linux box. The setup is:
Digital Celebris XL 5166
Digital DE450 PCI Combo Ethernet Card (using tulip driver)
Western Digital (wd8003) 8-bit (el-cheapo) Ethernet card (using wd driver)
Built-In NCR SCSI Host (using 53c7,8xx driver)
Adaptec 2940
Running pon/poff as root is quite straightforward, otherwise...
On my Linux box with Debian 1.2.4 I created a pppusers group, I let
user nbern (born as member of group users) be a member of it (and also a
member of dialout, which is the group of /dev/ttyS1), and I set the
following
I just installed xautolock and wish it to come up when X is started.
Seems like the command should be in .xinitrc, but this dummy is having
trouble even finding that file. any ideas?
Thanks,
Jim
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Jim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just installed xautolock and wish it to come up when X is started.
Seems like the command should be in .xinitrc, but this dummy is having
trouble even finding that file. any ideas?
Well, if you're talking about it launching whenever you log in, yes,
that
You can connect all your devices to the 2940. If you use the 50 pin
internal connector for the narrow devices you need to disable onboard
termination of the low 8 bits and enable onboard termination of the
high 8 bits. You can still connect them externally if you get the
appropriate internal
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Roderick Schertler wrote:
I do Perl development and I like to keep a current binary as
/usr/bin/perl so that it gets a good workout. How should I tell the
dpkg system that perl is available even though I don't have the standard
perl package installed?
Install the perl
Nico == Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[reply diverted to debian-user]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The Times, a respected British newspaper, published an article
that was offensively critical of Linux in its Sunday edition.
Nico Is there any place on-line where I could
To: Steve Hsieh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
After burrowing around some, I finally found some info and docs on
EQL;
however, Multilink PPP is mentioned as a newer, and improved
alternative.
Unfortunately, I can't find any info on Multilink PPP in the
I think David Hewson was spouting off about UNIX -- and about it's
renewal in Linux. Until Linux came along, it is true that there
was no AOL-style propagation of the unix variants -- and that's
what worries him.
He's saying that marketing Linux along those lines -- tear it out
of a popular
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If it's a line-termination character problem, how can solve it?
Well, with HP printers, there's a control character that you can send
the character to set the convention. I don't know what you'd do for
other printers, or even if it's actually relevant, but I'd say you
I installed the ISA RocketPort card on a debian 1.2.8 machine with no
problems at all. I had built a kernel first.
John Foster
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
Date: Wed, 23 Apr 1997 14:49:04 -0500
From: Lauralyn Gorham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi Ted. I'm going to be
I looked at the debian mh and noticed it was suid group with the group mail
and although I'm not sure that a non root user can newgrp to mail (I tried
and it didn't work) I changed inc and msgchk to rwxr-xr-x (instead of
rwxr-sr-x). Does anyone know if what I did could create any problems??
Did
Walt Tautz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i hope no-one takes this silly thing seriously -- this is what i'd
call self-selective material. if you're going to listen to rubbish
like this, then you're probably not the kind of person who'd be
interested in linux anyway. in fact, i'd go so far as to
Richard L Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi,
I am trying to install a wavelan card into a linux box. The setup is:
Digital Celebris XL 5166
Digital DE450 PCI Combo Ethernet Card (using tulip driver)
Western Digital (wd8003) 8-bit (el-cheapo) Ethernet card (using wd driver)
Built-In
John == John Maheu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
John Hi all: I'm fairly new to linux. Lately I've been getting a
John lot of fatal signal 11's.
John It seems to occur when my system has been up for a few days
John under light load or up a day under a heavier load, running
John
Hi all:
I'm running kernel 2.1.29 from and Debian Version 1.2.8.
I have an AHA2940 SCSI controller. On that controller I
have a tape, HD and Yamaha CDR400t CDROM burner.
The tape and HD work fine. The CDROM however
works only a little. I can eject and read CDs only.
Every time I try to burn a
On Apr 24, Peter Iannarelli wrote
Hi all:
I'm running kernel 2.1.29 from and Debian Version 1.2.8.
I have an AHA2940 SCSI controller. On that controller I
have a tape, HD and Yamaha CDR400t CDROM burner.
^^^
cdwrite is at the moment not able to work with
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, John Maheu wrote:
Hi all: I'm fairly new to linux. Lately I've been getting a lot of fatal
signal 11's.
gcc: Internal compiler error: program f771 got fatal signal 11
This error means a problem with your memory or with your cache (try to
look the GCC FAQ). You can
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Igor Grobman wrote:
I am trying to help my friend install debian. He is getting the following
error when dselect tries to mount his cdrom:
mount: /dev/hdd has wrong major or minor number
unable to mount /dev/hdd on /var/lib/dpkg/methods/mnt
type iso9660
Dear all,
On one of the machines here, which is more or less a clone of other
linux machines, I keep getting kernel panics at times of low activity
(e.g. 6 in the morning). The /var/log/messages file contains lines
like:
Apr 24 08:23:00 bobbin kernel: general protection:
Apr 24 08:23:00
I'm reposting this since I haven't gotten any responses yet. Any ideas
would be greatly appreciated.
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
I don't understand why lilo is doing this. I've never had this problem
before.
I just repartitioned my drive and put linux on hda2. When I try to
I have been using magicfilter for a while, and have had several good
experiences with it. I remembered last night why I had not used apsfilter.
I tried to install apsfilter last night, because there is no magicfilter on
bo. I got a new printer, and am trying to get it working right, while
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 you wrote:
This -should- help you.
if not, consider install anacron, that will ensure your cron entries get
run regularly if you shut down at night.
It sounds like I need anacron, but I don't find it in my
/var/lib/dpkg/available. In what directory is anacron
There is a support list for cdwrite. Send subscribe to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Then send your question to the list.
My Yamaha CDR-100 seems to write well at 4X speed on my Pentium with
aic7xxx controller on the motherboard, but worked more poorly on some
of my 486 systems with ISA SCSI controllers. I
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Felix Almeida wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, John Maheu wrote:
Hi all: I'm fairly new to linux. Lately I've been getting a lot of fatal
signal 11's.
gcc: Internal compiler error: program f771 got fatal signal 11
This error means a problem with your memory or
anacron came with bo. (the next distribution, currently beta)
search in frozen/binary-i386/admin
I don't verify because I got kernel problems. But you should find it there.
Alexandre
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote:
On Tue, 22 Apr 1997 you wrote:
This -should- help you.
Bruce Perens wrote:
There is a support list for cdwrite. Send subscribe to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Then send your question to the list.
quickly:
has anyone ever burned cd's using the HP4020i?
m*
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Philipp JW Grau wrote:
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Stephen Davey wrote:
There is an entry in the /etc/mgetty/login.config for /AutoPPP/ but it just
seems to be ignoring it
AFAIK there must be an Define in the Makefile, but
I am not familiar with mgetty as a Debian package
From the
Mathieu Guillaume wrote:
I'm using the lastest xserver_s3v from hamm with a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
(S3 virge chipset). I can't get it to work in 16 bpp mode with a screen
size of 1024x768.
Supposedly, that's because the former s3v specs only allowed a maximum
rate of 80MHz in 16 bpp
Few month a go I had the same problem (sigsegv in gcc), solved it by
changing the motherboard. I suspect it was the cache but I can't say
for sure.
Hope that helps,
borik
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On Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:04:41 -0500, m* wrote:
Bruce Perens wrote:
There is a support list for cdwrite. Send subscribe to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] . Then send your question to the list.
quickly:
has anyone ever burned cd's using the HP4020i?
I use a Philips CDD2000, which is the same drive as
A couple of weeks ago I believe that there was some mention of
Kerberos-4 and Kerberos-5 packages to appear on the non-US sites real
soon now. Does anyone have an updated ETA for these?
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Trouble?
On Wed, 23 Apr 1997, Rick Jones wrote:
I don't understand why lilo is doing this. I've never had this problem
before.
I just repartitioned my drive and put linux on hda2. When I try to run
lilo to boot linux from hda2 instead of hda1 it gives me this error about
my cylinders.
I agree with you. I also disagree with him. Linux can be just as user
friendly as Windows and more, if it is setup by an experienced person. Or
even a knowledgable person (even tho most of us aint good spellars). I
think that most that come to Linux are as you say, tired of M$ and want a
I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it
crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this?
I've noticed that when I do a Make Xconfig to build a kernel the
selection to enable java support (CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA) is grayed out. Do
I need to change
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
... the file that he was looking for was probably autoconf.h --- it's
required by files such as /usr/include/linux/config.h. autoconf.h is
generated by the kernel as part of the make config process.
/usr/include/linux/autoconf.h is 56 bytes and contains a
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it
crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this?
I've noticed that when I do a Make Xconfig to build a kernel the
selection to enable java support (CONFIG_BINFMT_JAVA)
I moved all my files from hda1 to hda2 with the kernel being the last file
moved. So ofcourse it is beyond the 1023 line. That would explain it. My
mind is going and I'm only 32.
Since I'm going to repartition this again I should give in and split it
across partitions. You have a good layout
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Jim Smith wrote:
I wish to be able to enable Java support in Netscape 3.01 without it
crashing whenever I try a java site. Is there a patch or fix for this?
Thanks...
Jim
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Just re-install Netscape with the debian package in the
contrib
This is what I do:
(per the netscape/java howto)
#!/bin/sh
export CLASSPATH=/usr/local/lib/netscape/java_301:.
export LD_PRELOAD=/lib/gnumalloc.so
exec /usr/local/bin/netscape-3.01 $@
gnumalloc.so is on java.blackdown.org I believe
this solves netscape crashing, in most cases
- liem
I know this was asked not too long ago. I ignored it since I didn't
intend on putting Win95 back on my computer. That changed since wine
doesn't yet support some software I need to use.
Anyway. I've never even thought of running Linux across partitions so if
anyone has a good layout for root -
On 23 Apr 1997, James LewisMoss wrote:
Nicola I'll be away since tomorrow Thursday 24th and won't be
Nicola able to read
Nicola incoming messages until Monday 28th, so please don't think
Nicola I'm not polite if I don't answer immediately.
Nicola Anyway, thank you in
Just thought I'd kick in my two cents on this.
I know Bruce thinks it best not to respond, but after reading the
article I felt compelled. And I think that, with careful composition
and a clear head, it's possible to argue with an idiot and not look
like one.
Maybe I'm wrong; you be the judge.
In your email to me, Chris Hanson, you wrote:
Just thought I'd kick in my two cents on this.
I know Bruce thinks it best not to respond, but after reading the
article I felt compelled. And I think that, with careful composition
and a clear head, it's possible to argue with an idiot and
On Thu, 24 Apr 1997, Chris Hanson wrote:
Just thought I'd kick in my two cents on this.
I know Bruce thinks it best not to respond, but after reading the
article I felt compelled. And I think that, with careful composition
and a clear head, it's possible to argue with an idiot and not look
If your existing system is about what you want except for partitioning
you can figure it out for yourself.
This example assumes you're starting with one large partition and want
to calculate sizes for the same system using multiple partitions.
1) decide on which partitions to use:
- root
Rick Jones wrote:
I moved all my files from hda1 to hda2 with the kernel being the last file
moved. So ofcourse it is beyond the 1023 line. That would explain it. My
mind is going and I'm only 32.
Since I'm going to repartition this again I should give in and split it
across partitions.
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
...
4) Do some creative addition or multiplication to calculate how much
additional space to alot in each partiton beyond present usage (crystal
ball-land.)
In particular, think about apps that use /tmp -- gcc does, and if your /tmp
is on small root
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