Re: debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem

1997-06-08 Thread Carey Evans
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] dpkg --remove lesstif-bin (Reading database ... 11943 files and directories currently installed.) Removing lesstif-bin ... dpkg: error processing lesstif-bin (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1 Errors

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-08 Thread Carey Evans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] What I'm after is something simple I can put into a script for sudo to kill the ppp daemon and also hang up the line, freeing /dev/ttyS1 immediately (rather than waiting for the ISP to idle out the line and hang up on me). The first part I've got figured

Re: debian 1.3 upgrade: my first success with one minor problem

1997-06-08 Thread Alex Yukhimets
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] dpkg --remove lesstif-bin (Reading database ... 11943 files and directories currently installed.) Removing lesstif-bin ... dpkg: error processing lesstif-bin (--remove): subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status

console screenblanker?

1997-06-08 Thread Zachary DeAquila
How does one disable the screenblanker that's installed on the console by default? My machine mostly runs headless and heyboardless so it'd be nice to *just* be able to plug in a monitor and see what's going on and not have to plug in a kbd just to be able to hit a key... --Zachary -- TO

Re: console screenblanker?

1997-06-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Zachary DeAquila wrote: How does one disable the screenblanker that's installed on the console by default? My machine mostly runs headless and heyboardless so it'd be nice to *just* be able to plug in a monitor and see what's going on and not have to plug in a kbd just

ethernet problems

1997-06-08 Thread Jesse Goldman
Hi, I've just put a 3c900 card in my linux machine and it's giving me problems. Kernel version is 2.0.30. From what I could ascertain, the new version of 3c59x.c is a plug-in replacement for the old one without 3c900 support. Accordingly, I replaced the old version with the new, ran make-kpkg and

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice Can anybody give a report of the StarOffice word

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Does anyone know a simple command or tool to hang up the modem? Just hang it up, not stay connected to the tty and await more commands. What I'm after is something simple I can put into a

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-08 Thread branden
On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up properly. Then my modem isn't set up properly. I got a private email mentioning something about how the modem should automatically hangup once DTR is dropped, which happens if modem is given as an

why so many broken peips when installing 1.3?

1997-06-08 Thread Lawrence Chim
To further my previous post, I found that I have no problem installing netscape_3.0, but netscape-4.0 displayed a lot of broken pipes message and it not installed properly. After the install, I cannot find a find the nescape directory in /usr/lib. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-08 Thread stephen farrell
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Plenty of people have asked for the URL after I posted a Debian Success Story. So, here it is ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/linux/staroffice

Re: LILO: Wrong Loader ..

1997-06-08 Thread mfrattola
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Disclaimer: it's my fault, I know. On a stable (1.1.13) debian box I tried to upgrade the kernel from install 2.0.6 to a home-built 2.0.27. The home built kernel is known to work, so this is not the problem. I built it via kernel-package,

MAN dumps core - solved!

1997-06-08 Thread Picus Matti
Hi. I recently installed version 1.2. At some point in the insta process, the man command stopped working. It turns out that one of the packages installs the man pages owned by root, but another installs man owned by the user man. Then man cannot wirte the cat files and crashes. Solution: chmod

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-08 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Jun 08, 1997 at 02:00:07AM -0500, stephen farrell wrote: You should also take a gander at wp 7 before you throw any money on the table. There is a beta at http://www.sdcorp.com/. I've never Having discard the warning about being an authorised beta tester :-) since they don't have any

a x86 emulator that support win95

1997-06-08 Thread Lawrence Chim
Just found a x86 emulator and it seems support win95 though in early stage. http://world.std.com/~bochs/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Leafnode

1997-06-08 Thread Tim O'Brien
Does anyone know where leafnode keeps it lists of newsgroups it's supposed to retrieve? Somehow, my system keeps grabbing more and more things I didn't ask for (Local newsgroups of Miami, stuff like that). I'd like to lean it out a bit and see if it helps at all. After running fetch for the

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-08 Thread Ralph Winslow
stephen farrell wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Do any of these import Word* or Wordperfect? I don't want to re-type my resume. One of these days I'm going to have to

Re: URL for StarOffice is here

1997-06-08 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: stephen farrell wrote: Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 07, 1997 at 10:58:59AM -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote: On Sat, 7 Jun 1997, Paul Serice wrote: Do any of these import Word* or Wordperfect? I don't want to re-type my

Re: SLang? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

1997-06-08 Thread Randy Edwards
I've got a newbie-type question for anyone kind enough to answer. This morning I got a message from my cron which told me the following (header cut down a bit for brevity): From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.weekly Terminal not

Re: Leafnode

1997-06-08 Thread Joey Hess
Tim O'Brien: Does anyone know where leafnode keeps it lists of newsgroups it's supposed to retrieve? Somehow, my system keeps grabbing more and more things I didn't ask for (Local newsgroups of Miami, stuff like that). I'd like to lean it out a bit and see if it helps at all.

Re: SLang? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

1997-06-08 Thread Joey Hess
Randy Edwards: I've got a newbie-type question for anyone kind enough to answer. This morning I got a message from my cron which told me the following (header cut down a bit for brevity): From: root (Cron Daemon) To: root Subject: Cron [EMAIL PROTECTED] run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

Locales Problem?

1997-06-08 Thread Victor Torrico
Here is an error message received when I do dpkg installs on certain Debian packages such as xemacs for instance. Everything seems to work OK. perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings: LC_ALL = (unset), LANG = us are

Re: Will ATI 3D Rage chips work with XFree86?

1997-06-08 Thread Raja R Harinath
Michael Tempsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 15 May, Rick Macdonald wrote: Re: R. Chris Ross wrote: Re: I wondered if the D3 Rage chip set boards would work with Re: XFree86. They are supposed to be quite hot and someone offered to Re: trade me a Wincharge for one even up. Re: Re:

Re: Non-interactive modem hangup

1997-06-08 Thread John Goerzen
Look for an option something like: * Drop carrier on DTR low * Disconnect on DTR low If I remember correctly, it is an ATDx command, but I'm not completely sure. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 7 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: Just killing pppd will do it unless your modem isn't set up

Re: Setting up news

1997-06-08 Thread Rob Browning
Tim O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to set up a news server on my LAN. I have IPmasquerading running to allow the other computers access to the Internet through one 28.8 modem and a standard PPP account, as well as diald for demand dialing at night and constant connection during

Starwiter

1997-06-08 Thread Johann Spies
I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian question. I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then, apparently successfully, ran the setup script as a

Python add-ons

1997-06-08 Thread Johann Spies
How do I add on a module like Pygress95 to python? make does not seem to work. Is there something missing in Debian's version of Python? Johann Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Windsorlaan 19 Pietermaritzburg 3201 Suid Afrika (South Africa) Tel.

Re: Is xdm required?

1997-06-08 Thread Rick Jones
The instal script is just giving you the option of using xdm at bootup. Just say no and you can start it manually, or any other X startup program. On 4 Jun 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: J. Goldman writes: Sorry, I'm confused. What do you mean by the statement that you don't want to be

Re: Starwiter

1997-06-08 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
I get that too once and a while with the StarOffice stuff as well. And I figured out what it was with me ... and it may be the same for you. If I would get the error, I would do an 'su - your user name' and then try swriter3 again .. and then it would work. Not sure exactly why that would

Re: Stupid Question: Striping Dos ^M From Texts

1997-06-08 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
Somewhere in the dank recesses of my mind, I recall a utility that would strip the extra ^M's from a text file copied to a unix box. Well, it seems that Linux also considers these ^M's extranious, is there such a standard utility or do I have to dig even deeper to remember sed/awk/grep commands?

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-08 Thread Rick Jones
On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, David B. Teague wrote: Hi: A note of appreciation to several,and a continued request for help. Luke Bussanmas, Rob Browining, Brian White, and Gary Dolan (others? if so accept my apology!) have tried with varying degrees of success in helping me get Netscape

Re: Vid card memory

1997-06-08 Thread Dima
Ralph Winslow wrote: ... Did you try 24/32 bpp? Yes, I got them by default, but CTRLALT+ and CTRLALT- (+ and - on numeric keypad) don't seem to be working. They only switch screen resolutions, not colour depth. Colour depth is in /etc/XF86Config -- by default it's 8 bpp, unless 8 bpp

Re: Starwiter

1997-06-08 Thread Paul Serice
Johann Spies wrote: I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian question. I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then, apparently

Re: SLang? Cron run-parts /etc/cron.weekly

1997-06-08 Thread Joey Hess
Alexander Koch: Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Oh no - I think I might know what package is causing this problem, and unfortunatly, I maintain it :-/. Do you have slrn installed? Does /etc/slrnget.conf contain the following lines setting variables =y? This could very well be the

Re: making 16bpp the default in X

1997-06-08 Thread Clint Adams
Luke Bussanmas, Rob Browining, Brian White, and Gary Dolan (others? if so accept my apology!) have tried with varying degrees of success in helping me get Netscape running on my 1MB TVGA 9400 CXi card and KFC 15 monitor with X11R6, Debina 1.1 (with some upgrades). I am grateful to all

Problem getting German Umlaute

1997-06-08 Thread Stefan Baums
Hello, I recently installed Debian 1.2 on my notebook and everything went fine. Almost everything. While I am duly impressed by Debian's complex package management system and wide range of packages, I seem to fail in the simple task of getting it to display German Umlaute (a, o, u, sz (if your

Re: Starwiter

1997-06-08 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Johann Spies wrote: I am sorry to ask this here because this is not strictly a debian question. I spent many hours downloading StarOffice 3.1 and untarred it (StarOffice31-english.tar.gz StarOffice31-common.tar.gz StarOffice31-statbin.tar.gz) in /usr/local. I then,

iBCS

1997-06-08 Thread Mika Marjamäki
Hi! I'm trying to get iBCS working...I've tried iBCS-packets from bo and hamm, but nothing works. I always get a message like this: /lib/modules/2.0.30/misc/iBCS.o: unresolved symbol kill_fasync_Rab0414db What's wrong?! If you can help, please email me. Mika -- Mika

FAQ: Work-Needing and Prospective Packages

1997-06-08 Thread Sven Rudolph
Work-Needing and Prospective Packages for Debian GNU/Linux Sven Rudolph, [EMAIL PROTECTED] $Id: packages.sgml,v 1.43 1997/06/08 22:50:25 sr1 Exp sr1 $ 1. General Questions 1.1. Before reading this document You should have read the Debian GNU/Linux FAQ http://www.debian.org/FAQ/. 1.2.