Re: Logitech TrackMan

1997-09-11 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, If anyone knows the answer to my previous question re: Logitech TrackMan mouse (ie, what support to compile in, what protocal is it? etc), could you reply in personal email as well as to the list? I'm going out of town for a few days so I'll have to temporarily unsubscribe. Thanks

Re: Please recommend a quality 4GB hard drive

1997-09-11 Thread Lorens Kockum
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 07:41:28PM -0400, Tommy Lakofski wrote: I'm using a Seagate 2GB 5400rpm now... hopefully a slow drive won't run too hot and kill the bearings... I think if you keep a drive cool it'll have a better chance at longevity. The notice that came with my 7200 rpm Fujitsu

Re: K Desktop Environment

1997-09-11 Thread Synergistic Effect
Hi. I have tried the latest KDE .deb packages there and have found that the kfm file manager locks up and core-dumps on a regular basis. I have had more luck compiling from scratch, but currently I can't get kpanel to compile because I seem to be missing something called 'msgfmt'. Apparently my

Re: Video Cards

1997-09-11 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: Ok, getting tired of 640x480 and 8bpp color gona do some looking this weekend for a new video card. Anyone have recomendations that i can check into? X Supported of course and able to go 800x600 and 16bpp ... Only limiting factor is:

dselect to ftp.debian.org

1997-09-11 Thread Ralph Winslow
This seems not to be working of late. When I try to connect, it says something about not liking the -a flag. What's up?? -- - Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] The IQ of the group is that of the member whose IQ is lowest divided by the

paralell zip drives and debian

1997-09-11 Thread justin honold
i'm having trouble with the ppa driver running debian 1.3.1 (2.0.30 kernel). i have lp and ppa as modules so i can turn them on and off (as they conflict with each other). if i insmod ppa from bash and mount /dev/sda4 everything runs cool... but if i put ppa in /etc/modules it says it's unable

Re: Video Cards

1997-09-11 Thread timm
We use Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 video cards that cost us about $75 (I think) and support up to 1152x??? in 16bpp. They support 1280x1024 under Win95, so there is probably a way to make Linux go that high also. Timm Gleason On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Chad D.

playing around with PPP parameters, how?

1997-09-11 Thread Chris R. Martin
I'm running Debian 1.3.1. I would like to tweak some of the ppp driver parmeters, such as MTU size and a few others... where do I even start to look for that stuff? Thanks Chris Chris R. Martin email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer Engineeringweb: http://http.tamu.edu/~crm7479/ Texas

Re: playing around with PPP parameters, how?

1997-09-11 Thread Britton
/etc/ppp/options has mtu and mru options. The PPP-HOWTO talks about it a bit I think. On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Chris R. Martin wrote: I'm running Debian 1.3.1. I would like to tweak some of the ppp driver parmeters, such as MTU size and a few others... where do I even start to look for that

Where can I find pftp?

1997-09-11 Thread Luka Pravica
Hi, I am using ppp to conect to my uni-server. I can connect and WWW is working fine. But because of some problems with the server the only way to use ftp is by using a linux program pftp (win users can't use no ftp programs at all :). Using netscape as ftp is working, but it is bad for

tkirc woes

1997-09-11 Thread Chad D. Zimmerman
Installed tkirc but when I attempt to run it I get this: godzilla# tkirc Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable Error in startup script: can't read tk_version: no such variable while executing if {$tk_version 4.1} { puts stdout Error:

Re: K Desktop Environment

1997-09-11 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
If you still need msgfmt, install the xview-dev package. Apart from the usual libc5 and X packages xview-dev also needs the main xview package. The xview packages are in the X11 section. Ben wrote: Hi. I have tried the latest KDE .deb packages there and have found that the kfm file manager

Re: Error message from modprobe during boot with Debian 1.3.1

1997-09-11 Thread ioannis
Until few minutes ago, I was stumbling on the same error message during boot, in the way that you describe. Prompted by your post I set out to fix it and the message is now gone. But I cannot tell that I understand myself what was causing it. All I did was update /etc/init.d/boot and

Re: lftp

1997-09-11 Thread ioannis
In addition to being unable to understand the problem discription, it is most possible that I would not be able to find the solution. Since the program hangs, it might first be worth to verifing local directory permissions, then use strace(1) for more clues (and, yes, I agree! ncftp is using

Re: Debian + PC with multi RS... port - n x (text dumb terminal + printer)

1997-09-11 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
Ah OK, _thank_you_ again... I do this once in a while with an old 286 PC... my last question was related mainly to the 'printer' side of the couple... I mean: _supposing_ that it is possible to have terminal+printer on the same serial line (I still hope to get answers to the original 3

Re: mouse

1997-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes: Hi, Anyone have any experience with the Logitech TrackMan mouse? I can't seem to get the thing to work right either with X or with gpm. Does it use the Logitech MouseMan protocal? Microsoft Protocal? I use a Logitech TrackMan Marble trackball,

Re: IP aliasing

1997-09-11 Thread Terry Dawson
Maarten Boekhold wrote: I tried to steup an IP alias on a machine here. According to the Virtual-Web mini-HOWTO, I can do: ifconfig eth0 alias new-address However, ifconfig says 'alias' is not a hostname. 'man ifconfig' doesn't say anything about aliasing. This is with netbase 2.13-1.

RE: gcc

1997-09-11 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
Hi! Was trying to compile a program with gcc and it gave me the error: gcc: installation problem, cannot exec 'cc1': No such file or directory I installed it correctly.. Thanks, Jens I had exactly the same problem with Debian 1.2 - on one machine everything worked fine, on the other

vacation program

1997-09-11 Thread Alex Monaghan
Help, I think there was recently a discussion about this, but I deleted it as I wasn't interested at the time. I'm looking to provide a simple system generated Email reply to a specific address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I wish to send a simple message :- Thankyou for your enquiry I'm available in

1.2-1.3.1 upgrade and file-rc

1997-09-11 Thread Waller Martin MEJ
Hi, I've upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3.1, and during the process file-rc was installed... Well, I'm having problems with it. First, on boot up xdm wouldn't start. Looking in /etc/runlevel.conf, xdm was the last line of the file and below was a comment saying: #THE LAST LINE IS NEVER READ!

Re: mouse

1997-09-11 Thread Kevin Conover
I have a Trackman that is about 2 years old. My gpm.conf file looks like this: device=/dev/ttyS0 responsiveness= type=bare append= and the section from my XF86Config looks like this: Section Pointer ProtocolMouseMan Device /dev/mouse # When using XQUEUE, comment out the

how can I add a program to my x-window menu?

1997-09-11 Thread dada
Hi I'm using fwmn95 and I want know how can I add an program to menu. Supose that I installed the nedit editor. How can I do to put it the fwmn95 menu? Another question: When I start X, allways apears an xterm open. How can I modific it to that apear another program? thanks -- TO

Re: how can I add a program to my x-window menu?

1997-09-11 Thread Remco van de Meent
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, dada wrote: : Hi I'm using fwmn95 and I want know how can I add an program to : menu. : : Supose that I installed the nedit editor. How can I do to put it the : fwmn95 menu? Checkout the files in /etc/X11/fvwm95. : Another question: : : When I start X, allways

Re: 1.2-1.3.1 upgrade and file-rc

1997-09-11 Thread David Wright
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Waller Martin MEJ wrote: I've upgraded from 1.2 to 1.3.1, and during the process file-rc was installed... Well, I guess you installed it... Well, I'm having problems with it. First, on boot up xdm wouldn't start. Looking in /etc/runlevel.conf, xdm was the last

Re: how can I add a program to my x-window menu?

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, dada wrote: : Hi I'm using fwmn95 and I want know how can I add an program to : menu. : : Supose that I installed the nedit editor. How can I do to put it the : fwmn95 menu? Checkout the files in /etc/X11/fvwm95. Or, if you've got menu installed, add

Re: lftp

1997-09-11 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Since the program hangs, [...] I wouldn't bother trying to track it down. The problem is easily reproducible with the lftp in 1.3.1 but not with the one in hamm, the problem appears to have been fixed somewhere between 0.10.0 and 0.12.2. If the reget command to

Re: XFree86 and Threads...

1997-09-11 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On 9 Sep 1997, Dale Martin wrote: I was just curious - since libc6 is thread safe, and GUIs seem to be something that can be naturally multithreaded, is XFree86 multithreaded under Linux? (or any other system, for that matter?) I'm about to get a second PPro for my box at home, and I already

Re: Status of wide character support in Linux

1997-09-11 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Sat, 6 Sep 1997, David B. Teague wrote: I'm curious if anyone knows the status of wide character support under Linux, and under gcc/g++ in particular. I know its coming, but I hope for a 2, 5, or 10 year availbility estimate, and a remark on 'whatz happening.' The new libc6 in the

Re: lftp

1997-09-11 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: I've been trying to download a large file (~32Mb) without sucess using ftp and ncftp, so I pulled lftp (because it advertises that it will checkpoint). When I try to download, however, it seems not to do anything. For example: lftp ftp.corel.com ls

xman problems

1997-09-11 Thread Manuel Sickert
Hello debians, I posted this question to the german user list too, no answers. I'll try it again here. The problem is, that xman doesn't find the X11 and related man pages. All the other manpages are displayed correctly. The X11R6 man directory is in the MANPATh: ~$ manpath

Re: xman problems

1997-09-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello debians, I posted this question to the german user list too, no answers. I'll try it again here. The problem is, that xman doesn't find the X11 and related man pages. All the other manpages are displayed correctly. The X11R6 man directory is in the MANPATh: ~$ manpath

Re: xman problems

1997-09-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello debians, I posted this question to the german user list too, no answers. I'll try it again here. The problem is, that xman doesn't find the X11 and related man pages. All the other manpages are displayed correctly. The X11R6 man directory is in the MANPATh: ~$ manpath

root and .rhosts file (again)

1997-09-11 Thread Jeppe Buk
Hi Thanks for all the answers I got to my original message. I'm afraid you all misunderstood my question, though. I am not interested in allowing remote root logins to my machine. Only rsh and friends (like rcp). To illustrate, this is a transcript from a short session from our primary server

DHCP Server

1997-09-11 Thread Tony Koehn
Does anyone know how I can setup a DHCP server? I need a small crash course on how a DHCP server works Heres what I need. Will a DHCP server do this? I have W95 computers on a networks. These machines are accessable to the public. I need all time logged from the time a person loggs on

Linux Notebook for rent?

1997-09-11 Thread Harald Helfgott
Hi! One of my professors is desperately seeking a place where he can rent a notebook with GNU/Linux (Debian of preference) already installed. Any ideas? Recommendations? Of course, he would like something in the Boston area. Harald Waltham, Massachusetts -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: tkirc woes

1997-09-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Chad D. Zimmerman wrote: Installed tkirc but when I attempt to run it I get this: godzilla# tkirc Application initialization failed: no display name and no $DISPLAY environment variable Just like it says. Try something like: export DISPLAY=:0.0 assuming that you're

Re: Where can I find pftp?

1997-09-11 Thread Nicola Bernardelli
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Luka Pravica wrote: Hi, I am using ppp to conect to my uni-server. I can connect and WWW is working fine. But because of some problems with the server the only way to use ftp is by using a linux program pftp (win users can't use no ftp programs at all :)

Re: Where can I find pftp?

1997-09-11 Thread Viorel ANGHEL
What is pftp? Sounds good (i have a slow connection also...) vang -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Setting X mouse responsiveness

1997-09-11 Thread Brian White
How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the screen? It's a PS/2 mouse. I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting things in X? X is accessing the mouse directly, not

Re: root and .rhosts file (again)

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
Hi Thanks for all the answers I got to my original message. I'm afraid you all misunderstood my question, though. I am not interested in allowing remote root logins to my machine. Only rsh and friends (like rcp). To illustrate, this is a transcript from a short session from our primary

Re: Setting X mouse responsiveness

1997-09-11 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the screen? It's a PS/2 mouse. Have a look at the man page of xset. xset m ... controls mouse speed and accelleration. You can put your favourite settings

Re: Setting X mouse responsiveness

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the screen? It's a PS/2 mouse. xset m 10 (or see the xset -h output for more info). -- joost witteveen, [EMAIL PROTECTED] #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: DHCP Server

1997-09-11 Thread Carlo U. Segre
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Tony Koehn wrote: Does anyone know how I can setup a DHCP server? I need a small crash course on how a DHCP server works Heres what I need. Will a DHCP server do this? I have W95 computers on a networks. These machines are accessable to the public. I need

Re: DHCP Server

1997-09-11 Thread Kevin Traas
A DHCP server will not do this for you. These are two totally unrelated issues. A DHCP server provides an IP address to a DHCP client when the DHCP client boots (and requests) and address. This happens before a login screen ever appears. Win95 provides no authentication by itself. It needs to

Repost: MajorDomo Config

1997-09-11 Thread Kevin Traas
I haven't received any responses on this since I posted it a few days ago, so thought I'd try again. If you've got MajorDomo running, I'd like to talk further with you. Please help if you can. Thanks, Kevin Traas Baan Business Systems Systems Analyst Langley, BC, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks George

remove

1997-09-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
remove -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Setting X mouse responsiveness

1997-09-11 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Brian White wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:59:59 -0400 From: Brian White [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Users debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Setting X mouse responsiveness Resent-Date: 11 Sep 1997 15:01:56 - Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org

Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold

1997-09-11 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 01:10:03PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: On Tue, 9 Sep 1997, David R. Hageman wrote: One last quick question about adding sound support to Debian. How does one handle the Plug and Play issue regarding the Sound Blaster AWE 32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold? Last time

Re: remove

1997-09-11 Thread Stephen Zander
Rick Hawkins wrote: remove -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . This was a joke, right?? Stephen -- Normality is a statistical illusion. -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread joost witteveen
Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. The only problem I can think of is that root-squash may not be enough (an attacker may still read

Re: Security issues for nfs mount

1997-09-11 Thread Jim Pick
Hi, I was wondering whether there is anything to worry about if I let another machine nfs mount, read only, root-squash, one directory on my machine. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks George I don't

Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 and Sound Blaster AWE 64 Gold

1997-09-11 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Tue, Sep 09, 1997 at 01:10:03PM -0400, Will Lowe wrote: If you have a pnp bios, it's handled before linux even boots. Otherwise, you'll need to use the isapnptools package. Hmm, nearly correct. I experienced with pnp bios and SB32pnp, that

Re: root and .rhosts file (again)

1997-09-11 Thread Jim Pick
I think somebody said this already, but I'll repeat it. Use ssh. It's more secure, and easier to figure out. The only downside it that it is non-free (only for non-commercial use) and non-US (can be used in the US, but not exported). Cheers, - Jim pgpsqHstBS8EG.pgp Description: PGP

Re: K Desktop Environment

1997-09-11 Thread Marc Meier
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone... I was just looking at KDE's website (http://www.kde.org), and was very impressed with some of the things I saw. I know it is still in alpha, but does anyone have experiance with how stable it is on Debian? I also saw that it is availible in deb

Re: IP aliasing

1997-09-11 Thread Jason Costomiris
On Thu, Sep 11, 1997 at 03:30:18PM +1000, Terry Dawson wrote: : Maarten Boekhold wrote: : : I tried to steup an IP alias on a machine here. According to the : Virtual-Web mini-HOWTO, I can do: : : ifconfig eth0 alias new-address : : However, ifconfig says 'alias' is not a hostname. 'man

Re: Where can I find pftp?

1997-09-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], the Date: header is one year slow! Date: Wed, 11 Sep 1996 02:36:31 +0300 (EEST) Viorel, please check your system clock! I sort messages, and yours end up in the wrong place. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL

Re: DHCP Server

1997-09-11 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! A DHCP server provides an IP address to a DHCP client when the DHCP client boots (and requests) and address. This happens before a login screen ever appears. Win95 provides no authentication by itself. It needs to belong to an NT Domain or NDS for this. So, without third

Re: vacation program

1997-09-11 Thread Brian White
I think there was recently a discussion about this, but I deleted it as I wasn't interested at the time. I'm looking to provide a simple system generated Email reply to a specific address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). I wish to send a simple message :- Thankyou for your enquiry I'm available in 3

Re: Setting X mouse responsiveness

1997-09-11 Thread Brian K Servis
Brian White writes: How can I adjust the responsiveness of the mouse under X? Right now I almost have to move the mouse half way across the room to cross the screen? It's a PS/2 mouse. I've adjusted (lowered) the resposiveness under GPM. Could that be affecting things in X? X is accessing

Debian ppp server how-to?

1997-09-11 Thread dada
Is there any how-to to setup an ppp server under Debian? I need detailled information becouse I'm newie :-) and I want set up one ppp server at my home. Regards. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP Server

1997-09-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
A DHCP server provides an IP address to a DHCP client when the DHCP client boots (and requests) and address. This happens before a login screen ever appears. Win95 provides no authentication by itself. It needs to belong to an NT Domain or NDS for this. So, without third party support,

bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions

1997-09-11 Thread G. Crimp
My disk has one primary Dos partition and an extended partition with two logical disks on it. To my dismay I have discovered that they are no longer visible from both DOS and Win 3.x. I invoked DOS fdisk and they were indeed not reported on the partition table. However,

Re: bug ?: Disappearing DOS partitions

1997-09-11 Thread Bruce Perens
There are some dos-compatibility switches in the expert menu of fdisk. I think you type x to get there. You should BACK UP EVERYTHING (from Linux, since DOS can't read the partitions) before doing this. Write down all of the details of your partitions - their start address, length, etc. Turn on

comment about Linux

1997-09-11 Thread dada
Hi Is true that I never lose control on my linux box, but some times I lose control in my X-Windows and I must restart the X. Is that usual? I supose that's due to use some aplications. But if this is true, why I lose control on all aplications that I'm using? Regards -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

dpkg --forget-old-unavail do nothing

1997-09-11 Thread Andrea Arcangeli
Why? Andrea Arcangeli FYI, Andrea in Italy is a male name. (I am tired of being mistaken for a female :) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: lftp

1997-09-11 Thread Ralph Winslow
Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote: On Mon, 8 Sep 1997, Ralph Winslow wrote: I've been trying to download a large file (~32Mb) without sucess using ftp and ncftp, so I pulled lftp (because it advertises that it will checkpoint). When I try to download, however, it seems not to do anything.

Re: Debian ppp server how-to?

1997-09-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
dada wrote: Is there any how-to to setup an ppp server under Debian? I need detailled information becouse I'm newie :-) and I want set up one ppp server at my home. o get/install mgetty package o get/install ppp package o make sure kernel has ppp support, if it doesn't then get

Cucipop or Qpopper ??

1997-09-11 Thread Matthew Tebbens
Cucipop / Qpopper Any suggestions on which to use, basically...which is better ? Matthew -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: K Desktop Environment

1997-09-11 Thread Synergistic Effect
Ahh. Thanks! That was a bit obscure. I did manage to get a copy from someone else, but I'd prefer to have the Debian version. I have another question about KDE: So far I have been unsuccessful at building a KDE which has a working kpanel. Am I missing something? kpanel seems to chew up all