I tried to comment out ALL FontPath and I can't still run startx, though
the Font looks bad, xfs not running and the following commands give
error. I am using xsvga, does it has a VERY default font!
fsinfo -server localhost:7100
fslsfonts -server localhost:7100
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On
sorry, my previous post have some typo errors, here is the correct one.
I tried to comment out ALL FontPath and I CAN still run startx, though
the Font looks bad, xfs not running and the following commands give
error. I am using xsvga, does it has a VERY default font!
fsinfo -server
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
sorry, my previous post have some typo errors, here is the correct one.
I tried to comment out ALL FontPath and I CAN still run startx, though
the Font looks bad, xfs not running and the following commands give
error. I am using xsvga, does it has a
On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 10:06:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
No, you can have libc4, libc5, and libc6 on the machine
simultaneously. These are just run time shared libraries, and do not
interfere with each other. There should be only one -dev package at
one time.
Do not
Richard Heestand wrote:
I have installed nn and receive my news via NNTP. However, it
takes about 5 minutes to get my first page of news (slower than ms
windows trumpet by about 4 minutes!). Is this a function of nn.
Should I be using another newsreader?
I find the combination of leafnode
Dear Sirs,
I am a Linux user and I need information regarding linux (debian,RedHat,
Slackware) and its conformance to IEEE POSIX standards, specially those
that Microsoft Windows NT is not compliant.
Best regards,
Mario de Mello B. Neto.
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I am having an interesting problem now. I finally got my new machine
to boot up and I reset my X configuration for my new video card. X
works great but when I exit back to a stand tty the video is trashed
(misc. characters, garbage, and general
Remco Blaakmeer wrote:
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence wrote:
sorry, my previous post have some typo errors, here is the correct one.
I tried to comment out ALL FontPath and I CAN still run startx, though
the Font looks bad, xfs not running and the following commands give
error. I am
Lawrence wrote:
Markus M. Schneider wrote:
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I am using communicator 4.03 and had also this problem. I found however
that there was the following in the /etc/X11/Xresources file from the
installation:
! /etc/X11/Xresources
!
! This is the global Xresources file. It is used
im triying to install
debian ver 1.3 on mi IBM 365 xd laptop
for the first time
i have 8mb of ram, a 810 mb hard disk
drive (cyl 788 , heads 32 , sectors 63) , but the systems stops when booting
from the rescue disk , when i pressed F4 the table says something like
HARDWARE
PARAMETER TO
Hi Paul Serice; unless Mutt is confused,on Sep 25, you wrote :
Richard Heestand wrote:
I have installed nn and receive my news via NNTP. However, it
takes about 5 minutes to get my first page of news (slower than ms
windows trumpet by about 4 minutes!). Is this a function of nn.
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On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 10:06:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Do not remove libc4 until you are sure there is not program on
your machine that depends on libc4.
It is my understanding (and experience)
On Thu, Sep 25, 1997 at 10:28:18PM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
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According to Scott K. Ellis:
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On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
On Tue, Sep 23, 1997 at 10:06:09PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Do not remove libc4 until you are sure there is not program on
your machine that depends on libc4.
It
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 12:21:15 +0100 (BST), David Wright wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Dave Cinege wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 01:23:03 +1000, Lawrence wrote:
Anyone knows the default serail port speed? It is 38,400bps? Which
file responsible for this setting? I want to increase it to
From what I have heard, this could be tricky. It seems amazing, but the
IEEE, in it's infinite wisdom, has decided that people should pay to find
out about some of the standards it issues. Anyone know if this is still
the case?
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Mario de Mello B. Neto wrote:
Dear Sirs,
On Wed, Sep 24, 1997 at 08:43:26PM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:28:18 MDT Chad D. Zimmerman
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Wed, 24 Sep 1997, Philippe Troin wrote:
Plug-and-Pray ?
Also of concern was that tty01 seemed to be a 16550A first time,
and only a 16450
hi
I have a problem with midnight commander under X-windows
I know, this was solved here, but I can't find this in mailing archive
I can't use function keys F1-F4, if MC is running under Xterm
Can anybody help me? (or can anybody tell me, where in mail archive I can
found solutions?)
Greetings all,
ok first thank you to everyone who helped me earlier with the basic hd
mounting stuff.after adding a few lines to the fstab and other file in
/etc i quickly had the win95 partition mounted..
OK...my next scenario.
i have all the X .deb packages and have installed
On Sep 25, Mario de Mello B. Neto wrote
I am a Linux user and I need information regarding linux (debian,RedHat,
Slackware) and its conformance to IEEE POSIX standards, specially those
that Microsoft Windows NT is not compliant.
I'm nowhere near a standards expert, but I suspect most Linux
Howdy all:-)
First off, many thanks to the people who responded to my DOSKey and file format
queries. Lots
of great information sent my way and much appreciated at this end! :-)
Quick recap of my problem here:
The Rescue/Base installation refuses to install LILO on my system. The
joost == joost witteveen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
joost Good thing (to upgrade to menu-1.5). I'd like to urge more
joost users of stable with problems with menu files (or the
joost _very_ cryptic error messages of menu-1.3) to upgrade to
joost menu-1.5-4.
indeed, this helped
hi
I have a problem with midnight commander under X-windows
I know, this was solved here, but I can't find this in mailing archive
I can't use function keys F1-F4, if MC is running under Xterm
Can anybody help me? (or can anybody tell me, where in mail archive I can
found
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writ
es:...
i have all the X .deb packages and have installed them.but when i ran
X...i get the error that no mouse was found. i performed the xf86config
and answered all the questions and tried various mice protocols but to no
avail. i have an MS mouse
Hi!
I tried to remove samba and this is the error-msg:-)
Removing samba ...
dpkg: error processing samba (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
How can I remove samba?
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I have a problem with midnight commander under X-windows
I know, this was solved here, but I can't find this in mailing archive
I can't use function keys F1-F4, if MC is running under Xterm
Can anybody help me? (or can anybody tell me, where in mail
Hi!
Bruce Perens has just arrived at the convention in Aachen.
His talk will be distributed over the net using RealVideo.
If you have an RA player handy, switch to the URL as listed
in the signature and watch Bruce on Saturday, 9/27/97.
The talk will take place from 13.30 to 14.30 MET (german
Joerg Friedrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: I tried to remove samba and this is the error-msg:-)
:
: Removing samba ...
: dpkg: error processing samba (--remove):
: subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
:
: How can I remove samba?
This is a bug in the Samba package. Edit
Did somebody install debian on compaq with SCSI.
It is written NCR53S710 on the chip.
Kernel doesn't see SCSI at all.
Thanks
Evgeny
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Hi!
I tried to remove samba and this is the error-msg:-)
Removing samba ...
dpkg: error processing samba (--remove):
subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
How can I remove samba?
In file /var/lib/dpkg/info/samba.prerm change two lines from:
start-stop-daemon
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997, Russ Cook wrote:
I'm a brand new Linux user, still installing/configuring Debian 1.3.1.
I have a Diamond Viper SE PCI video card with the P9100 chipset. I tried
installing the XServer_P9000 (I'm not at my machine and don't have the
precise name) first, but couldn't get
Hey
Anyone out there who has gotten Autmounterdeamon to work together with Samba
(that is, automagically mounting samba shares) ?
Remco
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My ISP has just changed my IP number, gateway and DNS server. I have
manually changed the routing information in /etc/init.d/network to
reflect the new numbers yet when I ping the gateway I get Destination
Host Unreachable. the route -n command gives me the following output...
Destination
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], writes:
Quick recap of my problem here:
Can you post what error messages you see? It would make diagnosis a lot
easier.
The Rescue/Base installation refuses to install LILO on my system. The boot
disk refuses to
boot up because, AFAIK, LILO isn't
Don't know how much thos S3 cards Joost wrote about cost, but it may be
more cost effective to buy AxxeleratedX from Xi Graphics ($99, www.xig.com).
It does support your card/chipset and you can download a demo before
buying to make sure (times out after 10 mins). Install was a piece of
cake,
On Thu, 25 Sep 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Why not not installing libc6 coexisting with libc5, as described by Scott
Ellis´ Mini-Howto which is weekly (?) posted on this list. It proved to
be painless for me and has bash-2.01. It is a rather small step, making
my system in no way unstable.
I can't say debian is posix conformant. However, I have been
developing c code on hpux, dec osf1, and aix for some years now. Linux
is as good as any of those. When it comes to supporting old standards
like bsd, linux is probably a bit better.
To be an actual factual posix system you have to
On 26 Sep 1997, TENCC01.LEWIS01 wrote:
To be an actual factual posix system you have to pass a test suite that
requires
a bunch of money. If the test suite is ever put in public domain, linux may
get
a posix rating.
These are rather old postings but I think they shed some light:
I have never seen linux operate on any kind of graphical interface like
Windows 95.
What GUI do most people use?
How easy is it to install?
Someone told me of a web site that had different GUI stuff for linux but I
lost it. Anyone have such a site?
Tony
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Hi..
I have an ppp server (whith mgetty)but it don't work fine.
After the user login,if he does:
ping 192.168.1.1 (the server IP address)
the server reply the ping fine (if I ping the client, when the user is
login, the repply is fine as well).
The problem arose when the user try use
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997 08:59:04 -0500, Tony Koehn wrote:
I have never seen linux operate on any kind of graphical interface like
Windows 95.
What GUI do most people use?
How easy is it to install?
Someone told me of a web site that had different GUI stuff for linux but I
lost it. Anyone have
According to Remco Blaakmeer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
fsinfo -server localhost:7100
fslsfonts -server localhost:7100
I tried that and listed a huge list of fonts. I started X, but
it still couldn't find fixed.
If xfs is properly configured and running, and if the FontPath in
XF86Config is set to
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Tony Koehn wrote:
I have never seen linux operate on any kind of graphical interface like
Windows 95.
You could use fvwm95. Set up to look a lot like Win95 GUI.
What GUI do most people use?
Xfree86, I would think ... the i386 implementation of Xwindows. Not sure
Sorry, guys, the saga goes on.
Now that X is up and running again, there is only one (pretty annoying)
problem:
When placing, moving or resizing windows I don't see the typical
window outlines. All I see is the changed mouse cursor.
I am using the latest fvwm95 from BO. And in case it's
David Wright wrote:
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Ross Gardler wrote:
My ISP has just changed my IP number, gateway and DNS server. I have
manually changed the routing information in /etc/init.d/network to
reflect the new numbers yet when I ping the gateway I get Destination
Host Unreachable.
On 26 Sep 1997, Andy Spiegl wrote:
Sorry, guys, the saga goes on.
Now that X is up and running again, there is only one (pretty annoying)
problem:
When placing, moving or resizing windows I don't see the typical
window outlines. All I see is the changed mouse cursor.
I am using the
Gang,
I can't seem to locate the NS v4 installer package.. I've got the
tar file from Netscape waiting in /tmp for the package...
I looked in contrib, and all that seems to be there is the 3.01
installer
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joost witteveen writes:
Does anybody know how I should create a brief.cls from a brief.dtx
with the debian teTeX packages?
Get the contents of the whole ntgclass directory from a CTAN site.
Unpack it, say in /tmp/ntgclass, then cd to that directory. Then
latex ntgclass.ins
will
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
In message
[EMAIL PROTECTED], writes:...
i have all the X .deb packages and have installed them.but when i ran
X...i get the error that no mouse was found. i performed the xf86config
and answered all the questions and tried various mice
Peter Bodnar wrote:
...
I know this, but learn key don't work correctly...but some weeks ago
somebody wrote about patch on MC
You have to use terminfo file supplied with mc for xterm. It then breaks
all ncurses packages -- dselect, ncftp etc.
(RT mc docs, description of how to
joost witteveen writes:
Does anybody know how I should create a brief.cls from a brief.dtx
with the debian teTeX packages?
Get the contents of the whole ntgclass directory from a CTAN site.
Unpack it, say in /tmp/ntgclass, then cd to that directory. Then
latex ntgclass.ins
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Oliver Elphick wrote:
dpkg is at /usr/bin/dpkg; it is part of the base system, and essential, but
I do not know whether it is actually part of the four base diskettes
lilo is in /sbin/lilo
Since the four base diskettes comprise the base system, they do indeed
All mail for our domain is placed in a POP account that we access
remotely via fetchmail to distribute locally. The problem I have is
mainly mailing lists. Fetchmail does not see the recipients address in
the Received: header info. So messages all end up in the calling
user's mailbox.
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Lawrence Lucier wrote:
The Rescue/Base installation refuses to install LILO on my system.
What steps did you take to get here? The installation should be nearly
complete at this point. You made partitions, installed and configured the
kernel and drivers, installed and
On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 10:42:51AM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
: I can't seem to locate the NS v4 installer package.. I've got the
: tar file from Netscape waiting in /tmp for the package...
:
: I looked in contrib, and all that seems to be there is the 3.01
: installer
For those
Hi,
I tried installing communicator 4.03 using netscape4_4.0-4.deb, and got
the following output:
Installing Communicator files...
Installing Communicator Java files...
./ns-install: line 278: 2389 Broken pipe tar -cf - ${i}
2390 Done| ( cd
Bruce Perens has just arrived at the convention in Aachen.
His talk will be distributed over the net using RealVideo.
If you have an RA player handy, switch to the URL as listed
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The talk will take place from 13.30 to 14.30 MET (german
In either your /etc/profile our your own personal profile put:
CLASSPATH=$where_netscape_is:.
export CLASSPATH
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In either your /etc/profile our your own personal profile put:
CLASSPATH=$where_netscape_is:.
export CLASSPATH
Or,
export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape
I don't do this though, because every time I access a web page with Java
using Netscape 4.03 it dies with a bus error - but only when I am
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Hi,
sorry if this has already been answered here before but I can not find
the answer in my 30 day archive of debian-user:
I am trying to install StarOffice with the .deb found in hamm/editors.
Installation is failing because this package depends on libc and there
are no libc packages installed
Joe Stewart writes:
All mail for our domain is placed in a POP account that we access
remotely via fetchmail to distribute locally. The problem I have is
mainly mailing lists. Fetchmail does not see the recipients address in
the Received: header info. So messages all end up in the calling
I know how to make partitions with cfdisk, but where in the
installation process do I assign a file system to a partition?
For example, suppose I want to put /, /root, /usr, /var on four
separate partitions and the rest of LINUX on a fifth partition.
Where and how do I tell LINUX to do this??
Nevermind. I used dpkg --force-depends -i staroffice3_3.1-3.deb and
could install it. I think this is a bug, though.
Thanks,
E.-
Eloy A. Paris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
: sorry if this has already been answered here before but I can not find
: the answer in my 30 day archive of debian-user:
:
:
Sorry for a late reply...
This is what they look like normally:
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
tty01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
tty03 at 0x02e8 (irq = 3) is a 16450
BUT two times now, this has happened when the system boots up:
tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16450
I'm at my wits end trying to find refresh rate specs for an IBM 6317 and
a Compaq 171. The company web sites are no help. Does anyone know of
some spec collections on the Internet??
TIA
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On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Douglas Potter wrote:
I know how to make partitions with cfdisk, but where in the
installation process do I assign a file system to a partition?
For example, suppose I want to put /, /root, /usr, /var on four
separate partitions and the rest of LINUX on a fifth
Jason Costomiris wrote:
On Fri, Sep 26, 1997 at 10:42:51AM -0400, Jason Costomiris wrote:
: I can't seem to locate the NS v4 installer package.. I've got the
: tar file from Netscape waiting in /tmp for the package...
:
: I looked in contrib, and all that seems to be there is the 3.01
:
On Fri, 26 Sep 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
In either your /etc/profile our your own personal profile put:
CLASSPATH=$where_netscape_is:.
export CLASSPATH
Or,
export MOZILLA_HOME=/usr/lib/netscape
I don't do this though, because every time I access a web page with Java
using Netscape
Eloy A. Paris wrote:
Hi,
sorry if this has already been answered here before but I can not find
the answer in my 30 day archive of debian-user:
I am trying to install StarOffice with the .deb found in hamm/editors.
Installation is failing because this package depends on libc and there
Nathan E Norman wrote:
I'm at my wits end trying to find refresh rate specs for an IBM 6317 and
a Compaq 171. The company web sites are no help. Does anyone know of
some spec collections on the Internet??
Yup, here's a monitor specs database:
I know how to make partitions with cfdisk, but where in the
installation process do I assign a file system to a partition?
For example, suppose I want to put /, /root, /usr, /var on four
separate partitions and the rest of LINUX on a fifth partition.
Where and how do I tell LINUX to do
On Fri, 19 Sep 1997, Lazaro Salem wrote:
If you haven't fixed your problem, I can help you. Just send us what
your able to see from DOS (with DOS FDISK) and/or from linux with
cfdisk and with fdisk if you have it on your system (they do not present
the same information as far as I remember).
Subhi S Hashwa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I just got Debian linux on CD and following the advice of friends I
partitioned my Windows 95 Harrdisk to 2 partitions FAT32 for W95 and
un-partitioned for linux. My Question is now how can I install LILO on the
boot sector of the FAT32 partition to
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