Re: REDHAT 4.1 SONY CDU-33A

1997-11-26 Thread Bruce Perens
Please don't address redhat questions to the Debian mailing lists. Bruce -- Can you get your operating system fixed when you need it? Linux - the supportable operating system. http://www.debian.org/support.html Bruce Perens K6BP [EMAIL PROTECTED] NEW PHONE NUMBER: 510-620-3502 --

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Michael Roark wrote: Could not log in to the POP3 server. The server responded: maillock: '/var/spool/pop/username.pop' You did remove the lock, didn't you? And the problem persisted? Did you try: telnet localhost pop-3 user username pass password list retr 1 quit

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-26 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Martin Bialasinski wrote: But with your homemade compilation you have different problems now. Maybe you could reinstall qpopper and try again? I was thinking about the qpopper debianpackage of cause. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Cleaning dselect

1997-11-26 Thread Dana M. Epp
Does anyone know a way to clean dselect to only show info on the installed packages? I botched some of it, and now its nuts trying to figure what is to be installed.. what is considered on purge.. and what is removed. I have entries for packages that haven't installed correctly (ie xv.. due to a

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-26 Thread Michael Roark
Martin, I went back and plugged in the qpopper daemon. I tried to telnet to pop-3, but after pass password I get ERR- maillock: '/var/spool/pop/user.pop' Anything else to try? I can't check it with 'mail' from the prompt either. I get /var/spool/mail/user permission denied. Permissions? I

yet another ppp problem

1997-11-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
Hello, I am a new debian user. I have had my system running for about a month now. I am trying to set up ppp so that I can dial in to school from my home. I don't really know what I am doing, so like any good newbie, I poured over the /usr/doc and /usr/doc/HOWTO directories. There seemed

Needed Documentation

1997-11-26 Thread Chris Brown
Hello, I'm looking for a flowchart or something that describes the boot sequence in detail... haven't found anything like that yet. I'm a newbie to Linux, installed my first two systems this past weekend and have tons to learn. I know the PC inside out and am comfortable with OS's in general,

Re: Rebuilding the kernel

1997-11-26 Thread Bill Leach
While you _can_ certainly use the LDP HOWTO instructions for building a new kernel (and I may sure most debian users including myself have done so), using the debian kernel package's make-kpkg should be strongly encouraged. An additional 'nice' feature of the process is that after you run the

Re: multiple X sessions

1997-11-26 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Ettore Aldrovandi wrote: E Papantoniou wrote: - - Hi, - - when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 - and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user - and I type startx. I get some errors: - Hi, you have

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-26 Thread Alex Yukhimets
Hello, I am a new debian user. I have had my system running for about a month now. I am trying to set up ppp so that I can dial in to school from my home. I don't really know what I am doing, so like any good newbie, I poured over the /usr/doc and /usr/doc/HOWTO directories. There

Dial-up users on local subnet

1997-11-26 Thread Steven Tonnesen
I am using Debian linux boxes as firewalls at various schools and I have come across one minor irritation: Dial-up users dial in to an NT server which is on the same subnet as the linux boxes and which gives ip addresses to the dialup users that are in the same subnet as the Linux and NT boxes.

Gravis and Midi files

1997-11-26 Thread Russ Cook
I am a fairly new Linux (Debian) user, still customizing my kernel. I have added sound support (module) for my Gravis Ultrasound card, and can now play .wav files and .mod files. However, when I try to play .mid files using playmidi, I get oodles of errors of the form Gus: Undefined patch 0 for

Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
George Bonser wrote: I have been watching this on the list. One thing I have noticed is that Windows likes to set network cards up at irq 10 and some weird address. Even if you disabled pnp, the card settings may now be locked where they were before you disabled it. Can you, with the DOS

Re: parallel zip and scsi-kontroller conflict

1997-11-26 Thread Obi
Some times ago I used a ZIP drive from my laptop through the parallel port. I followed the instruction contained in the mini-howto and the ZIP drive worked flawlessy ... I don't have it anymore, but I know someone who use it consistently to backup his system. I know I compiled everything as a

Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
A. M. Varon wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: And one more thing, type dmesg | more and see if the kernel did detect a 3c509b PnP card. Nope, sure doesn't, and I've rebooted my kernel enough time in the past 3 days to force at least 2 maximal mount count checks,

Re: PCMCIA and 2.0.32 FIXED

1997-11-26 Thread Adam Shand
There is a bug in the netwave_cs.c source. It is fixed in the patched Debian source, for example in the pcmcia-source package, but it seems that you are using the upstream source. Here is the fix: move the line that reads `#include linux/sched.h' up three lines higher in the file. The

Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
Charles Read wrote: I've had similar trouble with a PnP modem, even though: a. 'dmesg | more' indicates the kernel finds the serial device for the modem. b. IRQs are uniquely assigned. c. setserial shows all configuration parameters for

Re: Oh, WAIT!

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
George Bonser wrote: I just saw this earlier mesage. Ok, rather than insmod, use modprobe! I ran into this last week. depmod -a modprobe 3c509.o io=0x300 or modprobe 3c509 io-0x300 I do not remember if I needed the .o or not but was having EXACTLY the same problem, device or

Re: Needed Documentation

1997-11-26 Thread Daniel Martin
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Chris Brown wrote: Hello, I'm looking for a flowchart or something that describes the boot sequence in detail... haven't found anything like that yet. I'm a newbie to Linux, installed my first two systems this past weekend and have tons to learn. I know the PC

Re: infinite loop in interrupt

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
Aaron Brick wrote: Hello everybody this may be more of a hardware question. i frequently see the error message eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011. on my terminal; however, the network connection is fine. what should i do to make whatever is causing that error stop reporting

Re: infinite loop in interrupt

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
Aaron Brick wrote: Hello everybody this may be more of a hardware question. i frequently see the error message eth0: Infinite loop in interrupt, status 2011. on my terminal; however, the network connection is fine. what should i do to make whatever is causing that error stop reporting

Re: parallel zip and scsi-kontroller conflict

1997-11-26 Thread Joerg Plate
Hello-hello, the problem is not a problem anymore :-) Kernel 2.0.32 and ppa 1.38 works fine (with modules, etc.) Jörg -- i'm working on it CIA SECRET: Proof of P=NP found in UFO![EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

AFS on debian 2.0.32 / unresolved symbols

1997-11-26 Thread Steve Hsieh
Has anyone been able to get AFS 2.0.32 to run on a debian 2.0.32 system? The rpm package is built on a redhat system. On my debian system, I get: kanga# insmod -f -m libafs.o libafs.o: unresolved symbol register_filesystem_R0c94bf58 libafs.o: unresolved symbol current_set_Ra3aab10f libafs.o:

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Britton
On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: Hi Clay. 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you boot multiple OS's. In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 first,

[SOLVED] Annoying boot-up messages

1997-11-26 Thread Pann McCuaig
Thanks for all the responses. Kevin hit the nail on the head. On 25 Nov 1997, Kevin Buhr wrote: Pann McCuaig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This started happening weeks ago when I upgraded from rex to bo. It seems to have no real effect other than the annoying boot-up messages. [ . . . lots

VC's and X sessions how?

1997-11-26 Thread Britton
While we're on the subject, I've had an annoying problem with X anc colsole switching forever: I can switch to another console fine, but when I switch back to X, I see the underlying console instead of the graphics, like when you quit X. What am I missing? On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, E Papantoniou

Re: REDHAT 4.1 SONY CDU-33A

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
Michael S. Howard wrote: I just got another Puter, a 486 66MHz 16MB RAM the works just fine with good old Slackware 3.0 (yes it's old). Anyway, I am trying to install REDHAT 4.1 and it cannot autoprobe the SONY CDU-33A 2x CDROM (it was found under Slackware 3.0) Does anyone know the

Re: Eth0

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
Bill Leach wrote: Greg; first under Linux there will not be and should not be a device file in /dev for your ethernet card. From what you have NOT said, I would like to be sure that the module IS installed so do a cat /proc/modules and look for a 3c509 entry. Whether the kernel says

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 first, and when it gets itselft all screwed up you can't reinstall it without scrapping your master boot record again, which I'm sure is a real

Re: VC's and X sessions how?

1997-11-26 Thread robert havoc pennington
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: While we're on the subject, I've had an annoying problem with X anc colsole switching forever: I can switch to another console fine, but when I switch back to X, I see the underlying console instead of the graphics, like when you quit X. What am I

elf-x11r6lib

1997-11-26 Thread Rick Hawkins
I'm getting dependencies on this,which claims not to exist on debian's ftp site. Is there somewhere to get it? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1997-11-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: I'm getting dependencies on this,which claims not to exist on debian's ftp site. Is there somewhere to get it? No, elf-x11r6lib doesn't exist, any package that depends on it should have a bug reported against it. elf-x11r6lib is 'xlib6'. As long as

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1997-11-26 Thread Rick Hawkins
No, elf-x11r6lib doesn't exist, any package that depends on it should have a bug reported against it. OK, where do i look for ino on this, and check to see that it's not already done? I know that there's bugtracking, but i haven't paid much attention. It's xforms.86, by the way. -- TO

mirror

1997-11-26 Thread dpk
I have recently taken a new job here at the College of Engineering at MSU, which gives me liberty to create debian mirror... which is something I would like to do! Is there information/recomendations on this? ... as in what site I should use to mirror, suggested machine specs, etc?? Thanks,

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Britton
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Christopher Jason Morrone wrote: On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Britton wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 first, and when it gets itselft all screwed up you can't reinstall it without

Re: Needed Documentation

1997-11-26 Thread Sten Anderson
Chris Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm looking for a flowchart or something that describes the boot sequence in detail... haven't found anything like that yet. I'm a newbie to Linux, installed my first two systems this past weekend and have tons to learn. I know the PC inside out and

partioning disk when running windows 95

1997-11-26 Thread butch
Hi, i have the floppies and i am getting ready to partion disk using fips and cfdisk. well i ahve started and even when going to a dos mode it seems that a win 95 is a hostile machine. i used fips and now i see that part of my disk has an unreconiable format. does anyone have ideas? allan --

Re: elf-x11r6lib

1997-11-26 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, George Bonser wrote: Ok, I have three such packages awaiting install for that lib, I was just waiting for it to show up in unstable ... xosview glut3 mesa2 Maybe xlib6 should be marked as providing elf-x11r6lib. No, the deal is that xlib6 provided elf-x11r6lib a

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Sten Anderson
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: Hi Clay. 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you boot multiple OS's. In my experience this works, but not

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Britton
On 26 Nov 1997, Sten Anderson wrote: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Dana M. Epp wrote: Hi Clay. 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you boot multiple OS's.

Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
Not to say that you aren't the MAN when it comes to ethernet drivers (you are), but I think I've found a problem that might be resolved with a few modifications to the source of the 3c509.c driver. Attached to this email are applicable files from my Debian Linux 2.0.29 installation. I have

Re: partioning disk when running windows 95

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
butch wrote: Hi, i have the floppies and i am getting ready to partion disk using fips and cfdisk. well i ahve started and even when going to a dos mode it seems that a win 95 is a hostile machine. i used fips and now i see that part of my disk has an unreconiable format. does anyone

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: Hi Clay. 1) Yes, Debian can co-exist with Win95. Using something called LILO( Linux Loader ), it can become your boot manager, which will allow you boot multiple OS's. In my experience this works, but not nicely. You have to install Win95 first, and when it gets itselft all

Q: How does one generate diffs for use with patch

1997-11-26 Thread Daniel Martin
I've just gone through and compiled bash 2.01 for my bo system - I got the debian package source, modified the tarball so that it would unpack nicely with bo's dpkg-source, and then mucked around with the debian/ subdir of the unpacked source so that it built a libc5 (bo) bash, libreadline2,

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
George Bonser wrote: Just curious, have you tried the modprobe yet? George Bonser Debian/GNU Linux See http://www.debian.org Linux ... It isn't just for breakfast anymore! Sure did and no luck. Same message: init_module: Device or resource busy. But if you look at my configs attached

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread me
If you can get a copy of OS2 BootManager, it will take care of everything. I believe it is about the best out there. I have used it with Win95/FreeBSD, Win95/Linux(slackware), and now Win95/Debian. It works flawlessly. Now if all I had was Linux and OS/2 on my pc, life would be great! Alas, my

cu connects to PnP modem ok, but no response for AT

1997-11-26 Thread Charles Read
Earlier, I reported that: # cu --speed 115200 ---line /dev/ttyS1 cu: open (/dev/ttyS1): Permission denied cu: /dev/ttyS1: Line in use To fix this, I did: # vigr [added my user name to the 'dialout' group] # newgrp dialout Then: # cu --speed 115200 --line /dev/ttyS1 Connected [here I type

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
A. M. Varon wrote: Hi, hmmm, since the cards works with the other computers, then therefore there is no problem with the card. I'm convinced that the driver of 3c509 is the culprit of your computer(exotic?) hardware. It does'nt detect your hardware setup. For a more simple solution

Re: cu connects to PnP modem ok, but no response for AT

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
Charles Read wrote: Earlier, I reported that: # cu --speed 115200 ---line /dev/ttyS1 cu: open (/dev/ttyS1): Permission denied cu: /dev/ttyS1: Line in use To fix this, I did: # vigr [added my user name to the 'dialout' group] # newgrp dialout Then: # cu --speed 115200 --line

Re: Possible bug or flaw detected.

1997-11-26 Thread Wintermute
George Bonser wrote: There is something that bothers me about your stance that there is something wrong with the driver ... surely this woudl have been exposed before. Are you the only 486 running a 509? You yourself say that the same hardware works fine on another machine with the same

Re: uninstall GMT

1997-11-26 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Marco Secli' CELINT wrote: Hello, My name is Marco Secli' (CELINT S.R.L.) I'm in trouble with GMT time and I'd like to remove it without repeating all the installation of DEBIAN linux. What trouble with GMT? What is the problem? If you do not like GMT change the entry in

Re: multiple X sessions (continued)

1997-11-26 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, E Papantoniou wrote: to add to my previous msg: when I try to get back to the first X session with Ctrl-Alt-F1 I get another error msg: AUDIT: X: client 11 rejected from local host Auth name MIT-MAGIC-COOKIE-1 ID: -1 To return to the original X display use Alt-F7.

Re: Rebuilding the kernel

1997-11-26 Thread Chris Waters
Andrew Akins wrote: I've read all the howtos and got all the files, so I'm pretty sure I have a good idea of how to do it (but I'm open to suggestions, if anyone has them). When I followed the directions, everything worked fine. Easy as pie. My problem is this - my *$#$ laptop manual

Laptop computers

1997-11-26 Thread Miguel A. Arranz
Hi all! A friend of mine is considering the purchase of a laptop computer in order to get connection via PCMCIA card modem. Can you recommend some combination of computer-card to run Debian on it?. I know that there are special disks for Tecra, but some other suggestion would be highly

MB without VGA card?

1997-11-26 Thread Kevin Traas
Does anyone have info on running a system without a VGA card? I'm looking to build a router of sorts and I'm running out of available slots... The one card I'd like to do without is the video card It's an ASUS Pentium motherboard. In the BIOS, there's only options to select mono, CGA, and

FileSystem Sizes

1997-11-26 Thread Kevin Traas
If I remember (off the top) correctly, lseek() is/was the limiting factor on filesystem sizes... At one time, this was 32bit, so max addressable filesystem size was 2GB. Has this changed? i.e. what is the max ext2 filesystem size? Regards, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: KDE team doesn't like Debian dist.?

1997-11-26 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Ted Harding wrote: In my humble opinion /opt has another very useful and practical function. You can mount a whole new disk partition on /opt, when your original /usr partition is getting full. Since some of the commercial packages not only are designed to install under /opt by default, but

Re: Laptop computers

1997-11-26 Thread Kevin Traas
A friend of mine is considering the purchase of a laptop computer in order to get connection via PCMCIA card modem. Can you recommend some combination of computer-card to run Debian on it?. I know that there are special disks for Tecra, but some other suggestion would be highly welcome (Acer ...).

Re: ppp help

1997-11-26 Thread Iztok Umek
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Your problem is that you're requiring-pap from the *peer*. In other words in your options file you need: #require-pap # allow only pap authetication instead of: require-pap # allow only pap authetication Thankyou! Now it

mgetty + autoppp: how to tell username?

1997-11-26 Thread Peter Gervai
Hello, Using mgetty and autoppp utmp/wtmp contains the given string (now a_ppp) instead of the real username. Is there a way to set it to the real user or I'm stucked at grepping the data from the logfile? thx, Peter -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to

Re: Laptop computers

1997-11-26 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 08:20:03AM +0100, Miguel A. Arranz wrote: Hi all! A friend of mine is considering the purchase of a laptop computer in order to get connection via PCMCIA card modem. Can you recommend some combination of computer-card to run Debian on it?. I know that there are

Re: Q: How does one generate diffs for use with patch

1997-11-26 Thread Oliver Elphick
Daniel Martin wrote: ... So here's the question - how do I make this patch? Some files in the original source distribution's debian/ directory aren't there in mine. Also, doesn't a diff usually tell how to change one file into another? How then does one generate patch files to change

Re: ISDN PAP and Debian

1997-11-26 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Batista, M. wrote: Iztok Umek wrote: ... Nov 19 21:29:30 stealth ipppd[589]: rcvd [0][LCP ConfReq id=0xa0 auth pap magic 0xd383b861] Nov 19 21:29:30 stealth ipppd[589]: sent [0][LCP ConfRej id=0xa0 auth pap] ... and /etc/isdn/ipppd.ippp0 I enabled nex things: ...

Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.

1997-11-26 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: Been there, done that. Like I said.. this is an advanced problem. I've done some more experimenting today and so I have some more things to add should anyone still be watching this thread. Did you try: 1) to rip off all other cards, esp. of the

hptools and magicfilter

1997-11-26 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi A couple of days ago, I had a HP660C installed on my Linux box. Installed magicfilter, enscripts, lprng,... . First question : I chose to use the 550C filter. Is there any filter more recent than that ? After printing some test pages and seeing that everything was ok i saw that the printer

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread me
If you check my sig, you will see that I have Warp3. I love it! I have had it for about 2 years. I also am subscribed to a online book for OS2, that is updated by one of the developers of OS2. He was a developer when IBM and M$ were working together. He plainly states that M$ NT is based on OS/2

Re: pop3 problem

1997-11-26 Thread Eloy A. Paris
Michael Roark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : on the pop3 problem - I got a log file going. It does check : /var/spool/mail as it should, but reports 0k for the user when checking. : If you go to the directory, there is a mail file for the user. What are the permissions of /var/spool/mail and

Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.

1997-11-26 Thread Adam Shand
Well, I've got a few ideas for you. Right off the bat I am wondering why you are using /dev/ttyS1 instead of /dev/cua1 (which is one of the standard call out devices). As I remember, the /dev/ttySx's are normally used as call-in devices (whether or not this actually makes a difference to

Re: simple questions

1997-11-26 Thread Kevin Traas
If you check my sig, you will see that I have Warp3. I love it! I have had it for about 2 years. I guess you find it a little disappointing that IBM has decided to dump OS/2 now, huh? No more development team - they've all gone over to Java development Oh well, you've picked the *best* OS

Re: mgetty + autoppp: how to tell username?

1997-11-26 Thread Adam Shand
Using mgetty and autoppp utmp/wtmp contains the given string (now a_ppp) instead of the real username. Is there a way to set it to the real user or I'm stucked at grepping the data from the logfile? Yep there is an pppd switch called login (it might be +login I can't remember). Include that

Re: hptools and magicfilter

1997-11-26 Thread Mario Filipe
On 26 Nov 1997, Alair Pereira do Lago wrote: Sugiro que tentes lpq -Plpecono Testa sua impressão com algo como ls -l | lpr -Plpecono Tryed that got : lpq -Plpecono Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: server finished at 11:51:36 11:51:56$ ls -l

Re: Is there an ELM package?

1997-11-26 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 03:41:24PM +0100, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: Elm is kind of orphaned. The real work is now done with mutt, the newcomer. It is elm-ish but very much nicer and does mime and pgp just fine. Unfortunately, it is only in hamm (=unstable), IIRC. You can also try bo-updates. I

Strange MS mouse behaviour: defective mouse or serial driver?

1997-11-26 Thread Francesco Potorti`
Hi, I am experiencing a strange problem with a mouse used with gpm. I connect a Microsoft mouse to /dev/ttyS0, then issue: killall gpm; gpm -m /dev/ttyS0 -t bare so far, so good: gpm displays its cursor, which moves regularly. Then I issue: killall gpm; gpm -m /dev/ttyS1 -t bare killall gpm;

Re: neXtaw library

1997-11-26 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Nov 23, 1997 at 08:39:22PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: Whenever I run xconsole using the library it dies complaining about an error in freepixmap. thought someone might want to know. This is known. NeXtaw causes troubles with xkeycaps too. I am currently running xconsole by preloading

[no subject]

1997-11-26 Thread wujiangxing
Can you please let me know where can I get zmodem source? Thanks! -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Ghostscript / Brother HL-660

1997-11-26 Thread Marco Pistore
On Sun, 23 Nov 1997, Pierre Sarrazin wrote: 1. What is the precise incantation to ask Ghostscript to print a postscript file to my Brother HL-660 laser printer? I used to be able to do this in the past, but I can't remember the options. You could consider to install magicfilter: :

News2web

1997-11-26 Thread Mario Filipe
Hi Is there a news - web package ? It doesn't matter if it isn't debianized... Thank you Mario Filipe [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://neptuno.uevora.pt/~mjnf -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to

PAM

1997-11-26 Thread Aaron Denney
I was wondering if there is any plan to move Debian over to using PAM for logins and other authentication. I see that it has been made a debian package and some packages do use it, just not stuff like login. -- Aaron Denney -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-26 Thread Larry G. Gariepy Jr.
--- You wrote: Hello, I am a new debian user. I have had my system running for about a month now. I am trying to set up ppp so that I can dial in to school from my home. I don't really know what I am doing, so like any good newbie, I poured over the /usr/doc and /usr/doc/HOWTO

Re: hptools and magicfilter

1997-11-26 Thread Brian K Servis
Mario Filipe writes: Hi A couple of days ago, I had a HP660C installed on my Linux box. Installed magicfilter, enscripts, lprng,... . First question : I chose to use the 550C filter. Is there any filter more recent than that ? After printing some test pages and seeing that everything was ok i

Re: Laptop computers

1997-11-26 Thread Kirk Hilliard
On Nov 26, 10:10, Kevin Traas wrote: Well, I've got a Tecra 510, but I haven't found an XServer other than VGA that works with the video in this thing So, X isn't much of an option Unless anyone else can help - I'd be much appreciative! (Chipset is CL65550.) Hi Kevin! Check out:

PCL printer cannot be accessed

1997-11-26 Thread Charles Read
Two questions: 1. If I used dvihp to generate a PCL file, can I then go to a DOS shell in Win95 and say: c: copy PCL.file LPT1 I tried this, but first page was very messed up. 2. I tried: # dvihp -Plp1 text.dvi But got some connection refused message. Ditto for the 'lpq'

Debian insides...

1997-11-26 Thread jd?
Hey just a quick question i'm not all that familiar with unix/linux internals but would like to learn more i've been working with debian for a little while now and do have it up and running with some applications and x..thanx to the great packaging that takes care of alot of

Re: yet another ppp problem

1997-11-26 Thread Alex Yukhimets
OK. Now that I know that this is the Debian way, I am happy to do it this way. I tried this, and it was a beautiful thing to hear the modem connecting...but it didn't work. I'm going to include my /etc/ppp.options_out, /etc/ppp.chatscript, and the final plog. /etc/ppp.options_out

URGENT: writing Win95 Compatible ISO Images

1997-11-26 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! How do I make a Win95 Compatible ISO Image with mkisofs? I've tried with the -l -L options, but it doesn't work 100% all right. Thanks a lot in advance! Salutacions, Pere __o mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_

thanks (was Re: multiple X sessions)

1997-11-26 Thread E Papantoniou
thanks a lot!!! I tried it and it works On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Ettore Aldrovandi wrote: E Papantoniou wrote: - - Hi, - - when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 - and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as a different user - and I type

thanks (was RE: multiple X sessions)

1997-11-26 Thread E Papantoniou
I tried the second option and works :-) thanks to everybody that replied Manos On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Ted Harding wrote: On 25-Nov-97 E Papantoniou wrote: Hi, when I am logged in as a user and I run X windows, I press Ctrl-Alt-F2 and as expected a new terminal comes up. Then I log in as

Re: bash syntax

1997-11-26 Thread Witold Grabysz
Remco van de Meent wrote: On Mon, 24 Nov 1997, Witold Grabysz wrote: : the following phrase doesn't work in bash: : ((ls);(ls)) : Why? Is it not allowed by the shell syntax or there is a bug in it? : : It is a little important for me, because it is how the Netscape 4 spawns : an

Re: Debian insides...

1997-11-26 Thread gibson james
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, jd? wrote: Anyhow, i was wondering if there was any documentation on the architecture/internals of debian?? Such as memory management and the like. Not necessarily source code, because i KNOW thats made available, but outlines on the what and whymethods that linux

Re: Eth0

1997-11-26 Thread Greg Green
Problem solvedthanks to a tip from Kevin Traas. All I had to to was run modconf and it worked. I did have everything else that I could think of ( like LILO) configured, but this was the missing step. Thanks to everything for the help. Greg Green Wintermute wrote: Bill Leach wrote:

Re: URGENT: writing Win95 Compatible ISO Images

1997-11-26 Thread James Pearson
How do I make a Win95 Compatible ISO Image with mkisofs? I've tried with the -l -L options, but it doesn't work 100% all right. You can use my version of mkisofs, called mkhybrid that can create an ISO9660/Joliet/RockRidge/HFS CD image. Win95/NT4 use the Joliet extensions. Details at:

I need help setting up X

1997-11-26 Thread Shaleh
HELP!!! I am stuck in 8 bit mode. X insists that all of my modes are wrong so I am stuck in 640x480 8 bit mode. It sucks. Included are my monitor specs. I have an ET4000w_32p rev. b card. It has 2mb of memory. Please either e-mail me directly or respond to the list. Please. Type

Re: URGENT: writing Win95 Compatible ISO Images

1997-11-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Pere Camps wrote: Hi! How do I make a Win95 Compatible ISO Image with mkisofs? I've tried with the -l -L options, but it doesn't work 100% all right. If you mean one that can be viewed on a Win95 system, you probably want the -R and -T options (Redrock and

Re: Dial-up users on local subnet

1997-11-26 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Steven Tonnesen wrote: I am using Debian linux boxes as firewalls at various schools and I have come across one minor irritation: Dial-up users dial in to an NT server which is on the same subnet as the linux boxes and which gives ip addresses to the dialup users that are in the same

I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
I've been trying to use sed to do some editing of simple characters from a large block of ascii text. The text has tabs that I wish to replace with spaces, and hyphonated words wrapped across linefeeds that I also wish to remove. For the tabs, I try the following: sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g'

Re: 3c509 Detection problem. Experienced user needs assistance.

1997-11-26 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Tue, 25 Nov 1997, Wintermute wrote: : Charles Read wrote: : : I've had similar trouble with a PnP modem, even : though: : a. 'dmesg | more' indicates the kernel finds the serial : device for the modem. : b. IRQs are uniquely assigned. :

Re: Debian insides...

1997-11-26 Thread Will Lowe
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, jd? wrote: Anyhow, i was wondering if there was any documentation on the architecture/internals of debian?? Such as memory management and the Debian doesn't really have internals, unless you want to know about dpkg. Assuming you mean the linux kernel and it's associated

I'm an idiot and sed proves it...

1997-11-26 Thread Aaron Denney
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the tabs, I try the following: sed -e 's/'\t'/ /g' infile outfile Which very cleanly places every t in the document with a space!?? For the hyphonation I try: sed -e 's/-'\n'//g' infile outfile and although the file gets slightly smaller (I

Re: URGENT: writing Win95 Compatible ISO Images

1997-11-26 Thread Sven Goldt
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote: How do I make a Win95 Compatible ISO Image with mkisofs? I've tried with the -l -L options, but it doesn't work 100% all right. If you mean one that can be viewed on a Win95 system, you probably want the -R and -T options (Redrock and

Re: FileSystem Sizes

1997-11-26 Thread Scott Ellis
On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: If I remember (off the top) correctly, lseek() is/was the limiting factor on filesystem sizes... At one time, this was 32bit, so max addressable filesystem size was 2GB. Has this changed? i.e. what is the max ext2 filesystem size? Yes, it's

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