Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 12:25:56PM -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Rick Hawkins wrote: After playing for an extended period with the default settings, I finally figured out why my sound card wouldn't work: the defaults in the kernel package use Irq 7 rather than 5. Isn't 5 the standard on

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Stephen Zander
Hamish Moffatt wrote: Why shouldn't our kernel factory-default to 5 too? I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) Stephen --- Normality is a statistical

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why can't I use my ... printer? :)) In linux the lp module doesn't use an IRQ, it polls instead, doesn't

Re: kernel sound defaults wrong?

1997-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 04:39:42PM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote: Hamish Moffatt wrote: Why shouldn't our kernel factory-default to 5 too? I thought irq 5 was also for lpt1. surely it's better to document what we have now? Otherwise we may trade one set of questions for another (Why

Re: Anyone have any good help files for the learning Linux fan?

1997-12-11 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997 12:28:12 +0300, cs51wcs wrote: I'm looking for a good file for that will be able to answer some of my = questions about Linux. I've read all the included how-to's, but still = have many questions. I currently only have e-mail access and am not = able to browse or ftp. Hi

Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO - purging -dev packages

1997-12-11 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
Section 3. of the Mini-HOWTO says: If you wish to do libc6 development, you should first purge all the '-dev' packages on your system Please confirm that this does not include dpkg-dev_1.4.0.19.deb, which was installed under Section 2.3. Bob -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Debian libc5 to libc6 Mini-HOWTO - purging -dev packages

1997-12-11 Thread Scott K. Ellis
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Robert D. Hilliard wrote: Section 3. of the Mini-HOWTO says: If you wish to do libc6 development, you should first purge all the '-dev' packages on your system Please confirm that this does not include dpkg-dev_1.4.0.19.deb, which was installed under

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Bryan Barcelo
At 09:15 AM 12/10/97 -0600, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: These messages do not indicate a fatal error, only that you haven't installed these X extensions. If you're using your own .xinitrc, are you sure that the last command uses 'exec' rather than just running a program? This would cause the X server

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Bryan Barcelo
At 04:32 PM 12/10/97 +0100, Sten Anderson wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These messages do not indicate a fatal error, only that you haven't installed these X extensions. If you're using your own .xinitrc, are you sure that the last command uses 'exec' rather than just

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 05:51:40AM +0800, Bryan Barcelo wrote: At 04:32 PM 12/10/97 +0100, Sten Anderson wrote: Jens B. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: These messages do not indicate a fatal error, only that you haven't installed these X extensions. If you're using your own .xinitrc,

Re: smail to exim

1997-12-11 Thread tps
On Dec 10, Kevin Traas wrote I'm looking to convert from smail to exim for various reasons Anyway, I've no experience with exim. Can anyone give me any pointers on how to proceed with this particular roll-over or let me know of any docs I can RTFM, etc. Any caveats, things to watch

Help with using a remote xserver

1997-12-11 Thread bewhite
Hello all, I'm posting here because this used to work when I was using Slackware. I have a mac (my wife won't migrate to Linux ... yet!) and a linux box connect by ethernet. I run X11 on the linux machine, and because the monitor on the mac is so much nicer, I like to use a X server on it.

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-11 Thread Pure Energy
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997, Neilen Marais wrote: I am having a bit of a problem with Perl. I am running a mostly hamm system, but whenever I use the newest perl things start core-dumping (adduser, dpkg-ftp)... The only solution I have found is to downgrade to the old perl that came with hamm,

RE: smail to exim

1997-12-11 Thread George Bonser
The largest hurdle that you are going to face is getting smail off of your system so you can install exim. You are going to need to force dpkg to remove this essential package. I would wait a little while, the package in unstable is much better than the one in stable and a new upstream source

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-11 Thread Pure Energy
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Stephen Zander wrote: Neilen Marais wrote: Am at my wits end as to how to hanlde this Could someone PLEASE help? Sure, if I knew where when perl was core dumping what exactly is going wrong? Stephen Hi Stephen, Don't know how this can help but

upgraded to hamm! perl prob...

1997-12-11 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
Ok. I just completely reinstalled Debian. Pretty smooth. I let dselect install all the basic pre-selected packages. All good. Then I followed the libc5 to libc6 howto to the letter. I installed the necessary libraries by hand for perl. Then I ran dselect and pointed the ftp to the hamm

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window manager. You could make it xclock or something, but then you'd have to kill the clock somehow to logout. Depends

Replacing smail w/exim

1997-12-11 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm presently running my system with smail. What I'd like to do is to convert to an easier to configure and more capable MTA, which I believe is exim (correct me if I'm wrong:-). However, I'm in a catch-22. dselect/dpkg won't allow me to remove smail because so many packages depend on it.

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Alan Su
Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): |Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last | command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window | manager. You could make it xclock or

RE: Replacing smail w/exim

1997-12-11 Thread George Bonser
try dpkg -r --force remove-essential smail or dpkg -r --force depends smail but I think it is the first one. On 11-Dec-97 Randy Edwards wrote: I'm presently running my system with smail. What I'd like to do is to convert to an easier to configure and more capable MTA, which I believe is

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Sten Anderson
Alan Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): |Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last | command should not end in , but it's most useful if that's the window |

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Alan Su [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): | |Depends - most window managers will send a message to all active X |clients when they exit that causes them to shut down. | I don't think this is right...I've fiddled a lot with window

some dselect questions

1997-12-11 Thread Michael Stutz
Hey all-- Got several dselect questions that have been bugging me lately. One thing I don't like about dselect is with the searching -- is there a way to search through the text descriptions as well as the package names? Also, I'm not crazy about \ as the repeat search key -- is there a reason

Re: Help with using a remote xserver

1997-12-11 Thread Ronald L. Zerbe Jr.
I use a different server, but try DISPLAY=powermac:0; export DISPLAY from a telnet prompt in yur linux box. Then xterm or what ever, speaking of MI/X i just d/led the free version, (win95) and the file0001.bin is password protected, i cant get it to install, emailed microimage about it, but no

Re: is there a Debian specific published manual

1997-12-11 Thread G John Lapeyre
See the docs at www.debian.org . There are quite a few. Also there is a book on debian (OReilly ?) , its also on the net, but I can't remember where. On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Fuzzy wrote: / /usr /usr/srcinstalled system software sources /usr/local

zgv (libc6)

1997-12-11 Thread Christopher Jason Morrone
Just tried zgv thats in hamm. I get this: red# zgv svgalib: FATAL internal error: Set MAX_REGS at least to 405 in src/driver.h and recompile everything. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re 12 virtual consoles

1997-12-11 Thread Matthew F.
[original message got lost when my debian-user folder got automagically cleaned out at midnight. mea culpa... ] at a guess, I think what you want is more along the lines of 'screen' (available as a .deb in the 'misc' directory). it's a nice terminal multiplexer that permits up to 9 login or

correction.

1997-12-11 Thread Matthew F.
9 screens * 12 virtual consoles = 108 argh!! yes, this is indeed very wrong. realized just as the message zipped out - that'll teach me to run my mouth at 2am. sorry. :) --- matthew powers --- `` and what is good, Phaedrus, and what is not good -- need we ask anyone to tell us

Re: is there a Debian specific published manual

1997-12-11 Thread Random
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, G John Lapeyre wrote: See the docs at www.debian.org . There are quite a few. Also there is a book on debian (OReilly ?) , its also on the net, but I can't remember where. There is the Debian Linux User's Guide, published by Linux Press. It's available

Re: is there a Debian specific published manual

1997-12-11 Thread George Bonser
On 11-Dec-97 Random wrote: I took a look at it. It seems fairly complete, but you can get the same information from the HOWTO documents and the Debian FAQ. Corey The book is pretty handy if your internet connection is not set up yet ;) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 08:00:30PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): |Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the last | command should not end in , but it's most useful if

Re: Need help in X Windows installation

1997-12-11 Thread Alan Su
Hamish Moffatt wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 18:36:55 +1100 ): |On Wed, Dec 10, 1997 at 08:00:30PM -0800, Alan Su wrote: | Daniel Martin at cush wrote (Wed, 10 Dec 1997 22:34:52 -0500 ): | |Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | | The window manager should always be last too. Specifically, the

Re: Perl 5.004.04-2 causes core dumps...

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BTW, the version of PERL I'm trying to install is 5.004.04-2. There is a perl 5.004.04-3 at ftp://llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming/DONE/ Maybe it will solve your problems. Ciao, Martin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

SVGA (X) server stopped working properly.

1997-12-11 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hello! I accidently ran (the command) X (not startx) and the server showed up with no window-manager or anything else (just the dotted gray/white/black background and the x shaped cursor) I didn't know how to shut it down so I rebooted (since CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't do the job I pressed reset),

Re: How to get slrn colored in xterm ?

1997-12-11 Thread Frank Barknecht
Britton hat gesagt: // Britton wrote: What you need to do (if you are running bash at least) is type export TERM=xterm-color in the terminal before you start slrn. But this does not work anymore if you are living unstable with libc6. Somehow the terminfo entry for xterm-color is gone

ird registration

1997-12-11 Thread Brian Skreeg
Hi folks, I`m in the middle of writing an IRC client but have been halted in development by odd behaviour of the Debian ircd package. Ircd is installed as per default. This should be no ident and anyone can connect. According to the rfc the login process is like this. PASS anything

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-11 Thread Gertjan Klein
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: Obviously these are judgement calls and opinions but when the original hard disk code was written decisions were made concerning such things as sizes for device storage parameters. While what you have said

Re: Debian/WindowsNT partitioning

1997-12-11 Thread Gertjan Klein
Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Because of what you say, I feel as though it borders on FM but possibly it has something to do with the BIOS of the particular machines where this has workded? FM? Fdisk uses standard BIOS calls to access the harddisk, so it's unlikely this has

crypt problem

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Madlik
I'm trying to use st. from hamm distribution. libc6 and so on I have installed properly but now I have following problem : I'm compilling RADIUS 2.0 daemon and here is error message : /tmp/cca305401.o: In function `unix_pass': /tmp/cca305401.o(.text+0x2159): undefined reference to `crypt' make:

Re: some dselect questions

1997-12-11 Thread David Z. Maze
Michael Stutz stutz@dsl.org writes: MS Is it possible to view unstable packages with dselect? The Packages file MS never seems to be available. If you're using dftp, tell it to look at hamm/non-free, hamm/contrib, and hamm/hamm. (I've found that the order matters a lot, and putting hamm/hamm

Re: is there a Debian specific published manual

1997-12-11 Thread Brandon Mitchell
http://www.linuxpress.com/001001.htm Haven't had a chance to read it yet, but I think it's what you are looking for. Brandon - Brandon Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] We all know linux is great... it PGP: finger -l [EMAIL PROTECTED] does infinite loops in 5 seconds Phone: (757)

SVGA (X) server stopped working properly.

1997-12-11 Thread Orn E. Hansen
Liran Zvibel writes: Hello! I accidently ran (the command) X (not startx) and the server showed up with no window-manager or anything else (just the dotted gray/white/black background and the x shaped cursor) I didn't know how to shut it down so I rebooted (since CTRL-ALT-DEL didn't do

Ignore this (èé)

1997-12-11 Thread Tonetti.doc, R. Tonetti
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Can anyone please post the Debian specific published manual.

1997-12-11 Thread cs51wcs
Hello, I currently only have e-mail access and am unavailable to download it. Any assistance would be appreciated. Thanks -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

compiling autofs under bo

1997-12-11 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I'm trying to recompile the autofs package, from the hamm distribution, so I can run it on my bo system. I patched the sources and ran the 'rules' script and this is what I get instead of a nice debian package: Leeloo:~/leeloo/tmp/autofs-0.3.14$ debian/rules test -f

looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread cs51wcs
Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-11 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you're still getting disk accesses because of the update daemon? You could try killing it to check. (of course, then you have to sync your disk by hand). As far as I can tell, the update daemon in the more recent kernels (all

Re: crypt problem

1997-12-11 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Dec 11, 1997 at 01:54:50PM +0100, Martin Madlik wrote: I'm trying to use st. from hamm distribution. libc6 and so on I have installed properly but now I have following problem : I'm compilling RADIUS 2.0 daemon and here is error message : /tmp/cca305401.o: In function `unix_pass':

Re: crypt problem

1997-12-11 Thread Scott Ellis
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Martin Madlik wrote: I'm trying to use st. from hamm distribution. libc6 and so on I have installed properly but now I have following problem : I'm compilling RADIUS 2.0 daemon and here is error message : /tmp/cca305401.o: In function `unix_pass':

Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread dpk
Try the command 'pwd'. Thanks, Dennis -- dpk [EMAIL PROTECTED], Systems/Network | work: 353.4844 Division of Engineering Computing Services | page: 222.5875 On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem

Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
err, just pwd should do it rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: crypt problem

1997-12-11 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding crypt problem of 04:54 AM -0800 1997-12-11, Martin Madlik wrote: I'm trying to use st. from hamm distribution. libc6 and so on I have installed properly but now I have following problem : I'm compilling RADIUS 2.0 daemon and here is error message :

Re: /dev on a ram disk

1997-12-11 Thread Charles Briscoe-Smith
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you're still getting disk accesses because of the update daemon? You could try killing it to check. (of course, then you have to sync your disk by hand). As far as I can tell, the update daemon in the more recent kernels (all

Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread Peter Iannarelli
-Original Message- From: cs51wcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Thursday, December 11, 1997 9:53 AM Subject: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display

Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread Rick Macdonald
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. Do you mean the prompt? Try something like this for the bash shell: export PS1='\h:\w$ '

Re: Help with using a remote xserver

1997-12-11 Thread Oliver Elphick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:...I run X11 on the linux machine, and because the monitor on the mac is so much nicer, I like to use a X server on it. There is a free xserver for the mac called MI/X. Worked fairly well before I migrated to debian, but now when I try to start a client on that

Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread Brian K Servis
Rick Macdonald writes: On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. Do you mean the prompt? Try something like this for the bash shell:

changing gids

1997-12-11 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I am considering exchanging GIDs for groups mail and disk on some Debian systems. I would need this to be able to mount a remote /var/mail directory from a HP-UX system and use the same mailboxes on the Debian system. Would there be any unwanted side effects? Is there another

Cyrix MediaGX system + Debian ???

1997-12-11 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All there are new wave of cheap i86 systems based on Cyrix MediaGX chip with integrated video and sound (and Ethernet in the future). The price makes it quite attractive as X terminal and such. Is such system Debian Compatible? What about video? It's UMA system - it takes 2M out of

Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996, cs51wcs wrote: Hi, I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance is appreciated. To display the current directory with a command: $ pwd To have the current directory in the prompt

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-11 Thread Mike
get me off this list Gertjan Klein wrote: Bill Leach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Gertjan Klein wrote: Obviously these are judgement calls and opinions but when the original hard disk code was written decisions were made concerning such things as sizes for device

Re: XDM seem to hang until I reboot. (followup)

1997-12-11 Thread Jay Barbee
Hello all, I wanted to post a followup: The day I posted this information, I had already ran dselect and removed the version of 'xbase' and all its dependencies (xserver, xfnts, fvwm-common, etc) that I had installed via ftp.debian.org. After that, I went back and installed the versions I had

Re: NFS Permissions

1997-12-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Matthew Tebbens wrote: I would like to mount one of my servers and have that server allow access from the requesting uid/gid just as if it were local possible ? If so, how would I specify that in /etc/exports ? (As root on the remote system, I would like access to root files on the

Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread David Z. Maze
cs51wcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the c filesystem like in dos, but am having a hard time. Any assistance c is appreciated. Like 'pwd'? If not, why not? -- _ / \ The

Re: looking for a script to display current location in filesystem

1997-12-11 Thread Shaleh
Or do you mean you want a prompt that displays where you ar elike dos's prompt does. Each shell can do this. Read the man page for the escape sequence. In bash use '\w' in your prompt. cs51wcs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm currently trying to figure a way to display where I am in the

/proc directory

1997-12-11 Thread Kevin Traas
Can anyone point me to docs/info on the /proc directory. Specifically, I'm looking at content format, field descriptions, etc. Thanks, Kevin -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Cyrix MediaGX system + Debian ???

1997-12-11 Thread mike
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: Hi, All there are new wave of cheap i86 systems based on Cyrix MediaGX chip with integrated video and sound (and Ethernet in the future). The price makes it quite attractive as X terminal and such. I had this same thought, so at work

Re: /proc directory

1997-12-11 Thread robert havoc pennington
Hi, man 5 proc lists most of the entries, though it's a little out of date. Surely there's a more thorough description somewhere, perhaps in the kernel source? HTH, Havoc Pennington On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Kevin Traas wrote: Can anyone point me to docs/info on the /proc directory.

Re: NFS Permissions

1997-12-11 Thread Matthew Tebbens
I was using root at first. After checking with other users I did notice that only root was not allowed. Now by adding no_root_squash everything works fine ! Thanks. On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: Matthew Tebbens wrote: I would like to mount one of my servers and have that

Re: Can anyone please post the Debian specific published manual.

1997-12-11 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 11 Dec 1996 17:35:10 +0300, cs51wcs wrote: Hello, I currently only have e-mail access and am unavailable to download it. Any as sistance would be appreciated. Thanks It's too big to post to the list (365KB), and it's written in html, and redistribution requires permission by the

[Q] libICE

1997-12-11 Thread Pedro Quaresma de Almeida
Hi When I use dpkg I am getting the message /sbin/ldconfig: warning: can't open /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so what is the package that provides libICE.so? thank you. -- At\'e breve === Pedro Quaresma de Almeida Departamento de Matem\'atica Faculdade de Ci\^encias e

off-topic

1997-12-11 Thread Lawrence
Anyone know where to get a VGA HD15/4-BNC cable? I want to connect my monitor's 4-BNC connectors to my PC video card. Lawrence -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: COMMERCIAL: Arkeia v4.0r6 - network backup software (fwd)

1997-12-11 Thread Jeff Noxon
I tried the demo and liked it. It worked well, but installation on Win95 could be better. I could not get the GUI to install at all on 95. But it was awesome running a Win95 backup from the Linux machine. Totally transparent to the Windoze user. Restores too. I used an Exabyte 8200 8mm drive.

xdm....HELP!!!!!!???????

1997-12-11 Thread Brian V Bonini
Hello, Ok I checked the FAQ but there is no info on this potentially really dumb question. When I installed the server I chose to have xdm start at boot up. This works great noprob there. But I messed up. I started to set up the .xsession file and instead of doing this for my user account until I

staroffice libc5

1997-12-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a eyryttyp4:hawk/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming that a minimum of libc5-5.4.38 is necessary. Debian seems to stop at .33. However, there's enough

Question on Sony CD-Player

1997-12-11 Thread Mike Patterson
Stange, Strange question that I'm curious if anyone out there knows the answer to... I have a Sony CDP-CX151 100 disc CD changer. Although a wonderful product, it lacks any really fine control over the selections. In the back of this device there are what looks like two 1/8 inch female ports

Re: off-topic

1997-12-11 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Lawrence wrote: Anyone know where to get a VGA HD15/4-BNC cable? I want to connect my monitor's 4-BNC connectors to my PC video card. I'm guessing you're trying to use an old workstation monitor (Sun, HP, etc.). Beware that *some* of these monitors require special signaling or syncing.

Re: xdm....HELP!!!!!!???????

1997-12-11 Thread Alan Su
Brian V Bonini wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 14:28:59 -0500 ): |What I need to do is somehow stop xdm at boot up (I'm booting Linux from a |floppy) so I can get access to the console as root and delete the |.xsession file that resides in /root. Please HELP |Thanks |

Re: [Q] libICE

1997-12-11 Thread Paul
hi, there are 2 package where this file is. The package is xlib6-dev the other file you may need is xlib6. Paul ps if you want to find what package a file belongs to get the Contents file from debian. On 11 Dec 1997, Pedro Quaresma de Almeida wrote: Hi When I use dpkg I am getting the

Re: off-topic BNC vga cable

1997-12-11 Thread tony mollica
I saw these cables at a computer show. The vendor and description of the part is: SVGA Monitor Cable 6' S-VGA to 5 BNC use between VGA and hogh grade monitor connects VGA output to a variety of high-resolution monitors fully braided and shielded 5 BNC's cover all color and sync transmissions

raid0

1997-12-11 Thread dpk
I just compiled a 2.0.32 kernel with raid/linear support because I would like to strip 2 - 2 GB partitions. I downloaded md035.tar.gz from ftp://linux.nrao.edu/pub/linux/packages/MD-driver/, however I could not get it to compile. Here is the tail of my errors. In file included from

IP Aliasing

1997-12-11 Thread sclarke
Hello, Our upstream provider is forcing us to change our Class C. Now, we need to run two blocks parallel for awhile. We're running Debian Linux (2.0.32) and I was wondering how to set up an IP address alias. i.e. we want our eth0 card to have two different addresses. Any pointers on how to

Re: staroffice libc5

1997-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a eyryttyp4:hawk/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming that a minimum of libc5-5.4.38 is necessary.

Re: staroffice libc5

1997-12-11 Thread Mike
take me off this list! Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a eyryttyp4:hawk/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming

Re: staroffice libc5

1997-12-11 Thread Mike
take me off this list! Bob Nielsen wrote: On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, Rick Hawkins wrote: When I try to run the setup for StarOffice, I get a eyryttyp4:hawk/usr/lib/StarOffice-3.1/setup StarOffice3.1 Installation Tool Segmentation fault Today I saw a posting in a nesgroup claiming

Re: staroffice libc5

1997-12-11 Thread Rick Hawkins
Bob Nielsen wrote, I think the requirement is : 5.4.4. In anycase, it works fine for me with 5.4.33. The next magic question, is are you using hamm or bo, and should it make a difference? rick -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: raid0

1997-12-11 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997, dpk wrote: Try package mdutils, in section admin. Works for me on hamm, I've also used the bo version without trouble. HTH : I just compiled a 2.0.32 kernel with raid/linear support because I would : like to strip 2 - 2 GB partitions. I downloaded md035.tar.gz from :

Re: raid0

1997-12-11 Thread Ben Pfaff
I just compiled a 2.0.32 kernel with raid/linear support because I would like to strip 2 - 2 GB partitions. I downloaded md035.tar.gz from ftp://linux.nrao.edu/pub/linux/packages/MD-driver/, however I could not get it to compile. Here is the tail of my errors. Although you mention

Re: Debian Linux and Cirrus

1997-12-11 Thread Alex Yukhimets
I would like to know if the Debian Linux Distribution support the Cirrus 5446 Chipset ? In short: YES. Thanks a lot for such a quick answer. I have another question... I have got a CDD2600 CD Recorder and a Pioneer 12x SCSI CDROM on an Adaptec 1505. Could I have any problem to use

Re: IP Aliasing

1997-12-11 Thread sclarke
As a further note, we are using SCO and an older version of Slackware. On the Slackware machine, we compiled in a patch so that the command 'ifconfig net0 alias x.x.x.x' works. It works by default in SCO 5. I was hoping there's a way to do it on the linux box without patching anything. Thanks

Re: How to get slrn colored in xterm ?

1997-12-11 Thread Peter Prohaska
First of all, the COLORTERM entry did exactly what I was looking for. But why not adding something like that by default. Since it works for all slang programs I think it should get into a .deb-file. Its more easy to put a `#'-sign in front of some lines than searching for the correct variable

Re: Are 120 MB diskspace enough?

1997-12-11 Thread Peter Prohaska
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Thomas Apel wrote: Hi all! I'm going to set up a server for some network-experiments. The machine shall run a mail and database-server and perhaps a web-server. For the possible hardware I'm offered a 486 DX2/66, 16 MB RAM, 120 MB HDD. Now the question is: Are 120 MB

CAT 5

1997-12-11 Thread m*
should CAT 5 cable testers be considered a necessity when installing fast ethernet cables? thx, m* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: staroffice libc5

1997-12-11 Thread Alan Su
This is odd...the level of civility on this list is astounding. On any other list I've been on, if someone were to write this, they would immediately be ``punished''. this is almost disconcerting...=) Mike wrote (Thu, 11 Dec 1997 15:49:27 -0600 ): |take me off this list! | Mike, and anyone

Re: CAT 5

1997-12-11 Thread Kevin Traas
should CAT 5 cable testers be considered a necessity when installing fast ethernet cables? ???!!! That's like asking should I make sure the guy who cuts my hair passed the course? i.e. does it really matter? Guess it depends on the haircut you want ;-) My opinion, though... Try the

Re: CAT 5

1997-12-11 Thread Lawrence
If the cable is CAT5 certified, you don't need a cable testers installing a fast ethernet cables, though it won't harm if you have a tester handy. m* wrote: should CAT 5 cable testers be considered a necessity when installing fast ethernet cables? -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST:

Re: CAT 5

1997-12-11 Thread bruce
The most common mistake is that pairs are reversed when punched down on the connector. If you can get past that, you can probably find bad cable using your computer Isn't it funny how so few of these cables are shielded? Shielded cables, grounded only at one end (to prevent ground loops), would

Re: Help with using a remote xserver

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Wed, 10 Dec 1997, Ronald L. Zerbe Jr. wrote: uncompressed the file? Anyhelp? tired of this win95 Xserver that only gives u 30 minute connections. You should try the xserver from frontiertech called superx. The best thing I found from win32 machines. Usually also the first programm I

Re: IP Aliasing

1997-12-11 Thread Martin Bialasinski
On Thu, 11 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Our upstream provider is forcing us to change our Class C. Now, we need to run two blocks parallel for awhile. We're running Debian Linux (2.0.32) and I was wondering how to set up an IP address alias. i.e. we want our eth0 card to have two

RE: Are 120 MB diskspace enough?

1997-12-11 Thread Neilen Marais
Hi Thomas Hi all! I'm going to set up a server for some network-experiments. The machine shall run a mail and database-server and perhaps a web-server. For the possible hardware I'm offered a 486 DX2/66, 16 MB RAM, 120 MB HDD. Now the question is: Are 120 MB disk-space sufficient? I have my

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