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Failing that, how do you convert gifs etc. into eps? The book tells me how
to deal with that format (= encapsulated postscript?)
See the netpbm package. For example, you can do the following:
giftopnm some.gif | pnmtops some.eps
For JPEG files, try
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, K.Y.Lo wrote:
I have installed X11 packages
it says XF86Setup
Not all of the Configuration and application default files are
installed.
The file /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc is missing.
/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit should be a symlink to /etc/X11/xinit
also
cs51wcs writes:
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.
If you use the tcsh as your shell...
[1:42] Ørn:~ set
addsuffix
argv()
cwd /home/oehansen
dirstack
just add the following to /etc/pcmcia/config:
card Gateway 2000 Telepath Combo Card
version GATEWAY2000,XJEM3336,Telepath Combo Card
bind smc91c92_cs,serial_cs
works fine here with pcmcia-cs version 2.9.12 (also it worked with 10
and 11).
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Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question:
What package contains XF86Setup? The man page is in xbase, but that is
all.
Bob
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Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question:
What package contains XF86Setup? The man page is in xbase, but that is
all.
It's in xserver-vga16.
Alex Y.
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On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question:
What package contains XF86Setup? The man page is in xbase, but that is
all.
It's in xserver-vga16.
Does it only work with the vga16 server (I use xserver-svga)?
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Alex Yukhimets wrote:
Since there has been a lot of discussion on this, I have a basic question:
What package contains XF86Setup? The man page is in xbase, but that is
all.
It's in xserver-vga16.
Does it only work with the vga16 server (I use
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Bob Nielsen wrote:
It's in xserver-vga16.
Does it only work with the vga16 server (I use xserver-svga)?
Yes, you have to install vga16 to use XF86Setup. But you can install it
AND xserver-svga at the same time, so it's not a problem.
okay, i actually have windows perfectly up and running now, but i'm
missing my other partitions, so i'm left with only one gig. i have a few
questions. if you have time, could you please answer them in a detailed
step by step format?
1: How do i repartition it so i have 2 gigs for windows, and 1
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Alan Woo wrote:
missing my other partitions, so i'm left with only one gig. i have a few
questions. if you have time, could you please answer them in a detailed
step by step format?
1: How do i repartition it so i have 2 gigs for windows, and 1 for
linux?
Which other
hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to
say an alternative email address. Thanks for everything.
Paul
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: I just installed Debian 1.3.1 on my 486 w/4MB RAM. I made Debian hard
: drive bootable because it's the only drive in the system. When I
: rebooted, I got this message:
:
: 3FA:
:
: This is all it says. Even when I try to boot off my boot disk, it says
:
Whenever I try to boot the system I get the following message:
Kernal Panic: VFS: unable to mount root fs or 01:00
If you have any suggestions please tell me.
Thanks,
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In Pine's configuration, look for custom-hdrs or something like that
and add the value:
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Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to
say an alternative email address. Thanks for everything.
Paul
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Last night I began upgrading my Debian 1.1 system to 1.3.1. The upgrade came
off of InfoMagic's LDR August 1997 release CD's. I read and followed the
counsel from the Kernel-HOWTO (v0.80, 26 May 1997) and from Linus Torvalds'
README in the top of the source tree (ls -l gave 25 May 1997 as the
i'm experimenting with another dialup connection at the moment, this time
to the new dialin servers at my new job. they're cisco 5200 boxes, which
get their authentication details from a radius server.
i've tried crypted and plaintext secrets but keep on getting an
Authentication Failure
hey all,
i have tried several things to get x-windows up and running, but it
enver works. Can someone please give me step by step directions right
from the start of how i can do this, even if i have to reinstall linux?
I've done everything i thought i was supposed to, but it can never find
an
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Alan Woo wrote:
hey all,
i have tried several things to get x-windows up and running, but it
enver works. Can someone please give me step by step directions right
from the start of how i can do this, even if i have to reinstall linux?
What problem in particular are you
okay, i've been playing around iwth it a bit, and here's what i think
ineed to do: make sure the directory is browsed by the network (the
X11R6 (?) one, i think). how would i do this? if that doesnt work, any
other suggestions? i've installed the x-vgaserver and xsvga...
thanks in advance,
Alan
I'm having trouble getting a silly little program called 'cpuload' to
compile under hamm. It's just a little app that sits in the Afterstep
Wharf and shows the system load as a colored bar.
The program compiles fine on a libc5 system, but on hamm, the
configure.in tests for a function in libXpm
On 16 Dec 1997, Brian Mays wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Failing that, how do you convert gifs etc. into eps? The book tells me how
to deal with that format (= encapsulated postscript?)
See the netpbm package. For example, you can do the following:
giftopnm some.gif |
On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 02:42:15PM -0500, Paul asked:
Hi everybody, Is there a package that will converts *.pdf files to text
file format. Thanks in advance.
On Tue, Dec 16, 1997 at 10:05:23PM +0200, Heikki Vatiainen suggested:
I have pdftotext installed, it comes with the xpdf package. If
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How does one place gifs, jpegs into a LaTeX document? The book I have
(The LaTeX Companion) mentions a graphics package but says its under
development. However, the book is a few years old, so maybe it's been
developed.
Yep, it has. Works
Àlex Maneu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
-I want to put a picture as the background of X-Windows, or simply
change the background color. Where is it specified? Which files must
I edit?
Probably in ~/.xsession, i.e. the .xsession file in your home
directory. Something like:
#!/bin/sh
xsetbg
Brian V Bonini [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I started to set up the .xsession file and
instead of doing this for my user account until I got it right for some
reason I did it for my root account.
[snip]
As well as the other solutions mentioned (Ctrl-Alt-F1, su, linux
-single, rescue disk), you
Hi!
My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read that I
can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD? Or is the
Official CD such a bootable CD?
Chris
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My motherboard supports the feature to boot from a CD-ROM. I read that I
can install Debian this way. But how do i create such a CD? Or is the
Official CD such a bootable CD?
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Trouble?
What do I need to change to make the default file mode to rwx,rx,rx when
uploading via ftp? I'm using WU-FTP-Academ 2.4.2.13-0.
Thanks
Paul
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Adam Heath [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Snip requirements of W95 to boot from a partition]
Not true. Look below. All cut and pasted from Win95.
[Snip partition setup]
I gave the short version of the requirements, which I expected to
satisfy most readers ;-) I must admit I never thought of
hey all,
i have tried several things to get x-windows up and running, but it
enver works. Can someone please give me step by step directions right
from the start of how i can do this, even if i have to reinstall linux?
I've done everything i thought i was supposed to, but it can never find
Hi!
I've installed xcdroast from hamm and I'm trying to copy an audio cd.
Xcdroast is still using cdwrite - which isn't installed anymore. Even
worse cdwrite won't work with my cdwriter, only cdrecord does it.
What Do I need to do to let xcdroast use cdrecord?
Any help is appreciated.
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Paul wrote:
hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to
say an alternative email address. Thanks for everything.
Paul
I do this by setting the user-domain field in the config file. My
address is dwarf.polaris.net, but my provider collects my
I have installed X11 package completely but it has a problem.
Xserver_SVGA was installed ok, config it done then running xdm.
i tried to type 'startx' to say:
X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed.
i got a problem with that. What does that mean?
Thank alot.
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Email:
I was putting man page on Debian Linux. man page get error
man: can't open the manpath configuration file /etc/manpath.config
there is something's wrong?
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If you know that the SVGA server was installed ok and the XFree86
configuration file is ok, see /etc/X11/Xserver file.
The first line of the file tells which X server to run. For example my
/etc/X11/Xserver starts with:
/usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_SVGA
If the XFree86 config file is not ok, try
I forgot to put Microsoft mouse in Serial port but it was very funny
i see a pointer on X-windows.. it couldn't moving around the desktop.
How do I config /dev/mouse or XF86Setup?
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Hello,
I just installed Debian 1.3, the basic system plus whatever is required
to run fetchmail, ppp and diald only (everything I installed is from the
current stable distribution). I have two problems with cron:
1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file
and
Greetings! I've upgraded one debian machine to unstable for
development purposes. The other machines on our network, including
the NIS server, are running 'stable' or 'bo'. Briefly, I can login to
the unstable system with passwords passed over NIS, but I can't get
the system netgroup, which is
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Dale Scheetz wrote:
On Tue, 16 Dec 1997, Paul wrote:
hi everybody, is there a way to change the field from: in my headers to
say an alternative email address. Thanks for everything.
Paul
I do this by setting the user-domain field in the config file. My
address
X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed.
i got a problem with that. What does that mean?
I had that problem during one of my installs. Can't remember what I did to
cause it but I used dpkg to install the correct server for my card, ran
the xf86config routine and all was well.
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Hello,
I can't find this file in my system after installing the current stable
Debain 1.3. I looked into the Contents file of the distribution and is
not there neither. Isn't netstd the package that is supposed to
install it?
P. Sanchez
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Does the file /etc/manpath.config exist? Is it readable by the user you
are executing man as? Make sure you can answer yes to both of those,
if not, try reinstalling man-db.
Thanks,
Dennis
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Is this for anonymous ftp uploads? You can set this option in the
file /etc/ftpd/ftpaccess. You can change this with the ftp client
also... before you 'put filename' type 'umask 022'.
Dennis
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Kevin J Poorman writes:
Hi,
I am looking for a way to allow my computer to dial a pager and send the
number ... I was wondering if anyone had a way to do this via a shell
script or maybe there is a pager program ?... Debian Package?
Sam Leffler's program HylaFAX(tm) is supposed to
Try running gpmconfig as root. It will create the appropriate configuration.
But before you do that, make a symlink for /dev/mouse:
ln -s /dev/ttyS0 /dev/mouse
[assuming the mouse is on ttys0]
Tell gpm to use /dev/mouse, and then tell XF86Setup to use /dev/mouse.
WHile it workes with the
Orn E. Hansen wrote:
Kevin J Poorman writes:
Hi,
I am looking for a way to allow my computer to dial a pager and send the
number ... I was wondering if anyone had a way to do this via a shell
script or maybe there is a pager program ?... Debian Package?
Sam Leffler's
Hi Debian world,
Thank you for helping me about XF86Setup, Xserver_svga,x86config,xbase.
I had installed Debian Linux 1.3.1.r6 and X-windows package completely
without a CD rom and a CD. I am using FTP installation.
X-windows is now working for me. Well done Thank you, all Debian users.
I see
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Any help or suggestions would be appreciated because otherwise
I'm stuck and can't continue on with my software development.
The version of g++ that is available at debian isn't thread safe. It
*is* possible to have it work with threads, but as soon as you
On Sun, Dec 14, 1997 at 11:43:28PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just installed the latest unstable version of Debian on Saturday and am
either doing something wrong or I have found a bug. On top of this, I
have followed the mini-howto for upgrading from libc5 to libc6 and
installed all
I'm sure there's a simple answer somewhere to this, but after scouring the
spots I could think of, I can't find it.
Access to eyry.econ.iastate.edu is no problem; it happily brings up the
default page.
I then created /home/hawk/www, copied the index.html to it, and created a
symlink from
Hi Debian world,
Thank you for helping me about XF86Setup, Xserver_svga,x86config,xbase.
I had installed Debian Linux 1.3.1.r6 and X-windows package completely
without a CD rom and a CD. I am using FTP installation.
X-windows is now working for me. Well done Thank you, all Debian users.
Ben Gertzfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[ debian-user? ]
Erm, where did it go?
I broke xpm. Please see the logs for #14973.
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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: I'm sure there's a simple answer somewhere to this, but after scouring the
: spots I could think of, I can't find it.
:
: Access to eyry.econ.iastate.edu is no problem; it happily brings up the
: default page.
:
: I then created
Take a look at your Options directive(s) for the directories you wish
to access. It should contain FollowSymLinks if you wish symlinks to
work. (www.apache.org has all the docs; take a look at Options).
I had this
As far as using the ~hawk URL, what is your UserDir directive set to? I
oh, and thank you. hit the wrong key and sent it off.
rick
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... the 3Com589 LAN ethernet PCMCIA card driver isn't detected and its
installation crashes (with the drivers of the web site).
The installation process does not find the 3C589_cs module on the disk,
although it is mentioned.
Is the card being recognized? Have you configured the Ethernet
Has any information been posted to Debian users about the recent ppp
security issue of the default ppp.chatscript? Is there a list for
this or would it be appropriate to have the information posted here?
Just curious...
Dennis
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I have a question to pose and I hope I will tell you everything you need
to help me. I'm running Debian 1.3 (2.0.29). I was running x, pine (and a
xterm associated with it), a xterm and netscape 4.04 and an rc5 client,
plus apache, postgresql and all the other servers. One minute I had 30
Megs
Well, I am sure you can build your own.. but why bother. Go spend 9
bucks, and buy the CD SuperPack at Linux System Labs. I am not affilated
with them in any way, other than being a satisfied customer. If you
purchase the cd pack, you get 7 cds.
1) SlackWare 3.4
2) Red Hat (vr 5 I believe)
3)
Hi all,
I am having real problems installing packages, i decided that the man pages
would be a good place to start, so i downloaded - groff thingy, a lib
required by groff, man-db, and manpages.deb
i am trying to install them from a mounted msdos partition using dpkg
dpkg -i
Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
1. New entries that I add to /etc/crontab are ignored. I edited the file
and included the line
0 8,12,16 * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc
However this is never executed. Other than editing this file, is there
I wrote my message from the top of my head. I veryfied later and the entry
is actually
0 8,12,16, * * * root /usr/bin/fetchmail -f /home/sanchez/.fetchmailrc
Anyway, it still doesn't work.
P. Sanchez
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On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at
hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6. When I do
a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5. Any
suggestions? Where is the howto? I've been looking in the archives but
could not see any reference to it.
Paul
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I'm trying the /etc/crontab because the user's crontab files are not
executed. When they work (I hope they will!), then this fetchmail job
will be executed there. I tried creating the user crontabs both as
superuser (crontab -u sanchez -e) and from the user account (crontab
-e). There's no
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Pedro Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I can't find this file in my system after installing the current stable
Debain 1.3. I looked into the Contents file of the distribution and is
not there neither. Isn't netstd the package that is supposed to
install it?
Look at http://www.gate.net/~storm for the libc5 to libc6 howto.
On 17-Dec-97 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6. When I do
a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5. Any
suggestions? Where is the howto? I've been
OK, I've found the problem. It's how I configured netscape. rather than
rvplayer, the correct entry is rvplayer %s
However, i then stumbled across a site that wanted a plugin, and haven't
cracked that one yet.
rick
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On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Paul McDermott wrote:
hi everybody is there a howto on upgrading from libc5 to libc6. When I do
a dpkg -i of libc6.deb it tells me that it conflicts with libc5. Any
suggestions? Where is the howto? I've been looking in the archives but
could not see any reference to
I have been trying to install unstable, rather than stable. In hopes that I
might be able to avoid some of the libc5 to libc6 upgrade head aches.
Used wget to mirror debian ftp site, only i386, no source. Everything
works fine;
Access: OK, I linked
ln -s debian/hamm/hamm debian/hamm/stable
I have several Linux DNS servers, two of which have IP aliases on one
interface. Recently I upgraded from BIND 4.9.6 to BIND 8.1.1. One of the
subtle problems I have noticed is now the machines that have IP aliases
don't automatically update a zone when sent a notify by the primary
server.
I have been trying to install unstable, rather than stable. In hopes that I
might be able to avoid some of the libc5 to libc6 upgrade head aches.
Used wget to mirror debian ftp site, only i386, no source. Everything
works fine;
Access: OK, I linked
ln -s debian/hamm/hamm debian/hamm/stable
Hello everybody is there an Xvfb package for stable. I can find one for
unstable but not for stable. I don't want to upgrade totaly to unstable
just yet. Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Paul
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Gertjan Klein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[ . . .]
* All non-DOS partitions are completely ignored. This includes OS/2's
hidden DOS partitions.
[ . . . ]
An interesting anomaly is that the DOS command fdisk /status
will (sometimes?) show Linux partitions with DOS drive
I am using debian 1.3.1.
I recently upgraded to 128M ram from 32M ram. If I type
Linux mem=128m
then the memory is recognized (as indicated by top). However, if I add
an append line to my /etc/lilo.conf as shown below, my machine boots
with only 64M available, which is more than 32M, but not
Terrence Brannon writes:
I am using debian 1.3.1.
I recently upgraded to 128M ram from 32M ram. If I type
Linux mem=128m
then the memory is recognized (as indicated by top). However, if I add
an append line to my /etc/lilo.conf as shown below, my machine boots
with only 64M available,
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997, Rick wrote:
dpkg -i /dos-d/linux/packages/the_name_of_file.deb
Why don't you move them into /tmp?
all i get is error messages, when logged on as root messages about
unexpected eof,
Sounds like you're .deb file may have gotten truncated when you downloaded
it. Try just
Terrence Brannon wrote:
I am using debian 1.3.1.
I recently upgraded to 128M ram from 32M ram. If I type
Linux mem=128m
then the memory is recognized (as indicated by top). However, if I add
an append line to my /etc/lilo.conf as shown below, my machine boots
with only 64M available,
On Wed, 17 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK, I've found the problem. It's how I configured netscape. rather than
rvplayer, the correct entry is rvplayer %s
Is anyone having any trouble with this? I've got realplayer installed ok,
but the view of the videos is all wacky ... they look
When I boot kernel 2.0.33 on my machine, I get the following messages:
scsi0 : Adaptec AHA274x/284x/294x (EISA/VLB/PCI-Fast SCSI) 4.1.1/3.2.1
scsi : 1 host.
scsi0: Scanning channel A for devices.
Vendor: MICROPModel: 4743WSRev: S162
Type: Direct-Access
I'm trying to install Debian on a 386 Dx 40 with 4MB RAM.
When I booted up, it stoped with the system message:
RAMDISK: COmpressed image found at block 0
I downloaded the file lmemroot.bin and when I try to boot up it says that it
is an invalid boot disk
WHat should I do?
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I'm trying to install Debian on a 386 Dx 40 with 4MB RAM.
When I booted up, it stoped with the system message:
RAMDISK: COmpressed image found at block 0
I downloaded the file
Read the howto at http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ, Nope no use.
I have been trying to install unstable with dselect, rather than stable.
In hopes that I might be able to avoid some of the libc5 to libc6 upgrade
headaches.
Used wget to mirror debian/hamm, debian/bo, debian/contrib,
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