Ghostscript 5 for 1.3.1 working?

1997-12-19 Thread Britton
I installed gs 5 a while ago, but I havn't been able to make it work with my Epson Stylus Color 600. When I install the package, it says that it can't be configured (for reason which I forget at the moment). It seems to try to work though, but I can't figure out how to make the new unified

kernel-module version mismatch...

1997-12-19 Thread David Puryear
Hi, When I try insmod paride, which was compiled my me running kernel 2.0.32 and /usr/src/linux is link against 2.0.32 kernel, I get this error: /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/paride.o: kernel-module version mismatch /lib/modules/2.0.32/misc/paride.o was compiled for kernel version 2.0.29

Printing

1997-12-19 Thread Toth Laszlo
Hi! I've got a Canon BJ-200ex printer. Can I use it under LINUX? I have used ghostscript 5.03 and magicfilter, but it doesn't working! ghostscript_5.03-3_i386.deb (I've done it with alien) magicfilter_1.2-10.deb This is my /etc/printcap file: (magicfilterconfig) lp|bj|bj200|Canon BJ-200ex:\

scsi problems, ncr53x8xx and 2+ devices resets bus

1997-12-19 Thread Craig Sanders
I've just added a SONY SDT-5000 DDS-2 tape drive to my system, and am getting a lot of scsi bus resets whenever two or more scsi devices are accessed simultaneously. At first i thought it was just the tape drive, but i tested various combinations of hardware and can reproduce the error by using

Re: kernel-module version mismatch...

1997-12-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I take it these are third party kernel modules you are trying to compile and run. Welcome to the bleeding edge. Firstly, this is likely to be tricky. Secondly, you need to compile the module using the 2.0.32 kernel header files (judicious use of -I/usr/src/linux/include/ in

a few questions...

1997-12-19 Thread Vaclav Hula
Hi... I have Debian/hamm box at home, and I have a problem: When I try to print, I do: lpr file it hangs and strace lpr file stops at connect(4, {sin_family=AF_INET, sin_port=htons(515), sin_addr=inet_addr(195.113.48.42)}, 16 unfinished ... (195.113.48.42 is invalid adress used during

3c503 module

1997-12-19 Thread Aaron Walker
I just re-installed Debian 1.3.1 and I installed the kernel module for a 3c503 EtherLink II/16 bit ethernet card. It detected it fine. When I booted off the floppy, it says: 3c503 That's it. It says this when loading the modules. If it helps, I'm using Debian 1.3.1 on a 486SX/25 with 8MB

Re: Printing

1997-12-19 Thread Britton
I don't know about you, but when I tried to install GS 5 (the libc 5 package anyway) I got an error saying the package couldn't be configured (though GS 4 was configured, as far as I know). Did you get this? Could it be responsible for your problem? On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Toth Laszlo wrote:

Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

1997-12-19 Thread Joel Klecker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Regarding bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD of 03:26 AM -0800 1997-12-17, Christian Hagemeier wrote: 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

sendmail installation

1997-12-19 Thread Timothy Phan
Hi, I've just install the debian 1.3.1.r6 on a new harddrive and the sendmail gave me some error: (PLEASE HELP) --8 # dpkg -i /pub/debian/bo/binary-i386/mail/sendmail_8.8.5-1.deb Selecting previously deselected package

Re: dselect question

1997-12-19 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
I wanted to use dselect because it could show me dependencies and suggestions, before it tried to install them. I grabbed a few packages and it turned out they had some dependencies I did not expect. So I had a half installed package left behind. Thought dselect might have helped here.

Debian Linux in Compaq Armada 7300

1997-12-19 Thread Multamäki
I´m just installing debian linux to my Compaq Armada 7300 series laptop. I suppose there will be some slight problems with network cards (I´m using compaq netplex 10/100 integrated on the docking station and PCMCIA 3C589D.) and possibly with display adapter. I´m interested to hear if someone

Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .

1997-12-19 Thread cs51wcs
I'm wondering is it possible to start X-Windows in multiple virtual consoles and if so how. Thanks. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

dpkg and deb files

1997-12-19 Thread Rick
HI (Me again) I am still having major problems with dpkg and deb files, as suggested i have re downloaded the deb files several times, both with cute ftp (in binary mode) and msie, yet when ever i try to install them with dpkg i always get the same error messages. unexpected eof, something about

Re: xcdroast is using cdwrite - why?

1997-12-19 Thread Peter Allgeyer
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : 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

TFTP booting

1997-12-19 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez Hernandez
Hi, I was wondering if someone can give me any pointers as to how to set up a Debian host to act as a server for an NCD X-Terminal that boots through TFTP. Thanks, Luis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: /usr full !?

1997-12-19 Thread tko
Mario Filipe writes: Hi 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

Re: Printing

1997-12-19 Thread Toth Laszlo
Hi! I tried out , what you said. #dpkg -i ghostscript_5.03-3_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package ghostscript. (Reading database ... 16188 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking ghostscript (from ghostscript_5.03-3_i386.deb) ... Setting up ghostscript (5.03-3) ... #

xcdroast and generic scsi

1997-12-19 Thread Michael Stutz
I'm having a problem getting xcdroast to start -- I get this message: Error: Some or all Generic-SCSI-Devices are missing. Please create first the devices. Run ./MAKEDEV.sg in the xcdroast-0.95c directory. Trouble is, there _is_ no xcdroast-0.95c directory. The MAKEDEV.sg script is not

Filter

1997-12-19 Thread Toth Laszlo
Hi! I tried out my old Epson FX-1000, with epson9 filter, and It works. I used this gs: gs-aladdin_5.03-0.99_i386.deb and magicfilter: magicfilter_1.2-10.deb The Canon BJ-200ex, doesn't work with bj200 filter. I think, this printer can't work under Linux.Is this right? Corleone Ui: Does HP L5

Re: Filter

1997-12-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 02:36:19PM +0100, Toth Laszlo wrote: Ui: Does HP L5 printer work under Linux? Do you mean 5L? Works great. Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Debian packages at ftp://ftp.rising.com.au/pub/hamish. PGP#EFA6B9D5 CCs

Re: Filter

1997-12-19 Thread Toth Laszlo
Hi! Yes 5L. :)) What do you use for it? Corleone -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

tar: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread Aaron Walker
I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: tar: Skipping to next header file gzip: linux-2.0.33.tgz: invalid compressed data---crc error tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary I used the following commands to try to uncompress the

Re: tar: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread dpk
Try using tar -zxvf linux-2.0.33.tgz. If you get that error again, it means that the file is corrupted and you will have to download the source again. All the kernel sources I download come with a tar.gz extension... I get them usually from kernel.org or sunsite. Did someone else package that

Perl installation problem

1997-12-19 Thread Robert D. Hilliard
While testing the upgrading of rex to hamm I have discovered several problems or possible bugs. I will post each of these as separate messages, and ask if anyone else has encountered them, and if they should be reported as bugs. While updating perl 5.003.07-10 using

dselect thru SOCKS4 firewall

1997-12-19 Thread Stephen P. Serafin
After installing libsocks4_4.3.beta2-3 and socks-clients_4.3.beta2-3, setting up /etc/socks.conf, and setting the SOCKS_NS and SOCKS_SERVER environment variables I can rftp through the SOCKS firewall to the internet. dftp and dselect do not connect to servers on the internet though. After

Changing the domain

1997-12-19 Thread Sébastien Phélep
Hi, I was wondering about the way one can manually change the domain name of a debian system. On other systems, I was used to have an /etc/domain file, or something similar, but not with debian. I do change the fqdn of my host in the files /etc/hosts and the local domain name in /etc/resolv.conf.

changing group IDs

1997-12-19 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! Would anything brake if I changed the ID of group 'disk' to 8 and the ID of group 'mail' to 6. Of course, I would make sure all the files get their ID's changed as well. I already posted this question once, but got no answer. Should I be asking questions like this on a different

compiling autofs

1997-12-19 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I'm trying to compile the hamm version of autofs on my bo system (since there does'nt seem to be a debian package for bo). This is what I get: ... gcc -shared -O3 -fomit-frame-pointer -Wall -I../include -fpic -DAUTOFS_LIB_DIR=\/usr/lib/autofs\ -o lookup_yp.so lookup_yp.c

Re: tar: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread Aaron Walker
What you suggested did not work, so I downloaded the source again (from kernel.org). Now it says: tar: Skipping to next header file It doesn't say anything else like last time. It just ends and goes back to the prompt. Any ideas? dpk wrote: Try using tar -zxvf linux-2.0.33.tgz. If you get

Re: tar: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think you should download the sources from a different site perhaps? I've had good results from ftp.kernel.org. manoj -- Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done. James J. Ling Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg and deb files

1997-12-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Which ftp site have you been using? Are *all* the deb files apparently corrupted? manoj -- EXCLUSIVE: Imported product. Manoj Srivastava [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.datasync.com/%7Esrivasta/ Key C7261095 fingerprint = CB D9 F4 12 68 07 E4 05 CC 2D 27 12 1D F5 E8 6E

Re: tar: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread Aaron Walker
I have downloaded linux-2.0.33.tar.gz from kernel.org twice and neither one has worked. Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I think you should download the sources from a different site perhaps? I've had good results from ftp.kernel.org. manoj -- Don't tell me how hard you

Re:tar: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread Butch Kemper
At 08:19 -0600 on 12/19/97, Aaron Walker wrote: I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: tar: Skipping to next header file gzip: linux-2.0.33.tgz: invalid compressed data---crc error tar: Archive - EOF not on block boundary

Re: sendmail installation

1997-12-19 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:54:47 CST, wrote: Hi, I've just install the debian 1.3.1.r6 on a new harddrive and the sendmail gave me some error: (PLEASE HELP) --8 # dpkg -i

Re: sendmail installation

1997-12-19 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 00:54:47 CST, wrote: Hi, I've just install the debian 1.3.1.r6 on a new harddrive and the sendmail gave me some error: (PLEASE HELP) --8 # dpkg -i

Re: tar: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Aaron Walker wrote: Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, I think you should download the sources from a different site perhaps? I've had good results from ftp.kernel.org. I have downloaded linux-2.0.33.tar.gz from kernel.org twice and neither one has worked.

Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .

1997-12-19 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 08:24:50 +0300, cs51wcs wrote: I'm wondering is it possible to start X-Windows in multiple virtual consoles and if so how. Thanks. Hi Scott, This worked for me (I tried other ways and this was the only way): Ctrl-Alt-F2 (from within X, to get to VC2) ..then login..

Re: bootable Debian 1.3.1 CD

1997-12-19 Thread Frank Barknecht
Christian Hagemeier hat gesagt: // Christian Hagemeier wrote: 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 Debian-CDs are bootable, at least

kernel panic

1997-12-19 Thread Tim Sailer
I have a machine running (sorta) that with kernel 2.0.29 runs fine for a long time, but with .30 or .32, it panics after a few hours with errors on the screen something about SKPUT (I dnd't get a chance to write them down.). Nothing gets written to the logs. Does anyone have a pointer? Tim --

Re: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 9:44 AM Subject: tar: Skipping to next header file I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and

Re: dpkg and deb files

1997-12-19 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 6:01 AM Subject: dpkg and deb files HI (Me again) I am still having major problems with dpkg and deb files, as suggested i have re downloaded the

Re: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread Adam Heath
-Original Message- From: Aaron Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian User List debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Friday, December 19, 1997 9:44 AM Subject: tar: Skipping to next header file I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and

Re: dpkg and deb files

1997-12-19 Thread David Stern
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 10:38:50 GMT, Rick wrote: HI (Me again) I am still having major problems with dpkg and deb files, as suggested i have re downloaded the deb files several times, both with cute ftp (in binary mode) and msie, yet when ever i try to install them with dpkg i

digest list and GLX extensions

1997-12-19 Thread Gary L . Hennigan
I have a couple of unrelated questions. First, I subscribe to the digest version of this list (debian-user-digest) and it seems to be broken (at least I haven't gotten anything from it in about a week). I sent email to debian-user-request about the problem yesterday and haven't heard anything

Re: Partitioning

1997-12-19 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Wed, Dec 17, 1997 at 01:12:08PM +0100, Gertjan Klein wrote: [snip] DOS (and W95) require to be booted from drive C: (ignoring floppies again). During booting, at some stage before processing config.sys, it switches from loading files from the actual boot drive to loading them from

Re: I burst my LILO (new user)

1997-12-19 Thread David Gaudine
On Thu, 18 Dec 1997, ADRIAN CLAYTON wrote: Having installed from diskimage floppies, I accidentally deleted some stuff (in the /dpkg directory) and decided to start over again. Since I reinstalled, LILO sticks every time I boot from harddisk. I then also imported LOADLIN~.DEB and configured

Re: scsi problems, ncr53x8xx and 2+ devices resets bus

1997-12-19 Thread Gerard Roudier
Craig, Here are 2 driver messages from your report and what they let me think: Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0:0: ERROR (a0:0) (47-67-80) (8/33) @ script (628:0f00). Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0: script cmd = 6040 DSTAT= 0xa0 - bit 0x20 means PCI BUS

Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .

1997-12-19 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 19-Dec-97 David Stern wrote: On Fri, 19 Dec 1997 08:24:50 +0300, cs51wcs wrote: I'm wondering is it possible to start X-Windows in multiple virtual consoles and if so how. Thanks. Hi Scott, This worked for me (I tried other ways and this was the only way): Ctrl-Alt-F2 (from within X, to

Xlock

1997-12-19 Thread Kevin J Poorman
Hi, I just installed the new version of Xlock on my computer ... And now when I type xlock -mode flag it thinks for a second (or two it's only a lowly 486) and then spits out the message Unable to determine hostbyname What does this mean ... how do I fix it TIA -Kevin, kc5vxy [EMAIL

Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .

1997-12-19 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Are you really, really sure you did not forget the space after those two slashes. I use the command almost every day and it works just fine. However, if if type startx --:1 ^^^-- note, no space after the second slash I get the same error as you about X already being active for display

Re:tar: Skipping to next header file

1997-12-19 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 19-Dec-97 Butch Kemper wrote: At 08:19 -0600 on 12/19/97, Aaron Walker wrote: I am trying to unpack the newest kernel source in /usr/src. It goes along fine until it stops and says: snip The message from gzip makes me think the file was not downloaded as a binary file but as a text file.

Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .

1997-12-19 Thread Ralph Winslow
On 19-Dec-97 Heikki Vatiainen wrote: Are you really, really sure you did not forget the space after those two slashes. I use the command almost every day and it works just fine. However, if if type Yep, I'm absolutely certain - I entered: startx -- :1 the only spaces were between x and --

vxtreme through linux firewall

1997-12-19 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I have a linux server and NT4.0 workstation clients. I use IP forwarding for the NT clients. Realaudio, regular ftp and http connection works fine. vxtreme does not work: It make the connection but fails to transfer the data I get the message that I should call the system administrator to set

dpkg and deb files, Thanks

1997-12-19 Thread Rick
Hi, Thanks to a suggestion i have managed to sucessfully install some deb files from a mounted vfat\msdos partition! Hurrah! There were still some err messages when installing man-db, but they we only about not finding some language files, everything works fine! the command i used to mount the

Emacs RCS under 1.3.1r6

1997-12-19 Thread Glenn Amerine
I did a quick search in the bugs and couldn't find anything about this problem. If I try to generate a ChangeLog file via C-x v a works fine on the initial run. After a changelog exists, I get this at the top of the changelog buffer; rlog: unknown date/time: 19/12/1997 23:41:45 rlog aborted I

Help I broke my X instalation.

1997-12-19 Thread Kevin J Poorman
AHHH I very very carefully followed the instructions in the lic5-lic6-Mini-HOWTO.txt and upgraded to libc6 today Great I thought that the Packagename and the packagenameg files could coexist ... apearntly not ... the xlib6g replaced my xlib6 package rendering my x instalation

Re: Filter

1997-12-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Fri, Dec 19, 1997 at 02:43:34PM +0100, Toth Laszlo wrote: Yes 5L. :)) What do you use for it? Not that much. Printing from Windows apps via samba (Office97 as well as SmartSuite 97), and also printing from Linux apps with magicfilter/ghostscript doing conversion, eg from Navigator 3.

Re: Is it possible to start X Windows in multiple V/C .

1997-12-19 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep, I'm absolutely certain - I entered: startx -- :1 the only spaces were between x and -- and between -- and :1 three tokens, and I just re-tried to be absolutely certain. Oops, this time I ran as root and voila, it worked! So I tried it

Re: scsi problems, ncr53x8xx and 2+ devices resets bus

1997-12-19 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, Gerard Roudier wrote: Here are 2 driver messages from your report and what they let me think: Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0:0: ERROR (a0:0) (47-67-80) (8/33) @ script (628:0f00). Dec 19 12:24:24 siva kernel: ncr53c810-0: script cmd = 6040