Trying to get sound support on a Toshiba 220 CS (which seems to
have a Yamaha OPL3-SA3), I checked a few WWW pages on Toshiba laptops,
some of which with suggestions which were quite valuable, such as
http://www.cck.uni-kl.de/misc/tecra710/ and
http://www.suse.de/~rj/english/tosh440CDX.html
I have set the ppp debian package
My modem is responding when I use minicom
I have completed the /etc/ppp/options file properly.
And when I run the command pppd the kernel answers
Sorry - Lack of PPP in your kernel
Or when I type dmesh | grep PPP I have no answer
What shall I do to activate the
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Larry Owens wrote:
Does anyone know if it is possible to install debian on a PC that does
not have a video card or keyboard? I would like to set up a linux
system that would use a modem attatched to a serial port as the only
console.
I have used the serial-console patch
OSWALD jean [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have set the ppp debian package
My modem is responding when I use minicom
I have completed the /etc/ppp/options file properly.
And when I run the command pppd the kernel answers
Sorry - Lack of PPP in your kernel
Or when I type dmesh | grep PPP I
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 04:10:46PM -0800, Richard Sevenich wrote:
I have a friend with the subject machine and may try to install debian.
However, there are two warning labels on the box:
* intel inside
* Designed for Microsoft Windows 95
and the second label has me concerned
On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
Hi-
I am having no luck getting a new ethernet card up. I just installed a
new card with a DEC tulip chip and I can't get it working. Does anyone
have a tulip card working? If so, could you share with me how you got
it running?
I am
I recently got VArStation YMP from VA Research. (I've been quite
happy with it so far.) It came with Debian pre-installed (see
http://www.debian.org/news.html).
Anyway, I accidently deleted the X server for the Matrox
Millenium II graphics card.* Judging from the old status files,
the package
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Jose Manuel Cerqueira Esteves wrote:
I downloaded the evaluation version of OSS for the kernel 2.0.33, in order
to try it on a Toshiba 220CS, but `oss-install' failed, giving the output
reproduced below (I also append the resulting contents of soundon.log).
Since I
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, OSWALD jean wrote:
I have set the ppp debian package
My modem is responding when I use minicom
I have completed the /etc/ppp/options file properly.
And when I run the command pppd the kernel answers
Sorry - Lack of PPP in your kernel
Or when I type dmesh | grep PPP I
Incoming, from Robert Moody
This might be a little off topic [certification]
qulifications, similar to Novells CNA, CNE and Microsofts MCSE. If
there are could someone point me in the right direction.
As much as I disdain certification, RedHat and Linux Journal were
doing something about
Hello,
I am sorry if this is off-topic for this list, but I was wondering if
Debian is already conforming to the 86open initiative.
(what library/libraries are being changed for the conformance?)
Thank you
Milan Zimmermann
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that anwser. It works too (i did need to do the reboot BTW)
Thanks again!
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On 6 Jan 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
» In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
» Christian Hammers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
» Hi !
Incoming, from OSWALD jean
I have set the ppp debian package
My modem is responding when I use minicom
I have completed the /etc/ppp/options file properly.
And when I run the command pppd the kernel answers
Sorry - Lack of PPP in your kernel
Or when I type dmesh | grep PPP I have no
I believe that I have found a bug in 2.1.x kernels that is rather serious.
In short, read(fd, buffer, 0) returns a -1 with errno = EAGAIN.
According to the manpage, read(fd, buffer, 0) should *always* return 0
From the manpage:
If count is zero, read() returns zero and has no other
I recently switched to debian 1.31 (from a homebrew system based
loosely on slackware), and with it came bash 2.x, which I had been
avoiding for irrational reasons - or maybe not. I installed Netscape
Communicator 4.04 and the Real Audio player (v5.02beta, the latest),
and followed the directions
Hi:
I'm looking for CL Video drivers for X11 that will drive 1024x768, anybody
got 'em or know their whereabouts?
Regards
Dave
PS: My 1st look at LINUX - looks good.
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Hi all,
I have just installed Linux on my Cyrix 200-based computer with
an S3 Trio64V+ card. XF86Setup runs smoothly. Unfortunately, when
I run startx, I receive the error message:
X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed
xdm aborts almost immediately without telling me anything. Just typing
jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I recently switched to debian 1.31 (from a homebrew system based
loosely on slackware), and with it came bash 2.x, which I had been
avoiding for irrational reasons - or maybe not. I installed Netscape
Communicator 4.04 and the Real Audio player (v5.02beta, the
On 6 Jan 1998, Mark Montague wrote:
I had the same problem and ended up replacing sh with bash 1.14.5(1),
which I had lying around from an old slackware backup or something. I
don't think this is a good solution, though.
I saw some old discussion claiming that this is a netscape bug, but
Hi,
If a few of you could send me your status files from a clean bo system
that is not running any hamm stuff that also has X windows I would be most
appreciative.
The file I am interested in is /var/lib/dpkg/status, it contains your
package selections. I am going to be using them to test out
Mark Montague [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've established that Communicator always fires off helper apps using
similar syntax by invoking /bin/sh. My question is, if I were to
replace /bin/sh (which is a symlink to /bin/bash) with something else
(ash, or
On Mon, 6 Jan 1997, Asher Haig wrote:
I'm trying to set my laptop up (Dell Latitude 166M) so that I can use the
standard suspend feature to put it into suspend mode. (Fn-suspend)
I have already installed APMD.
Did you compile APM support into your kernel? The stock Debian kernels
don't
Knews receives articles wonderfully.
However, whenever I try to reply to mail, I get the message
Domain name not available, posting will not be allowed!
Of course, there is a domain-name problem of some sort.
My domain-name should be something like mnsinc.com.
In the mail-user-agents of
Hi,
Anyone has any experience with Debian/Linux on laptop.
I'd like to know which laptop has the least problem
with running Debian/Linux and X11.
Please post brand name, configuration, etc.. Thanks!
Timothy C. phan
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On Fri, 2 Jan 1998, Steve Hsieh wrote:
John,
On the IBM thinkpad 760, you must use the tecra boot disk in the
special directory, and not the standard bootdisk. If you build your
own kernel, you must build it with 'make zimage' and not 'make
bzimage'.
I am currently using RedHat 4.1 at home and have 5.0 running at work
(I work at the biggest Windows NT Domain int he country (or so I hear)
they would shit if they knew I had a linux box on my desk)
I am starting to get tired of RedHat...I mean...they are pretty good.
Never really had much
Hi,
I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I
can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping
someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
1.) How do I insert a newline character in a double-quoted string?
2.) What is a good method to
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 09:35:16PM -0500, Milan Zimmermann wrote:
I am sorry if this is off-topic for this list, but I was wondering if
Debian is already conforming to the 86open initiative.
The 86open initative (http://www.telly.org/86open/) has not released specs
yet AFAIK. Given that one of
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 12:31:03AM +, iquest wrote:
Hi,
Anyone has any experience with Debian/Linux on laptop.
I'd like to know which laptop has the least problem
with running Debian/Linux and X11.
Please post brand name, configuration, etc.. Thanks!
You should take a look
Hi,
I am using Debian 1.3 since six months and am happy with the distribution.
I have a couple of problems for which I need some help:
1. I have installed offix-files for which there is manpage files.1x.gz in
/usr/X11R6/man/man1. But 'man files' says 'No manual entry...' I also get
a message
On Tue, Jan 06, 1998 at 07:20:32PM -0700, Bob Nielsen wrote:
It often doesn't really matter, but I recently had to do this in order to
compile some utilities which were dependent on the symlinks (although I
could have rewritten the Makefile to eliminate the check, although I don't
know what
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 09:18:09AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
See http://www.telly.org/86open/86open-faq.html: the 86open initiative is an
initiative to standardise the C library API.
Is that all? Binary compatibility would be super. I think commercial
companies would like to just target
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, David Phillips wrote:
I'm looking for CL Video drivers for X11 that will drive 1024x768, anybody
got 'em or know their whereabouts?
I think it is in xserver-svga
Regards.
Johann
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I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I
can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping
someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
Hi David.
Try this link for an intro to Bourne shell scripts.
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Dana M. Epp wrote:
Does somebody know some user friendly program to use IRC , like mIrc , for
You might try zircon.
FWIW, I just set this irc program up on a herc amber 386
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Hi,
I am using Debian 1.3 since six months and am happy with the distribution.
I have a couple of problems for which I need some help:
1. I have installed offix-files for which there is manpage files.1x.gz in
/usr/X11R6/man/man1. But 'man files' says 'No manual entry...' I also get
a
Hello,
I am seeking assistance in configuring PPP 2.3.2 for demand
dialing. My setup works up until I add the demand option and the remote ip
to the options file. PPP will even initiate the link and will dial only
when there is data to be transmitted, which is the correct behaviour. PPP
While trying (and failing) to get my no-name (well KTI networks)
PnP PCI Ethernet card to work, I noticed this:
$ cat interrupts
0: 87414006 timer
1: 799266 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
3:6901359 + serial
4: 462426 + serial
5: 16194 sound blaster
8: 0
Harald Helfgott [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi all,
I have just installed Linux on my Cyrix 200-based computer with
an S3 Trio64V+ card. XF86Setup runs smoothly. Unfortunately, when
I run startx, I receive the error message:
X: exec of /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_NONE failed
I seems you have
I have made myself an executable octave script called octave_test.mex and
made it executable with chmodand the #!/interpreterpath mechanism. On
both Red Hat and Debian, typing ./octave_test.mex runs the script as
expected. I made also a c code wrapper for this program, so as to obey
the letter
I think it is supposed to be like that. It is like that on my system and I
think this has been asked before and it was mentioned in the list that
for some reason it appears so in /proc/interrupts
George
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Britton wrote:
While trying (and
Hi,
Maybe this a little off topic, but ...
I had succeed in running jdk.1.1 applets w/ appletviewer under
my Debian box.
When I try to run them from communicator 4.04 I got errors like:
- Class not found
- security violation - method verification ...
Hi there.
I've installed Netscape 4.04 by hand and i'm getting trouble running
helper applications. The command that Netscape issue is something like
sh ((foo /tmp/bar); rm /tmp/bar) and if i run that command directly from
the BASH command prompt it fails but if i do the same in tcsh it works.
I
Hi,
I have been runing linux on that chip for ages now and I don't seem to
have noticed this problem. See if you can borrow a similar chip from
someone or fit your chip into another mother board ... ...
Cheers
Jonathan
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've run into a
Is the list alive? I haven't received a post since yesterday.
Brian
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Hi all,
I'm having trouble with a NFS client: when I try to mount /home from my
server, I get the following error:
mount clntudp_create: RPC: Port mapper failure - RPC: Unable to receive
Both the server and the clients run Debian 1.3.1, have network support
correctly enabled (NIS and FTPed
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Britton wrote:
While trying (and failing) to get my no-name (well KTI networks)
PnP PCI Ethernet card to work, I noticed this:
$ cat interrupts
0: 87414006 timer
1: 799266 keyboard
2: 0 cascade
3:6901359 + serial
4: 462426 +
Sorry for responding once again, but my previous posting was not exact.
The best explanation of the problem can be found in kernel source:
/usr/src/linux/arch/i386/kernel/irq.c
(Search for SIGFPE string)
Wojtek Zabolotny
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On Wed,
Howdy,
quick question:
my supplier offers me the following boards:
S3 TRIO PCI
S3 VIRGE PCI
Mystique
Millenium 2MB
Millenium 4MB
no further information is given. If I don't care about
graphic performance and possibilities what should be the
safest
Hello all!
My boss asked me to do an animated gif with morphing from one first
initial image to another.
What i what to know is if someone knows of a debian package that i can use
to satisfy my boss request!
Thanks and till I ear from you!
|\.../|
.0.0.
(= - =)
Nico De Ranter hat gesagt: // Nico De Ranter wrote:
Howdy,
quick question:
my supplier offers me the following boards:
S3 TRIO PCI
S3 VIRGE PCI
Mystique
Millenium 2MB
Millenium 4MB
no further information is given. If I don't care about
From: Frank Barknecht[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 1998 9:05 AM
To: Debian
Subject: Re: Graphics Board URGENT
Nico De Ranter hat gesagt: // Nico De Ranter wrote:
Howdy,
quick question:
my supplier offers me the following
I have made myself an executable octave script called octave_test.mex and
made it executable with chmodand the #!/interpreterpath mechanism. On
both Red Hat and Debian, typing ./octave_test.mex runs the script as
expected. I made also a c code wrapper for this program, so as to obey
the
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Paul McDermott wrote:
Hi Ana, yes there is an animated gif program called whirlgif.
hope this helps you.
Paul
Thanks, but what I ment was a thing that automaticly morphes the images,
but don´t worry, I´ve found xmorph...
|\.../|
.0.0.
(= - =)
Hi, this is a information i can't find in www.debian.org
When is the release of Debian 2.0 spected?
Chao.
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Telefono: 691.30.56
Licenciado en Matemáticas y Computación
Pontificia Universidad Católica de
IBM Thinkpads work best for me. Infact, I think they are probably the
most supported laptops for Linux...
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, iquest wrote:
Hi,
Anyone has any experience with Debian/Linux on laptop.
I'd like to know which laptop has the least problem
with running Debian/Linux and
Hello
Does somebody know how can I force some card to use a determinated IRQ?
My NE200 uses IRQ 5 and I want either IRQ 3 or 4. Since isn't a module, I
can't set up /etc/conf.modules. The NE2000 driver is already on the
kernel.
Thank you
Bruno
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, this is a information i can't find in www.debian.org
It really is a FAQ. We should probably add it to the site.
When is the release of Debian 2.0 spected?
The best answer I can give you is whenever we're done putting it
together ... it looks
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Bruno Simoes wrote:
Does somebody know how can I force some card to use a determinated IRQ?
My NE200 uses IRQ 5 and I want either IRQ 3 or 4. Since isn't a module, I
can't set up /etc/conf.modules. The NE2000 driver is already on the
You need to change the setting on the
Stephen P. Serafin wrote:
As you know, using the 'runsocks' script is supposed to enable
any application to run using socks. I never was able to get this running
with socks4 though. You can, however, use the socks5 package. The
socks5 libraries are quite able to interact with a socks4 server
Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have made myself an executable octave script called octave_test.mex and
made it executable with chmodand the #!/interpreterpath mechanism. On
both Red Hat and Debian, typing ./octave_test.mex runs the script as
expected. I made also a c code wrapper for
On 7 Jan, XRD Lab wrote:
How do I update the database ...
man -u
(mandb should anyway run weekly at 6 am), but your problem 1) is related
to your solution to 2).
2. I recently installed MuPAD. To access its manuals, I added the
following line to /etc/profile
I am having weird problems with serial devices on my system. The main
symptom is that root is unable to use the serial devices. User blp
(me) can use the serial devices--kermit, minicom, mserver all work
when run as blp--but root cannot. The one exception to this is pppd,
which only works when
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi there.
I've installed Netscape 4.04 by hand and i'm getting trouble running
helper applications. The command that Netscape issue is something like
sh ((foo /tmp/bar); rm /tmp/bar) and if i run that command directly from
the BASH command prompt it fails but if i
Nico De Ranter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Howdy,
quick question:
my supplier offers me the following boards:
S3 TRIO PCI
S3 VIRGE PCI
Mystique
Millenium 2MB
Millenium 4MB
no further information is given. If I don't care about
graphic
Any plans for Debian/Linux and this chip ?
Matthew
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Bruno Simoes wrote:
Hello
Does somebody know how can I force some card to use a determinated IRQ?
My NE200 uses IRQ 5 and I want either IRQ 3 or 4. Since isn't a module, I
can't set up /etc/conf.modules. The NE2000 driver is already on the
kernel.
Thank you
Bruno
Many of these cards
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote:
Many of these cards require a setup dos-program to change the IRQ.
I believe there's a group at NASA working on a parallel computing
project (which uses these cards) which has developed a linux program
which can do this though. That's all I know
Noel Yap [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not strictly Debian, but I *am* a Debian user so
I am trying to ACeDB
http://probe.nalusda.gov:8000/acedocs/acedbfaq.html. However, both
the text and graphical programs (tace and xace, respectively) produce a
segmentation fault when trying to
Please does anyone know of where I can access some speech/voice
recognition software for my Linux box?
Thanks
Jonathan
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I have Debian Linux 1.3, and I have set up ppp to the best of my
abilities, however when I logon Earthlink Networks accepts my username
and password and the debug says that the connection is beginning:
ppp0 --- ttyS1
However, I get the LCP problem where they are being sent but not
received. I
Since I'm on the 86open steering committee, Debian will probably conform.
86open progress is slow, there's nothing to conform with yet.
Bruce
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Hi Listers, Good afternoon!
Does anyone on this list know of a shopping cart program with cash
register and credit card action that runs well on linux?
Thanks in adviance.
Dr. Bubba
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Bill Vinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have Debian Linux 1.3, and I have set up ppp to the best of my
abilities, however when I logon Earthlink Networks accepts my username
and password and the debug says that the connection is beginning:
ppp0 --- ttyS1
However, I get the LCP problem
I have had no problems running linux (or anything else) on a AMD 5x86
133Mhz, mind you mine is a genuine AMD chip supported by my motherboard,
not one of these overpriced 486-pentium, overdrive thingys.
Take some advice, if you want a pentium, buy a new motherboard+chip, its
well worth the extra,
Found it thanks... seems that xf86config was commenting out my vidramsize
option in /etc/X11/XF86Config file even though I was selecting 2Mg RAM
during setup. Uncomment it and up she came.
Thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED] for your help.
Regards
Dave.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 07/01/98 16:42:27
On Mon, 05 Jan 1998, Daniel Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
I think I've heard odd things about networking on hamm not knowing
about localhost - tell me, is localhost mentioned in /etc/hosts? Can
you telnet to localhost? What does /etc/host.conf look like?
/etc/hosts:
127.0.0.1
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Will Lowe wrote:
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, this is a information i can't find in www.debian.org
It really is a FAQ. We should probably add it to the site.
When is the release of Debian 2.0 spected?
The best answer I can give you is whenever
On Tue, 9 Dec 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've run into a problem, I just installed a Kingston TurboChip (AMD 5x86
133Mhz) designed to run like a P-75 on a 486 motherboard, everything runs
fine until I reboot, when I do I get a page error and a prompt to login for
maintainance but
Hi Stephen!
I don't think, that Debian will be your linux distribution. Debian is very
easy to configure and maintain. I has a better package mechanism than
RedHat. And nearly every package runs without further configuration.
But of course, you can install your own software in /usr/local (which
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am intereste din a system where I can install thingsthen go
through the config files (not
some X interface) and read the docs...
and configure it
There is no X configuration utility in debian (yet), but all packages
configure during
s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why did this message come through into elm and then jed in three
horrendously long lines? Was it the sender or receiver? Anything I
can do about it?
The sender. You can just execute the command for rebreaking the lines (if
your mailreader has one).
Þann Wed, 07 Jan 1998, skrifaði Jim Foltz:Hello,
I am seeking assistance in configuring PPP 2.3.2 for demand
dialing. My setup works up until I add the demand option and the remote ip
to the options file. PPP will even initiate the link and will dial only
when there is data to be transmitted,
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 10:46:20PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When is the release of Debian 2.0 spected?
The best answer I can give you is whenever we're done putting it
together ... it looks like we'll be doing a code freeze within about
month, so sometime shortly thereafter, I'd
Hi,
I just tried out an extremely good looking desktop environment, the KDE, but
I've noticed some few rough parts, and would like to know if these were
common problems.
Whenever I start KFM the file manager, it seems to insist on having an
attached terminal.
When I start up the panel,
Hi,
How did you create the X server configuration file /etc/X11/XF86Config? The
error message indicates there is something wrong with the configuration file
and that is why the X server can not start.
I have had good success with the XF86Setup utility which comes with the
xserver-vga16
On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, David Stern wrote:
Hi,
I know this isn't a bash shell script news group, but the fact is I
can't find one. Since bash is the default linux shell, I was hoping
someone could answer a few pretty simple questions.
1.) How do I insert a newline character in a
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