The S3 Virge has been supported for a while under Xfree86 and is probably
pretty stable by now. Most any board should work in generic svga mode,
but you might as well get one which you can use to it's full potential.
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Nico De Ranter wrote:
Howdy,
quick question:
I've got a system that's been running for months (as an Internet
gateway/router). Everything's been great - until just recently.
All of a sudden, the system's been freezing on me - and I'm getting two
different sets of messages which I'm not sure are related. The most common
problem/error I'm
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 10:53:23PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The solution was simple! The processor fas (a small one for a 486) was way
to small. I've replaced it with a modern 586/Pentium fan, and now
everything works fine. (And the new fan produces less noise too)
Hmmm. My company's
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 02:46:06PM -0500, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
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
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 11:23:20AM -0800, Kevin Traas wrote:
I've got a system that's been running for months (as an Internet
gateway/router). Everything's been great - until just recently.
All of a sudden, the system's been freezing on me - and I'm getting two
different sets of messages
Try the URL www.scriptsearch.com :) they have some there done in perl,
C and i believe java.
On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Dr. Frank Palmer wrote:
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
Can you give ma a list of the software and patches on the Custum CD? I can't
afford to buy the whole package right now. (I would like a complete list of
the contents so
I can download the contents)
Thankyou-
Madeline
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When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP
etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots
of messages about not being able to find the old modules. Is there any
easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at
boot-time so it
On Wed, 07 Jan 1998 21:27:01 +1030, John Spence wrote:
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
[Summary - Netscape fails when launching helper apps under bash 2.0
because of a bug handling nested parens.]
Daniel wrote:
This is a known bash bug, and bash 2.01 fixes it. I have a bash 2.01
compiled for my bo system - if anyone wants it, it's available in:
Hamish Moffatt wrote:
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
#include unistd.h
main()
{
execl(/home/Gandalf/octave_test.mex,
(void *) 0);
}
Bad code. First argument should always be program name:
execl(/home/Gandalf/octave_test.mex,octave_test.mex,
(void *) 0);
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Guys I hope this isn't out of line but I am posting this little bit of
my log file in hopes someone can help. I asked about this earlier and
I figured this might make it easier to diagnose...
I've set up LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE up to 1000 and I still can't get logged
in.
Any help is appreciated, and
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Guys I hope this isn't out of line but I am posting this little bit of
my log file in hopes someone can help. I asked about this earlier and
I figured this might make it easier to diagnose...
I've set up LCP-MAX-CONFIGURE up to 1000 and I still can't
Howdy,
thanks to everybody who replied, I opted for a S3 TRIO since it's the cheapest
and graphics performance is not an issue at all. I didn't every board could
be run in generic svga mode however, that comes in very handy with my Diamond
FireGL at home :-)
Thanks,
Nico
The S3 Virge has
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 08:35:08AM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote:
thanks to everybody who replied, I opted for a S3 TRIO since it's the cheapest
and graphics performance is not an issue at all. I didn't every board could
be run in generic svga mode however, that comes in very handy with my
On Wed, Jan 07, 1998 at 03:37:28PM +0100, Nico De Ranter wrote:
Howdy,
quick question:
my supplier offers me the following boards:
S3 TRIO PCI
I use S3 Trio 64 with 2 MB memory on my home computer with XF86_S3 and have no
problems at all.
S3 VIRGE PCI
Probabaly it
When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP
etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots
of messages about not being able to find the old modules. Is there any
easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at
boot-time
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Alexey Vyskubov wrote:
[cut]
Mystique
Mystique 220 is not good for X :)
I'm interested to know why you say that? I have a Matrox Mystique 220
with 4megs of ram and I haven't yet had a problem with X.
The support for the Matrox cards is still in the early stages,
Hello. First of all, I would like to thank
all of the people that responed to my cfdisk help question about a week
ago. The responses were all helpful, and almost instant.
I have another
question. Please remember to respond directly to me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] . I
purchased Debian on a CD
Please does anyone know of where I can access some speech/voice
recognition software for my Linux box?
I'm not sure how high quality you're looking for, but there are a couple
on sunsite mirrors in the apps/sound/speech directory (eg,
ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/linux/sunsite/apps/sound/speech). I've
KDE Beta2, which I've compiled and been using on my bo systems has been
quite stable, with none of the problems you've mentioned (there was a
problem with the SuperUser filemanager option because kfm wasn't in the
PATH after the su, but a symlink to /usr/bin fixed that).
However, I did have a
Ana Silva hat gesagt: // Ana Silva wrote:
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,
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When I recompiled my kernel, I built alot of stuff into it (like PPP
etc), that used to be in modules before. Now when I startup, I get lots
of messages about not being able to find the old modules. Is there any
easy way to clean up / update the set of modules to be loaded at
boot-time
Frank Barknecht writes:
Ana Silva hat gesagt: // Ana Silva wrote:
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
Hi,
I'm a 15-year old unexperienced Debian user and I have a problem
installing it.
I've got an old 386 IBM PS/2 55 SX computer and when I start debian
installation everything works quite well. (there are some error
messages, but I don't know if they are relevant for my problem : 'PPA:
unable to
All the login prompt asks for is Username and Password, and then the
connection starts the terminal lists IP address and MRU? and then it's
supposed to start...
I tried it with minicom and everytime I guit without reset to type
pppd manually the modem would drop connection.
This may be solved
Hi!
I was running Redhat but I just bought Debian 1.3.1 Cd. I want
to be able to install it from the CD but I can't mount my CD. Its and
Creative labs 4x ide cdrom connected on my sound card. I know that if I
plug it on the same IDE as my HD it should work perfectly but my HD IDE
The cable should be cheap. Here's how I would do it with your current
setup (assuming sb is acting like your secondary ide slot):
1) altf2 to get a prompt
2) dmesg | more # find the cd
3) mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc /cdrom # From memory, possible typo
# the hdc is what you are looking for,
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 04:28:21PM +0100, Nils Sandmann wrote:
I've got an old 386 IBM PS/2 55 SX computer
It is highly probable that this computer uses IBM's proprietary MCA
(MicroChannel Architecture) bus architectre. Getting Linux to run on a
system with MCA is tricky. Unless I'm very
I ordered a computer with a Diamond Stealth PCI video card. When it
arrived I found that the card was the Diamond Stealth II S220 which,
of course, has absolutely nothing in common with previous Diamond
Stealth cards. (I hate it when hardware manufacturers use the same
name for fundamentally
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Nils Sandmann wrote:
unable to initialise controller at 0x308, error 1' and 'PS/2 ESDI:
Attention error. interrupt status: EF'). After that it is searching for
the harddisk and it is doing something with it (you can hear it) and it
then it displays the number of sectors
Hi.
It seems I am unable to launch X-CD-Roast: I always get the message
Can't initialize the Tix extension.
I have the xcdroast_0.96-1 and the tix41_4.1.0.6-1 packages installed.
It's the first time I use either one, so I don't know if my problem is
specific to those versions.
Does anyone have
IBM had an add a couple of weeks ago in the wall street journal which said It
understands unix. However, when I looked at the website, all I saw were
windows versions. I've been meaning to look into this, but perhaps it menat
that ls and cp are in the vocabulary . . .
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
The problem with using a Pentium fan is that they use a different
mechanism to attach to the CPU/motherboard.
It's easy when you use the kind of wire, that is used to bind flowers !!
(grin ;-)
Bye
Daniel Gross
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I am having a problem with 'adduser'. The behavior is as follows:
Upon entering
'adduser some_name'
entries are created in
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
a home directory is created
and the files from /etc/skel are copied to it.
But error messages are issued
Unknown error
Hi
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
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Nils Sandmann wrote:
I've got an old 386 IBM PS/2 55 SX computer and when I start debian
installation everything works quite well. (there are some error
messages, but I don't know if they are relevant for my problem : 'PPA:
unable to initialise controller at 0x308, error
JS I suppose I will have to load specific modules manually as I read
JS somewhere that kerneld will not auto-load masq modules (true ?). I
JS be giving it another bash later tonight as I've just d/loaded and
JS installed kernel-source-2.0.32-2.0.32-3.deb so that may make things
JS hopefully.
JS
My system is now unusable. Before the holidays, I performed the
steps in the libc5 to libc6 mini-HOWTO successfully. Today, I
decided to try to use dselect to upgrade to hamm. dselect dowloaded
60+MB from the mirror I pointed to (ftp.cdrom.com). I went through
a couple of passes of Install
Can you say boot disk?
For a boot disk I use the Debian install boot disk. From dos you can
edit the syslinux.cfg file to mount the correct disk as root. (and you
can disable the ramdisk if you need to.) Useing the boot disk will not
fix things but you should be able to log on and get a look
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Richard Sevenich wrote:
I am having a problem with 'adduser'. The behavior is as follows:
Upon entering
'adduser some_name'
entries are created in
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
a home directory is created
and the files from /etc/skel are copied to it.
But
Hi!
I ordered a computer with a Diamond Stealth PCI video card. When it
arrived I found that the card was the Diamond Stealth II S220 which,
of course, has absolutely nothing in common with previous Diamond
Stealth cards. (I hate it when hardware manufacturers use the same
name for
Dear folks,
I am quite a begginer of Linux but I enjoy it very much and I really
appreciate this list.
I have a small problem: after trying to install gopherd*deb,the installation
of which I unfortunately stoped presing Ctrl-C, I found that I cannot
longer read my man pages. Every time I
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Maria Lynn Jason Rightley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly
INIT: version 2.73 booting
INIT: Cannot execute /etc/init.d/boot
INIT: Entering runlevel: 2
Do the following:
- boot the system with -b added on the LILO command line
I have a Zip drive on lp0, and at boot time it is recognized (een if no
disk inserted), and then I cannot use lp0 to print.
The lsmod reports ls module loaded, no ppa module reported.
How can I disable ppa, and print?
Dr. Gregory Guthrie
I have XFree86 setup; but with some problems.
First,
the setup from dselect did not indicate that I neded any fonts to be
loaded, and this (of course) caused failures. THis would be a good
dependency to note!
Also;
the level of detail for Xsetup that requires refresh rates, dot-clock,
chip set
Catalin Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Dear folks,
I am quite a begginer of Linux but I enjoy it very much and I really
appreciate this list.
I have a small problem: after trying to install gopherd*deb,the installation
of which I unfortunately stoped presing Ctrl-C, I found that I
Hi Ian.
This is helpful, now I know where to put my script when I make one. I've
had another play with masq this morning and had great success. POP3,
SMTP, News, Browser, ICQ, ping, Freetel and Internet Phone (or Iphone
maybe, it's my wife's prog) all blazing away.
I haven't loaded a module
Hi,
If you have not already installed xserver-vga16 package, please do so. With
the xserver-vga16 package comes a utility named XF86Setup which will make
configuring X much more easier. You probably do not want to use the VGA16
server so answer 'no' when the installation script asks you if you
I am not receiving any incoming mail. I can send out, just not
receive. where should I look to start fixing this?
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Hi,
I have installed the latest fetchmail/smail/procmail from Hamm and I use
Pine as my mail reader/composer... When I start pine as a normal user I
get a little message at the bottom of the screen telling me that it
couldn't open the Mailbox normaly and that it is now READONLY so that I
can't
I cannot telnet or ftp into my Debian box. When attempted, it says
something like connection refused from server.
Again, where should I start to look to try and resolve this problem?
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Hi!
Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package,
or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ...
Regards,
Michael Legart
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Robert Eckard wrote:
I am not receiving any incoming mail. I can send out, just not
receive. where should I look to start fixing this?
Send yourself mail from another system, wait for it to bounce back, and
examine the headers to see where it bounced and what sort of
I currently have my floppy set up so that users can mount ms floppies with the
line
/dev/fd0/floppy msdos user,rw 0 0
in /etc/fstab
I tried changing msdos to auto, but no dice. Is there a change so that it
can automount both msdos and ext2 disks?
rick, who
Has anyone ever gotten the TCL program treelink to run on their Debian
system? I'm having problems.
(Treelink creates PostScript-output hypergraphs of Web sites:
http://aorta.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de/~gaier/treelink/. It requires
Tcl7.x/TclX7.x/Tk3.x.)
I downloaded the source and tried it on
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 03:17:54PM -0500, Robert Eckard wrote:
I cannot telnet or ftp into my Debian box. When attempted, it says
something like connection refused from server.
Again, where should I start to look to try and resolve this problem?
What does your ifconfig and route command say?
Thank you very much for the reply on the segmentation fault question.
I've got it incredibly quickly.
I have another one: How can I install and setup Magicfilter under debian?
I have a HPLJ4L printer which worked fine under Slackware having the
Magicfilter installed by hand. Which package should
On Thu, Jan 08, 1998 at 09:20:32PM +0100, Michael Legart wrote:
Hi!
Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package,
or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ...
http://www.debian.org/devel/libc5-libc6-Mini-HOWTO.html
Regards
Joey
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Michael Legart wrote:
Hi!
Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package,
or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ...
Go read http://www.gate.net/~storm/FAQ/
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Hi,
Can anyone tell me whether the Adaptec AHA-2910 is supported by the
aic7xxx driver. Adaptec's product literature states that the 2910 has
the same architecture (minus BIOS) as the AHA-2940 and is supported by
the same 7800 Family Manager Set software drivers for Win95/NT, etc.
Thanks,
Dear Fellow Debian Users:
(let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think
it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't
solve).
I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my
work computer. My home computer runs man just fine, but on my
I want to thank everyone who responded to my questions both on the list
and in e-mail.
After I recived a response or two, I decided to give it a try.
I dropped into messydos and FDISK /MBR and then fdisked my redhat system
to a nice clean one (without ther Dynamic Disk Overlay that wouldn't
boot
Dear Fellow Debian Users:
(let me know if I've posted this to the wrong place; I don't think
it's a Debian bug per-se, but a local installation problem I can't
solve).
I'm running Debian-1.3 on two machines, my home computer and my
work computer. My home computer runs man just fine,
Michael Legart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hi!
Just wondering how to uprade to libc6? Do I just install the libc6 package,
or do I have to reinstall my hole system? ...
Well, something in between, installing a couple of other packages in
addition libc6 is highly recommendable/necessary.
I wanted to install Win95 on the slave disk on my IDE system
(/dev/hdb). To make sure, that Linux (on /dev/hda) is not damaged, I did the
following
1. Remove hda
2. Configure hdb as master
3. Install Win95
4. Insert hda again
5. Configured win95 disk as hdb
6. Boot the (linux) system
7. Wrote a
What does your ifconfig and route command say? Are you able to
ping your machine on that ip number? Is your inetd running?
My inetd is not running, I am using xinetd and isn't running either.
How do I get it started and get it to start with each fresh boot?
What are 'ifconfig' and 'route'
Are you using bash as your shell and have 'set -a' in /etc/profile or in any
of your bash startup files? If so, try removing 'set -a' or running man under
some other shell.
Bash hanging with man when 'set -a' was in use was reported as bug #8390
during last summer.
// Heikki
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On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Robert Joseph Eckard wrote:
What are 'ifconfig' and 'route' commands?
route shows all the routes your system will use to route packets, and
ifconfig shows the communications devices (ethernet cards, ppp links,
etc.) that the system is currently recognizing.
They're in
$ /sbin/ifconfig
loLink encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3584 Metric:1
RX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
eth0
Hi guys,
I have expected just a problem,
I want to conect on the internet with my Debian.
I have configured the file /etc/ppp.chatscript, so that i have
writing my provider's phone number, my login and pass
But when i lauch ppp i don't know what i shall do.
Please help me so that i can reach
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Catalin Popescu wrote:
I have another one: How can I install and setup Magicfilter under debian?
I have a HPLJ4L printer which worked fine under Slackware having the
Magicfilter installed by hand. Which package should I install now (I did
not find one called Magicfilter,
Also modify /etc/resolv.conf (ask your isp for nameserver ip address) so
dns works. Then use pon to start a connection, and poff to bring it down.
Test with ping www.debian.org.
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Pierre Dupuis wrote:
Hi guys,
I have expected just a problem,
I want to conect on the
Hello all
I am still having the same problem with perl...
Perl 5.003 works fine, then I install perl-base 5.004.04-3 and perl
5.004.04-3, and suddenly some perl programs work, other core dumps,
such as adduser, and dpkg-ftp
I'd really like to get this problem sorted... I really don't quite
Hi all
I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu.
I am using the dosemu package from hamm. I have an msdos partition
mounted on /dos. In dosemu I type
lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos
And then get error 3c. And I can't seem to find the meaning of the
errors anywhere in the docs.
If on the other
Now, if I go to dual modems (or even three), is the box going to be
able
to keep up when servicing three 33K modems and doing DNS lookups and
running apache, squid, etc all at the same time?
Oh yeah, it will certianly keep up. A local ISP used to run their
whole ISP on a 486dx4/100, with 32mb,
I received this message when I tried to e-mail my computer from acme:
- The following addresses had transient non-fatal errors -
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- Transcript of session follows -
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Deferred: Connection refused by
r40h17.res.gatech.edu.
When I installed
Robert Joseph Eckard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
My inetd is not running, I am using xinetd and isn't running either.
How do I get it started and get it to start with each fresh boot?
It should be automaticly. Check /etc/init.d/xinetd
At the top, there are two line like:
test -f
Stephen Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
btw...
does debian have a logo?
(ive always liked RedHat's logo :) )
seeing as I work at the largest WinNT domain in the counbtryid like
to put a BIG logo
on my cubicle :)
There is a fairly new official debian logo, but not the whole debian
At 07:34 PM 1/5/98 -0500, you wrote:
dave mallery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
could someone explain where i can find an explanation for the fields
in /etc/ppp.options_out?
Look at what the command pon does:
cush:~$ which pon
/usr/bin/pon
cush:~$ cat /usr/bin/pon
#!/bin/sh
if [ -r
On Thu, 8 Jan 1998, Neilen Marais wrote:
Hi all
I can't seem to get lredir to work in dosemu.
I am using the dosemu package from hamm. I have an msdos partition
mounted on /dos. In dosemu I type
lredir d: LINUX\FS/dos
And then get error 3c. And I can't seem to find the meaning of
I use smail/pine for reading mail. When I send out a
message it can take a couple of minutes before pine
lets me do more reading. Is this normal, or do I have
something misconfigured? I chose option 1 on the smail
config, but do not have a smart host.
Mark
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This is because the DNS reverse mapping maps your IP (128.61.40.17)
to r40h17.res.gatech.edu rather than greyghost.gt.ed.net. Note the
following:
chilin$ dig 17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa any
; DiG 2.2 17.40.61.128.in-addr.arpa any
;; res options: init recurs defnam dnsrch
;; got answer:
;;
Hello PC users!
What about putting a penguin sticker on top of those Window 95 keys on all
new keyboards ?
They could come handy as new modifiers, for example to switch virtual consoles,
leaving Alt free and providing a good alternative for Ctrl-alt(gr)-Fn in X and
DosEmu; more, one could use
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