I've seen reports on the aic7xxx and linux-kernel mailing lists about
device-negotiation error under the more recent versions of the driver.
Many of them sounded quite similar to what you've described. You might
try creating a custom install-disk, using an older version of the driver...
you can fi
Hi,
I've being trying to get a Win95 machine to dialin with a IPX connecting,
but adding the settings for IPX as per the man page, causes pppd to fail,
saying that the ipx settings are invalid.
I take it this means the pppd isn't compiled with IPX support, as ipx is
enables in the kernel.
Why no
I'm trying to use YARD to create a boot/root floppy pair for
emergencies. The trouble is that I can't seem to get them to work and
I believe I'm missing something. The boot floppy works fine and
prompts me to insert the root floppy. That goes fine, i.e., it gets to
the login prompt. But at that po
On Fri, 03 Jul, 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
> Hi there. After a wonderful discussion in debian-devel :) I decided to
> try out gnome. However I can't seam to find the gmc package in the
> incoming or slink directory?
>
> Does the package exist get? And if so where
no, it does not, Jim Pick
I thought I would follow up my own note so that someone else might
benefit from the answer I found. (See below for question)
I found out that I had two partitions on my DOS harddisk. The first
partition amounted to about 2 megs and was a non-DOS partition. I have
no idea whatsoever how it got th
I've been having problems when (re)installing the Debian distribution using
the 2.0.8_1998-06-23 *14* installation disk images.
On two different systems, with two different Adaptec controllers (AHA-2940AU
and AHA-7880), I have had major problems getting the rescue disk to recognize
my second scsi
Hi People,
I have a Digicard network card in my Linux box.
The Digicard network was designed for schools, and has a main server
box, and Macs, Apple IIs and PCs can all connect to it. It is very like
AppleTalk (you can use the same connectors from the cable to the Mac.)
The card in my Linux box u
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:23:27PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I wouldn't worry too much about VGA-related stuff not working in
> 2.1.107 and 2.1.108. The VGA Console is completely broken in these two
> kernels. Shift-PgUp/PgDn does not work and God knows what else is
> broken. As far as I kn
>> "B" == Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
B> The Suse handbook descibes nicely how to set up Linux to appear in the
B> NT boot loader. That way one has only one prompt.
They have a nice supportdatabase. The NT-Loader entry is
http://www.suse.de/support-db/sdb_e/nt.html
Ciao,
Ma
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 09:03:21AM -0300, Trevor Barrie wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
>
>> I use slrn --spool. I can't remember the details, but I know at first I
>> had a lot of trouble to get it to work. If I remember correctly, I, as
>> root, deleted the /var/news/ director
>> "S" == Shaul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
S> I have the following line in /etc/inittab:
S> S1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1
S> How can I stop it whenever I need to, do something (like changing some
S> parameter) and restart it again ?
Change the config, then kill the mgetty prozess. init wi
> I downloaded and installed Star Office 4.0. I haven't had much opportunity
> to
> study it, but I did find out that it will not load PowerPoint (*.ppt) files.
> I also checked on word processor files. WinWord 6.0 and 95 are supported,
> though the files should not have been saved with the
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I have the following line in /etc/inittab:
S1:23:respawn:/sbin/mgetty ttyS1
How can I stop it whenever I need to, do something (like changing some
parameter) and restart it again ?
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Brederlow wrote:
>
> Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2
> > separate partitions. There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the
> > partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > seems we have a problem here ... it relieves me from feeling totally
> > dumb. Anyone could suggest the SAFE way of setting things up for the
> > COLOUR Netscape ??? Thanks.
>
> >> Now I have
> >> running Netscape but it is black and white, and I don't know what to
Dennis Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What I need to do is change one of my Debian (version 1.3) partitions into 2
> separate partitions. There is presently 161 MB of files in hda6 (the
> partition I want to subdivide) and on my Windows half of the computer in
> Drive D: (hda5) I have 190MB
Dennis Dai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My experience is: install NT first, then install Linux, run LILO to
> modify MBR (add a dos option as usual). After reboot, I got LILO prompt
> first. If I select dos, NT boot loader came up, there you can select NT
> or win95. This is quite different from
Got my PPP connection up and running with a USR 56k modem. The modem WILL
connect through "regular" dialup (33.6). Problem is that it doesn't
transmit properly when connected with the provider's X2 modem. It DOES work
under OS/2. Init string's same. Login procedure is simple (no PAP or CHAP,
ju
I had a similar problem trying to install Debian 2.0 on my machine at
work. Many Maxtor hard drives come with their own BIOS program that
takes control of the computer away from the ROM BIOS. This is done
mainly to allow older BIOS's to see the full capacity of larger hard
drives, but it may
Evan Van Dyke wrote:
>
> After installing all of the X11 packages(through dselect) on
> Debian 2.0, I've run into problems. when I try to run XF86Setup,
> It says that it can't find /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/6x13.pc*
> So I ran xf86config... then when I ran startx, it can't find
> /usr/X11R6
Howdy,
I just downloaded the floppy version of Debian from
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/stable/disks-i386/current/ and I am
attempting a default install on a new machine.
My hardware configuration:
PCI MB 486-dx2/80 with 32 megs of RAM.
Maxtor 7540AV Cylinders:1046 Heads:16 Sectors:63 Size:515
PC
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Johann Spies wrote:
> I use slrn --spool. I can't remember the details, but I know at first I
> had a lot of trouble to get it to work. If I remember correctly, I, as
> root, deleted the /var/news/ directory because of trouble getting the
> correct permissions. Thereafter th
On Fri, 3 Jul 1998, Randy Edwards wrote:
> I recently switched ISPs to one that uses NT and its chap. Using the
> pppconfig package I have my system working so that it works fine with
> "pon".
I think you're using hamm.
if you look in /etc/ppp/peers you'll find the ppp-options generated by
pppc
> I remember some PCI errors showing up during boot with older kernels
> that were eliminated in later kernel versions(2.0.32+ ?), but, of
> course, I can't tell whether this applies to your situation.
yep. upgrading removed (PCI-related) warnings during boot and now
XF86Config, e.g., recog
> I've got hamm installed, and can use 'pon' to start ppp to hook up to
> the net okay as root, but for the regular user account I made during
> install I can not because I get 'permission denied' errors. I know
> this has to do with permissions, so what do I change and how? I've
> looked for a 'pe
*-Christopher Barry ( 4 Jul)
| Type 'dselect' at the prompt.
|
| Jonathan Bruce wrote:
|
| > How do I run deselect after installing Linux?
|
|
Also, you might want to read the Dselect Beginners guide:
ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/current/dselect.beginner.8.html
or
f
On Fri, 03 Jul 1998, Kevin Atkinson wrote:
>I just ran apt-get to upgrade fully upgrade to hamm and everthing worked
>fine except
>that I got this on xcontrib:
>
>Setting up xcontrib (3.3.1-2) ...
>chown: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload: No such file or directory
>dpkg: error processing xcontrib (--install):
Hi,
I wouldn't worry too much about VGA-related stuff not working in
2.1.107 and 2.1.108. The VGA Console is completely broken in these two
kernels. Shift-PgUp/PgDn does not work and God knows what else is
broken. As far as I know a fix has not been provided yet, not even in
the kernel mailing lis
What command did you use with loadlin? It should be
loadlin linux root=/dev/ram initrd=root.bin
Try this and make sure that you get it right.
The FATAL ERROR message is most likely caused by a bad floppy. Linux is
_very_ picky about floppies and you might need to make 5 or 6 before you
ge
Hi, All
i've recompiled and put new kernel (2.0.34) on my computer,
running Hamm 2.0 Beta. Now looks like i have network problem,
namely, from syslog
Jul 4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: smtp/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul 4 18:57:08 stas inetd[176]: auth/tcp: bind: Permission denied
Jul 4 18:57
Hi,
Sometime ago somebody gave me some tips about how to do keybindings in
emacs. They were for latex. Here they are (from my .emacs):
(defvar TeX-command-list
(list
(list "LaTeX" "latex %t"
'TeX-run-LaTeX nil t)
(list "View" "xdvi %d"
'TeX-run-command nil t)
Was wondering if there was still the mlddcs package around, and if there is
a good howto somewhere on setting up pon with mldcc. Thanks
meridian
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Hi,
I have been using 116x34x9 for many moons now, but after changing from
2.1.106 to 2.1.108 my screen is steps and stairs. It all comes good if I
revert to 80x25.
Using hamm and svgatextmode_1.8-5.2.deb.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to get this fixed?
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
>> "e" == ej <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
e> for the permissions, type 'man chmod' to read all about them.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/DOS-Win-to-Linux-HOWTO.html
http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/LDP/gs/node5.html#SECTION00510
have also some introducery words about permissions.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I use the cfortran header file from this location
> ftp://zebra.desy.de/cfortan
> to build prototypes for BLAS and Lapack functions.
I've finally understood how to make the headers. Now I can make them by
myself.
> I> A more general question: is there a way t
Type 'dselect' at the prompt.
Jonathan Bruce wrote:
> How do I run deselect after installing Linux?
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>> "GWK" == G W Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
GWK> wenn ich "gimp" aufrufe, erhalte ich: "can't load library 'libXm.so.2'.
libXm.so.2 ist glaube ich die Motif Library. Du hast wohl noch ein gimp,
das dynamisch gegen Motif gelinkt wurde. Entweder installierst du
gimp-smotif (die statisch gel
>> "KYL" == K Y Lo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
KYL> I had installed Netscape 4.05 and setting up things but I cant running
KYL> netscape to excute itself. it looks nothing
KYL> How do user run the netscape to execute?
Install netscape using the debian installer (netscape4.deb), then just
type
>> "RA" == Robert Alexander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
RA> One thing that works flawlessly is installing the source package and
RA> then using the make-kpkg command from the kernel-package package.
RA> The same source tree used with the usual make menuconfig;make dep;make
RA> all;make install d
How do I run deselect after installing
Linux?
All you should have to do is add yourself to group dip. Login as root (or
su) and use 'usermod -G dip username'. That should do it, you can check
what groups you are in by logging in as yourself and typing 'groups'. As
for the permissions, type 'man chmod' to read all about them.
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>
> Try the netatalk package instead of CAP. I've been using it for over a
> month now and haven't had any problems. You will need to enable support
> Appletalk DDP in the kernel or as a module.
>
> -Ossama
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On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 12:00:01AM -0400, Ossama Othman wrote:
> Try the netatalk package instead of CAP. I've been using it for over a
> month now and haven't had any problems. You will need to enable support
> Appletalk DDP in the kernel or as a module.
I've had a few problems. Once it appeare
FWIW The development netscape Ed suggested worked flawlessly colorful
for me.
Christopher Barry wrote:
>
> I tried this, because when I did an archives search I found a small thread
> that talked
> about this bug. Switching to 16 or 32 did not work for me. Is there *anyone*
> that this
> actual
anyone knows how to add new fonts to X11 (in existing directories)
How to change fonts and default fonts
and how to use true type fonts / xfstt?
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I wan;t to use xemacs in order to write in hebrew, which requires to
write from right to left, alight the text to the right and also change
the font to an hebrew one.
Is there a way to do this, and how is it done.
If the optin doesn't exist now and there is a way to write it then if
anyone can po
I tried this, because when I did an archives search I found a small thread that
talked
about this bug. Switching to 16 or 32 did not work for me. Is there *anyone*
that this
actually worked for, specifically jumping from 24 to 32, because don't 24 and
32 both
support the same number of colors (2
Hi,
Try the netatalk package instead of CAP. I've been using it for over a
month now and haven't had any problems. You will need to enable support
Appletalk DDP in the kernel or as a module.
-Ossama
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> I am having trouble setting up this modem.
> I tried the normal settings on this modem, but they won't work.
> If i'm reading the output from plog correct then it gets stuck
> waiting for the login name.
> It does everything before that very slowly but i got it to dial.
> then i get a first line
I just ran apt-get to upgrade fully upgrade to hamm and everthing worked
fine except
that I got this on xcontrib:
Setting up xcontrib (3.3.1-2) ...
chown: /usr/X11R6/bin/xload: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing xcontrib (--install):
subprocess post-installation script returned erro
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CAP = Columbia Appletalk Package
Hi,
I was wondering if anyone out there has or is using cap for appletalk on
debian linux. I am trying to set it up, but not having any luck. What
would be really good is if someone had a debian package for CAP, or
configura
On Fri, Jul 03, 1998 at 12:56:04PM -0400, Shaleh wrote:
> HAHAHAHAHA
>
> Ok, now that that is said. slashdot.org's founder Rob Malda is in the
> process of moving. And as we all know once you do not have time to work
> on something -- it breaks. the DNS server has had problems the last few
> da
On Fri, 03 Jul 1998, Dennis Dixon wrote:
>I did in fact forget to put a destination in my cp command.
>
>After deleting the '/root/core' file, freeing up some space, I tried to:
> 'cp -a /usr/* /mnt/linuxfiles/'
>
>But I got a whole bunch of "operation not permitted" errors, so I aborted
Hi there. After a wonderful discussion in debian-devel :) I decided to
try out gnome. However I can't seam to find the gmc package in the
incoming or slink directory?
Does the package exist get? And if so where
Thanks,
Kevin
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At 05:26 PM 7/3/98 -0700, you wrote:
>I did in fact forget to put a destination in my cp command.
>
>After deleting the '/root/core' file, freeing up some space, I tried to:
> 'cp -a /usr/* /mnt/linuxfiles/'
>
>But I got a whole bunch of "operation not permitted" errors, so I aborted
>the
I did in fact forget to put a destination in my cp command.
After deleting the '/root/core' file, freeing up some space, I tried to:
'cp -a /usr/* /mnt/linuxfiles/'
But I got a whole bunch of "operation not permitted" errors, so I aborted
the process. Apparently, the dos side won't sav
Seems to me that locking it down will be the big problem because the first
requirement of security is to prevent access to the box. You might be
better off using the boxes as X-Window terminals with a server in the back
room. There was discussion on this recently about making X-Window
terminals.
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