Error al arrancar las Xwindow

1998-08-09 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola . ¿Me podeis decir alguien porque me aparece este error al arrancar Xwindow ? (**) S3V: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565 (--) S3V: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 (--) S3V: Local bus LAW is 0xF80x (--) S3V: Using a banksize of 4096k, line width of 1024 The XKEYBOARD keymap

Re: Error al arrancar las Xwindow

1998-08-09 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Juan Carlos Muro wrote: Hola . ¿Me podeis decir alguien porque me aparece este error al arrancar Xwindow ? (**) S3V: Using 16 bpp. Color weight: 565 (--) S3V: Virtual resolution set to 1024x768 (--) S3V: Local bus LAW is 0xF80x (--) S3V: Using a banksize of 4096k, line width of 1024

How to get XDM up?

1998-08-09 Thread Robert Ramiega
HI! I have just about one problem with Debian 2.0 While I was installing this thing i answered no when dselect asked if i want to use xdm. Now i would like to use xdm but i was unable to do so. Can anyone help me ? TIA -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL PROTECTED]IRC: _Jedi_ | Don't

Re: ISDN script problem !

1998-08-09 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Martin Bialasinski wrote: I would consider to give the new config a try. It is really nice. Start isdnconfig as root. I didn't understood, yet, isdnconfig ! :(( What should I write !? Use the options user your-username remotename provider Then in /etc/ppp/pap-secrets, add a line

Re: More than one window manager?

1998-08-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, David Fletcher wrote: Michael Beattie wrote: On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, David Fletcher wrote: Is there any way to set up default window managers on a user by user basis? I would like to use a different window manager than I've trained my wife on, but she gets

[no subject]

1998-08-09 Thread Mark Lloyd
DO YOU HAVE A WEB PAGE?? IS IT A GHOST TOWN WITH NO TRAFFIC ?? FED UP WITH OFFERS OF FREE PUBLICITY THAT ONLY MEAN 1/2 WHAT THEY SAY ?? IF THE ANSWER IS YES TO ANY OF THE ABOVE THEN READ ON !! This is a FREE offer from a frustrated webmaster who spent weeks preparing manual inserts

Re: Colors

1998-08-09 Thread Christopher Barry
Kinda a late reply, but I got around to checking out that bash themes page today. Did you actually get them to look right in the console? I got them to look right in xterm's and rxvt's by loading non-default fonts but are these usable for the basic console? Martin Bialasinski wrote: LA ==

kde installation

1998-08-09 Thread Christoph Stein
dear Debians, I tried to install the KDE Desktop in my Linux Debian System and got the message, that a libery is missing: Its called: libgif2. Where can I find this ? Christoph Stein

Re: kde installation

1998-08-09 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 02:19:32AM +0200, Christoph Stein wrote: dear Debians, I tried to install the KDE Desktop in my Linux Debian System and got the message, that a libery is missing: Its called: libgif2. Where can I find this ? Go to www.debian.org and than to packages section. There

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread Brian May
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Matthew Myers wrote: I am having trouble with my backspace key in X. It acts as the delete key rather than the backspace, deleting characters after the cursor rather than backspacing over them. Hi, edit /etc/X11/Xmodmap and put

Re: fvwm95 after hamm upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, I upgraded my bo system to hamm last night. Everything went pretty well, though I did have the run the install portion of dselect several times for it to get through without errors... Well, I'm impressed - I made a slight error in

Re: Sound (with E)................

1998-08-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
phillip Neumann hat gesagt: // phillip Neumann wrote: I have my soundcard configured as a module. When i start X, with E, all the sound go good. If i want to here the time, i put saytime in a term and linux said: opening /dev/audio: Device or resource busy even if i stop using E with

Re: Sound (with E)................

1998-08-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 02:53:09PM -0700, phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, I have my soundcard configured as a module. When i start X, with E, all the sound go good. If i want to here the time, i put saytime in a term and linux said: opening /dev/audio: Device or resource busy This is

Re: How to connect?; install packages?

1998-08-09 Thread Akop Pogosian
Derek Saw wrote: I've finished installed the core component of Debian. I've downloaded many packages from Internet using Win95 and save it all the files in the directory D:\DEBIAN (no subdirectories) By using DSELECT, how can I set the ACCESS to use all the files in that directories

Adaptec 2940UW failure with current rescue disks; Buslogic BT-958 succeeds.

1998-08-09 Thread Jameson Burt
Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years. Now, none of the rescue disks in .../dists/hamm/disks-i386 work with my Adaptec 2940UW. I have tried all four .../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/resc1440* and I have tried

XKB revisited with Hamm

1998-08-09 Thread BG Lim
Just recently I wrote to the lists about my problems with the XKB extension. I got some help but I didn't know how to solve the problem. So, I decided to upgrade to Hamm release version. Now XKB bindings seem to work alright, but I get an error message right after the xserver output. Its goes

Re: xfstt not working

1998-08-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 02:41:51PM -0400, Keith Vance wrote: Prior to installing Debian 2.0 my xfstt font server worked fine. I understand that I need to load xfstt with port 7101, but it still doesn't work. hmmm what version of xfstt are you installing? did you get i tfrom Debian 2.0 (hamm)

Re: annoying Win95 workaround

1998-08-09 Thread Charles Perry
I need to run my Win95 programs for work related reasons...not because I like microsoft. With that said, I install Debian a few months ago and loved it. That is until it kept causing Win 95 to lose partitions. I would set up everything I needed in Win 95 (2 partitions so that the linux kernel can

kernel image size...

1998-08-09 Thread Alan Su
just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in /usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same size image? i'm currently burning in a computer by sticking it in such a loop, and i'm saving the images, just to

XBanner trouble

1998-08-09 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I wrote about this to the xbanner maintainer a while back, but I either didn't get an answer, or it was a I don't know, don't remember: I'm having trouble with xbanner 1.31-13 after I upgraded the rest of my system to hamm. I already had libc6 by then, and a devel-environment for libc6,

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread jdassen
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:40:22PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: [backspace problem in X] Here is my setup: Debian 1.3.1 Please consider upgrading to Debian 2.0 . In 2.0, consistent handling of backspace and delete under X has been implemented. HTH, Ray -- PATRIOTISM A great British writer

Re: gcc and egcs

1998-08-09 Thread jdassen
On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 05:58:27PM -0230, Greg Starkes wrote: On Sat, 8 Aug 1998, Liran Zvibel wrote: The problem is that gcc is an ANSI C compiler, and you wanted to compile a C++ program. I think that If you have just changed gcc to g++ ( the GNU C++ compiler) everything would have

RE: Changing number of colors of XServer

1998-08-09 Thread Ted Harding
On 08-Aug-98 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: My XServer is currently configured to sue 256 colors. (8 bits). I have noticed that when I start netscape I get messages telling me it can't allocate a larger color map. I figured that if I increased the number of colors, this problem would go away.

Re: X menus : cannot find first entry

1998-08-09 Thread Robert J. Alexander
You assumed just right. Worked wonderfully ... thank you. Thank you also to Ed Cogburn, but no the problem wasn't my .xsession [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm assuming fvwm95 uses the same system as fvmw2: /etc/X11/fvwm95/main-menu-pre.hook -- --

Re: 16bpp XFree86 on IBM Thinkpad 760XL

1998-08-09 Thread Robert J. Alexander
John Kloss wrote: I'm sending you my XF86Config file. I have the same computer running at 16bpp. I used the DefaultColorDisplay 16 flag in the config file to set things at 16bpp. Thank you very much John. Meanwhile I had managed to tweak a parallel XF86Config from info I got within IBM. If

Iomega DittoMax (7 GB)

1998-08-09 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Has anybody tried the Iomega DittoMax (7 GB compressed) under Debian 2.0 ? thanks in advance Rene Mayrhofer

Re: Iomega DittoMax (7 GB)

1998-08-09 Thread David Z. Maze
Rene Mayrhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RM Has anybody tried the Iomega DittoMax (7 GB compressed) under RM Debian 2.0 ? It works (more or less) with the current betas of the ftape drivers. See http://www-math.math.rwth-aachen.de/~LBFM/claus/ftape/, and look under development. (To be fair,

Re: kernel image size...

1998-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 01:00:46AM -0700, Alan Su wrote: just out of curiousity, if i do 'make clean ; make zImage' in /usr/src/linux repeatedly and compare the size of /usr/src/linux/arch/i386/boot/zImage, should i expect to get the same size image? i'm currently burning in a computer by

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 11:48:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:40:22PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: [backspace problem in X] Here is my setup: Debian 1.3.1 Please consider upgrading to Debian 2.0 . In 2.0, consistent handling of backspace and delete under

Re: How to get XDM up?

1998-08-09 Thread Ed Cogburn
Robert Ramiega wrote: HI! I have just about one problem with Debian 2.0 While I was installing this thing i answered no when dselect asked if i want to use xdm. Now i would like to use xdm but i was unable to do so. Can anyone help me ? TIA -- Robert Ramiega | [EMAIL

Has Anyone used Axene office suite?

1998-08-09 Thread Allan Bart
Hello, I have found a new unix office suite from a company called AXENE. I think they are a French Co,,however, they do have a representative in Jersey city NJ in the USA. I have also checked out the GIMP and it looks like it might be competitive with Corel Draw 7 or Micrografx Graphics Suite

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread jdassen
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 10:19:22PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: I just installed Debian 2.0 on my Toshiba notebook on Friday, and backspace doesn't work in xterm! Perhaps it is just the keyboard on the thing [I chose standard 102 key keyboard in the setup]; I have to use C-h though.

WD7193, WD7197, WD7296 Linux driver

1998-08-09 Thread Andreas Dreyer
Hi! I need a driver for the Western Digital SCSI Controller WD7193 (WD7197,WD7296 schould work, too). The WD7000 does not work (can't mount root fs) and without such a driver I will never be able to use Linux because my harddrives and cdroms are connectet to the WD7193 controller. Please

Re: No Backspace in X

1998-08-09 Thread stick
Hamish Moffatt said On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 11:48:28AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 10:40:22PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: [backspace problem in X] Here is my setup: Debian 1.3.1 Please consider upgrading to Debian 2.0 . In 2.0, consistent handling of

Re: xfstt not working

1998-08-09 Thread Keith Vance
Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: On Sat, Aug 08, 1998 at 02:41:51PM -0400, Keith Vance wrote: Prior to installing Debian 2.0 my xfstt font server worked fine. I understand that I need to load xfstt with port 7101, but it still doesn't work. hmmm what version of xfstt are you installing? did

help

1998-08-09 Thread Dave Fleming

Starting Over

1998-08-09 Thread Marcus Johnson
For those of you interested in studying how the installation process can be improved to help newbies, I offer myself as a case study weak grin. Now I'm stuck and I need your help I've fallen and I can't get up. On this,( my first ever installation of Linux) I installed stable Hamm using LSL's

Re: help

1998-08-09 Thread Liran Zvibel
You should e-mail this mesage to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Assuming you want the answer from the majordom service) Liran. --- http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~liranz/ On Sun, 9 Aug 1998, Dave Fleming wrote: -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: ISDN script problem !

1998-08-09 Thread Martin Bialasinski
NC == Nuno Carvalho [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: NC I didn't understood, yet, isdnconfig ! :(( What should I write !? isdnconfig. At the prompt. As root. Some things are really mysterious, aren't they ;-) NC ipppd: peer authentication required but no authenthication file accessible NC

Re: Adaptec 2940UW failure with current rescue disks; Buslogic BT-958 succeeds.

1998-08-09 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Jameson Burt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 | years. [snip] | I happen to still have a bo rescue disk from 11/17/97: it works with | my Adaptec 2940UW. | | I got my Adaptec 2940UW two years ago with a new Dell computer. A | sticker

Re: What dist is vararg.h in?

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thats sys/varargs.h Would varargs.h move between the two version of bo to hamm? This is source code to a mud that compiled fine under bo but now its having fits under hamm. I was expecting that all I would have to do is re-compile it without modifications. Thanks for the info. Doug Gary L.

Adaptec 2940UW failure with current rescue disks; Buslogic BT958 succeeds

1998-08-09 Thread Jameson Burt
Debian rescue disks have supported my Adaptec 2940UW disk for 1 1/2 years. Now, none of the rescue disks in .../dists/hamm/disks-i386 work with my Adaptec 2940UW. I have tried all four .../dists/hamm/disks-i386/2.0.10_1998-07-21/resc1440* and I have tried

Re: ISDN script problem !

1998-08-09 Thread Thomas Adams
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 12:23:44AM +, Nuno Carvalho wrote: I would consider to give the new config a try. It is really nice. Start isdnconfig as root. I didn't understood, yet, isdnconfig ! :(( What should I write !? Just enter the command isdnconfig. It will ask you some questions and

Re: patch 2.5-2 problem

1998-08-09 Thread Bjoern Fischer
On Fri, Aug 07, 1998 at 07:03:08AM -0600, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: Bjoern Fischer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | while setting up a small network from scratch with hamm, I found that | /usr/bin/patch ( patch_2.5-2 ) fails to locate files in directories | deeper than one (eg. ***

Re: Official Debian 2.0 from LSL?

1998-08-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Fri, 7 Aug 1998, Johann Spies wrote: I have ordered the Official Debian 2.0 from LSL after Debian 2.0 became official. At the same time I ordered the Non-Free and Contrib CD's. I received the parcel in South Africa without the official Debian 2.0. It was invoiced, however and I had to

Re: emacs 20 wont install after upgrading...

1998-08-09 Thread Peter Granroth
i get this error as well as a lot of errors during the compile(?) complaining about references to free variables. i also get errors about a symlink that is supposed to be slave link or non-existent as Kent said (below) i also have put this on the back burner but would love to see a fix

Re: Strange floppy

1998-08-09 Thread Shiraz Sayani
[Maybe off-topic alert] [Maybe repeat alert - I sent this before, but didn't see it] I have a floppy disk I am trying to make a copy of as a backup. It's a Yamaha disklavier disk and fits in a standard 1.44MB floppy drive, but Windows doesn't think its formatted. I thought I'd try copying it on

Recommended SCSI cards

1998-08-09 Thread Mark Mickan
I'm going to buy a SCSI card soon, and I'm interested in peoples opinions and experiences. In particular, I've seen IWill 2935UW cards for a reasonable price, Adaptec 2940UW cards for nearly twice the price of the IWill, and the cheapest DPT card for a little more than the Adaptec 2940UW. I'm

GCC lib troubles after HAMM upgrade

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello all, Well, I seem to be having more problems then I expected after upgrading to hamm. This is probably someting simple except I can't seem to figure out where to start looking. I have a MUD which I have successfully compiled on my pre-upgraded bo system as well as some redhat erven other

Re: Changing number of colors of XServer

1998-08-09 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the information, How does the XServer know WHICH Screen section to use? I notice that my file has several sections labled like this. Thanks, Doug (Ted Harding) wrote: On 08-Aug-98 Doug Thistlethwaite wrote: My XServer is currently configured to sue 256 colors. (8 bits). I

Re: xfstt not working

1998-08-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 06:58:16AM -0400, Keith Vance wrote: Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: xfstt 0.9.7 is the version in hamm. That was before I became maintainer. ONLY version sprior to 0.9.9-3 (or so) need to be on port 7101. I am running xfstt 0.9.7. I thought so :) xfstt 0.9.7