X-Windows con tarjeta gráfica AGP

1998-08-16 Thread Pedro F. Pareja
Saludos a los miembros de la lista: Mi ordenador dispone de una tarjeta gráfica Leadtek Winfast 3D S900 con 4 Mb de memoria video. Está equipada con el chip i740 de Intel y es del tipo AGP. Mi problema es que supongo que no existe soporte aún en Linux para hacerla funcionar en Debian 1.3.1 (Linux

Re: LILO

1998-08-16 Thread Roberto Ruiz
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 01:57:30PM +0200, M.G. wrote: sigo con el problema de arranque: para arrancar Debian debo hacerlo con el Boot Disk, el LILO parece funcionar desde allí... ¿alguna idea? en /etc/lilo.conf tengo lo siguiente: boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda2 compact

Re: Fuentes TrueType

1998-08-16 Thread Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
J.Parera wrote: Hola, uno de los temas que más me lia en Linux es el de las Fuentes. Me pueden explicar que es lo que he de hacer para poder instalar en Linix las fuentes que tengo en el W95? Mejor dejas de tenerlo };- Cómo se mantienen las fuentes? Instalar, desinstalar. Necesitas un

Re: ¡¡¡¡ ATENCION!!!! Distribución de Debian 2.0

1998-08-16 Thread Francisco M. Marzoa Alonso
Burning Ice wrote: Saludos: Aun no me lo creo, pero ya tengo Debian 2.0 Pues si, tan solo 12 dias despues de pedirlo a www.datom.de/debian me a llegado el paquete con los tres CD´s en perfecto estado. Lo mejor de todo es que me adjuntan una carta

RE: dselect y tres CDs, como utilizo los tres a la vez

1998-08-16 Thread Burning Ice
Saludos: Si te has leido el readme que viene en el raiz de los CDs (y que envi junto al mensage anterior), veras que los pasos a seguir son: - copiar el paquete dpkg-multicd_0_7_all.deb a un directorio (/tmp por ejemplo ) en el readme dice que dicho paquete se encuentra en /updates

RE: NS Communicator 4.05, hamm y las oldlibs

1998-08-16 Thread Burning Ice
Que hay de novo meu: En Debian 2 hay dos paquetes que se encargan de instalar el NS Comunicator (uno para las versiones 3.* y otro para las versiones 4.*) lo unico que hay que tener en cuenta es poner el tar original (Communicator-v4*.x86-*-linux*.tar para la version 4) en el directorio

RE: dselect y tres CDs, como utilizo los tres a la vez

1998-08-16 Thread J . Parera
Hola, - una vez instalado (es un scrip que se encarga de modificar el metodo de acceso del programa dselect a los paquetes, e incluso lo hace mas rapido) lo unico que tendras que hacer es ejecutar el dselect, y en la seccion correspondiente a escoger el metodo de acceso

Debian 2.0 llego

1998-08-16 Thread TooManySecrets
Buenas. Ante todo disculpas por el medio por el cual envío el mensaca... Pero estoy fuera de casa y ya se sabe... Para los interesados en conseguir Debian 2.0 (los 3 cd's), diré que me llegó el pedido que hice a Datom, de Alemania. Me ha sorprendido muchísimo, ya que hacen un alarde impensable

Re: Debian 2.0 llego

1998-08-16 Thread J . Parera
Hola, Pero bueno, quisiera preguntar acerca del paquete multi-cd para la Debian 2.0, ya que no viene en el cd. Realmente no sé si sirve para si tienes una batería de lectoras de cd o para poder dominar la instalación completa de los tres cd's; stable, non-free, contrib, etc. Ese paquete hay que

Solución a conectarme a internet mediante infovía con pon

1998-08-16 Thread J . Parera
Hola, el problema era simplemente que al pedirme el nombre de usuario lo ponía si el @proveedor (me conecto por infovía) por lo que el login fallaba. Aunque examinando el ppp.log he visto que salen varias lineas que antes no salian por lo que las pongo aqui por si alguien sabe de que se trata.

Debian cumple 5 años

1998-08-16 Thread Luis Francisco Gonzalez
Bueno, para aquellos que no lo sepan. Hoy domingo se cumplen cinco años desde el nacimiento de Debian. ¡Felicidades! Luis. -- Luis Francisco Gonzalez [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Fingerprint = F8 B1 13 DE 22 22 94 A1 14 BE 95 8E 49 39 78 76

Re: e2fsck error on boot

1998-08-16 Thread Mark Wagnon
Thank you for the quick response. I must have gone a little crazy with the 'x' when editing /etc/fstab. That was the problem. Thanks again for getting me back up and running, Mark --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Curious question - does the bootup message really say /dev/hda rather than

ATI Rage 3D Pro AGP with X

1998-08-16 Thread Matthew Myers
Does anyone know how to successfully configure X to run with an ATI Rage 3D Pro AGP? When I try to run X it seems to start okay, but the screen is divided into thirds vertically, and in each section I can only see the far right third of the screen. it scrolls, but show the same thing in each

cgi script for dos2unix and unix2dos?

1998-08-16 Thread Paul Miller
Anyone have a cgi script for the dos2unix and unix2dos commands? I'm not talented in html or cgi scripts, so I can't exactly make one. Here's how I thought it might work: 1) web page: 2 radio switches, 1st=dos2unix, 2nd=unix2dos 2 small text fields ok button at the bottom of page

Driver for Intel Ether Express 10+

1998-08-16 Thread gbh
I just installed Debian 2.0 but there is no driver for the Intel EtherExpress 10+ ISA card. Does anyone know where to get one? --Greg

Re: cgi script for dos2unix and unix2dos

1998-08-16 Thread John
If nobody else wants to do this, I will. Except users will have to upload the text (i have a lame java applet that lets you upload from your browser) then it would Have the switches and a Okay button. I see no need for password though. If you want it password protected just stick a .htaccess

Re: ATI Rage 3D Pro AGP with X

1998-08-16 Thread Michael B. Taylor
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 08:55:13PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: Does anyone know how to successfully configure X to run with an ATI Rage 3D Pro AGP? When I try to run X it seems to start okay, but the screen is divided into thirds vertically, and in each section I can only see the far right

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

1998-08-16 Thread Noel Yap
The xfstt package that comes with hamm is very minimalistic in terms of documentation and user setup. You might be better off installing the more up-to-date package in slink, which more-or-less takes care of everything for you. Anyway, here's a brief description of what you need to do: 1. Put

Connection closed

1998-08-16 Thread Richard Sevenich
When I connect to certain hosts via telnet (similar via ftp), I'll get a messgae like this: Connected to site.whatever.edu Escape character is '^]'. which is as usual then followed by: Connection closed by foreign host. Assume for the moment that it is not an ISP problem, is there anything

Debian linux 2.0 Base installation

1998-08-16 Thread Miguel de Benito
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-Hash: SHA1 - THIS IS A TECH. QUESTION REGARDING DEBIAN LINUX 2.0 INSTALL , IF ISHOULDNT HAVE ASKED YOU, PLEASE JUST MAIL ME ANY ADDRESS WHERE I CANASK, THANKS Dear sir.Im addressing to you in a desperate look for help. Im trying toinstall Debian

Re: Installing XFSTT on HAMM

1998-08-16 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 11:48:16PM -0400, Noel Yap wrote: The xfstt package that comes with hamm is very minimalistic in terms of documentation and user setup. yes it is...thats one of the main reasons I took over maintenance of it You might be better off installing the more up-to-date

AWE 64, Sound blaster...........

1998-08-16 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, How can i make the option ``AWE32 support'' appear in the kernel configuration?? (It's supposted to apear when installing awe-midi isnit??) Thats all. Thanks Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Get Your Private, Free Email at

Re: Connection closed

1998-08-16 Thread Joey Hess
Richard Sevenich wrote: Connected to site.whatever.edu Escape character is '^]'. which is as usual then followed by: Connection closed by foreign host. Assume for the moment that it is not an ISP problem, is there anything specific to my machine that is causing this? Probably not.

Re: Connection closed

1998-08-16 Thread Taren
When I connect to certain hosts via telnet (similar via ftp), I'll get a messgae like this: Connected to site.whatever.edu Escape character is '^]'. which is as usual then followed by: Connection closed by foreign host. Assume for the moment that it is not an ISP problem, is

Re: ATI Rage 3D Pro AGP with X

1998-08-16 Thread Matthew Myers
Michael B. Taylor wrote: On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 08:55:13PM -0500, Matthew Myers wrote: Does anyone know how to successfully configure X to run with an ATI Rage 3D Pro AGP? When I try to run X it seems to start okay, but the screen is divided into thirds vertically, and in each section

Hamm installation --- failure (base14-1 fails crc check)

1998-08-16 Thread adavis
Installing Hamm from images I have FTPed from one of the debian mirrors. Trying to install on a 486DX/33 Gateway 200 (donated to our Science Department by a local engineering firm). This machine is destined, with luck and whatever else, to be the Internet gateway machine for our Science

gpm and extended ascii chars

1998-08-16 Thread Azog
Hello, this may sound a bit wierd, but is there a way to get gpm to copy/paste extended ascii chars? On my old slackware system, it would... Was just wondering if anyone had any ideas for me =] Thanks -- -Josh Co-Admin of California.ZUH.net (Azog) ..and always remember...arf is god spelled

Re: 8013wc card

1998-08-16 Thread Norbert Veber
In linux.debian.user, you wrote: I am trying to find out the driver that the SMC card known as EtherCard Plus Elite 16T (8013wc) uses.. I'm using Debian and I thought that it would use the NE2000 driver because I've used this before with another but different SMC card. Can anybody help? I have

Cheap*Bytes 2.0 CD-ROM

1998-08-16 Thread jason and jill
I bought the $1.99 2.0 CD-ROM from Cheapbytes to do the hamm upgrade to my system. Got it in the mail Friday, brought it home, took my wife to see Saving Private Ryan, we got home at 1am, she fell asleep instantly, I couldn't so I tried doing the upgrade. The upgrade script on the CD was

RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-16 Thread David B. Teague
On Fri, 14 Aug 1998, Hank Fay and others wrote: Well you could also try typing setfont default8x16 This is the only thing that would sort out an old Avance card that I have when i exitted from X to a VC. But I'm not optimistic, as my problem affected *all* VCs. [..] Yup; it affects all

RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-16 Thread Hank Fay
Yes, setfont does work, fixing all consoles (all are affected) at once. Now I'm trying to learn how to make setfont run on my way out of X. If I don't learn that, I can try what you have below, but that seems to be one-VC oriented. Thanks much, Hank -Original Message- From: David B.

pppd

1998-08-16 Thread Franz
Hi ! Does anyone know, why the pppd disconnects after the handshake with the provider modem? The script is ok, under suse 5.2 it worked without any problem. Franz

Linux as OS course.

1998-08-16 Thread Liran Zvibel
Hi. The OS course here is going to become more OS specific. If professors didn't decide yet whether they want it to be Linux or NT (blahh...) specific. If I can find some course material about Linux, they'll probably take it (and make the course Linux specific.) Do you know where I can find

Re: pppd

1998-08-16 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi Franz: Send a trace of the PPP negotiation (via the debug option) and we can tell you why. Peter -Original Message- From: Franz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, August 16, 1998 6:23 AM Subject: pppd Hi ! Does anyone

Problem w/ 2.0 NFS installation

1998-08-16 Thread W. Borgert
Hi, I'm using hamm since a April now on both a normal PC and a laptop. Upgrading from bo was relatively easy and I'm very happy w/ hamm. But: Now I built up a new PC w/ a new, clean harddisk, a network card, but w/o a CD-ROM. I like to install hamm via NFS, but I don't get the clue. I boot

HELP! emufs doesn't work with FreeDos under dosemu in Debian

1998-08-16 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All! I just had to run some DO$ software on my Linux Box (exactly: the monitor for DSP56002EVM evaluation module and DSP56002 assembler). I have decided to install the dosemu. To keep my box M$-free I wanted to use the FreeDOS (included in dosemu package). And here my problem begins: I was

Re: AWE 64, Sound blaster...........

1998-08-16 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, phillip Neumann wrote: Hi, How can i make the option ``AWE32 support'' appear in the kernel configuration?? (It's supposted to apear when installing awe-midi isnit??) Unfortunately, no... you need to compile a new kernel with AWE support. For that, you need the

Installing on Toshiba Satellite Pro 490XCDT

1998-08-16 Thread Chris Evans
I've got Hamm installed on this machine on the /dev/hda3 (using hda2 for swap). All seems to have gone fine for the basic install judging from copying the linux image from the boot floppy to a directory on /dev/hda1 and loading it with loadlin. I've even followed the pointers from a month or

command line prg to set quotas?

1998-08-16 Thread Paul Miller
I need a command line program to set user quotas. Does one exist? Thanks -Paul

Re: command line prg to set quotas?

1998-08-16 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Paul: I use the edquota command. Its pretty easy to use just read the man page. You should note that quota must be turned on in the kernel and the target file system must be mounted with quotas on -- i.e. in /etc/fstab # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system

Re: refocus photo?

1998-08-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:59:44PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: Hi, I've got (at least) one photo taken while the camera was moving. Only one? :) I'd really like to get rid of the vageness caused by this motion. Mmmh. I doubt that this is possible... but I'd like to be proofed wrong.

Re: Cheap*Bytes 2.0 CD-ROM

1998-08-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 03:34:22AM -0400, jason and jill wrote: I bought the $1.99 2.0 CD-ROM from Cheapbytes to do the hamm upgrade to my system. hello, a great story, thank you for the reading! Script worked great. Wonderful. I'm happy that Cheap*Byte is there. They are cheap, and I

Re: refocus photo?

1998-08-16 Thread Joost Witteveen
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 10:59:44PM +0200, Joost Witteveen wrote: Hi, I've got (at least) one photo taken while the camera was moving. Only one? :) Well, one that I care about. Much more, actually. I'd really like to get rid of the vageness caused by this motion. Mmmh. I doubt

Installation Problem on Quantum IDE Harddisk

1998-08-16 Thread Joris Lambrecht
Hi, I hope this is the right place to report this issue. I have a Quantum IDE HD wich works fine, After installing the Debian system onto it and rebooting the system it only shows a message reporting 'invalid partition table' although i use the boot: option 'linux hd=1056,16,63' to make Linux

Re: New to Debian; emacs20 broken after fresh install of Hamm.

1998-08-16 Thread Ruud Janssen
George Bonser wrote: I recall that there were task profiles ranging from 25M (base system) to over 500M (scientific workstation). There also was something like a custom profile in which you could select individual components. My guess is that emacs will be installed in all larger profiles, since

Re: SOLVED: eth0 and ppp0: how to setup routing?

1998-08-16 Thread Ruud Janssen
Your assumption was right. My main mistake was to think that rout add default means as much as everything should go here, where in fact it means everything not already going elsewhere should go here, and elsewhere is defined by any route add -net lines. The solution I chose was to restore the

xterm-debian

1998-08-16 Thread Havoc Pennington
Hi, I just upgraded to 2.0, I was running an old pre-2.0. Now when I ssh to a remote server I get complaints about the lack of a terminfo entry for xterm-debian. Isn't there a way to add a terminfo entry in my remote home directory? How? Or is there a better solution? Thanks, Havoc Pennington

Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

1998-08-16 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Fri, Aug 14, 1998 at 01:40:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: Quoting Robert J. Alexander ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The debugging I and a friend in IBM have been doing seem to pinpoint the resolver problems I had to the release of libc6 we just both upgraded to: Version: 2.0.7t-1 with

Delay Sending Mail

1998-08-16 Thread Michael Laing
Since I upgraded to Hamm on both my machine and my local server, when I send mail from my client (Netscape) the server for delivery, the client waits until the email address is verified before proceeding. This is sometimes painful because the server uses diald and it takes a while. How do I

Re: xterm-debian

1998-08-16 Thread Heikki Vatiainen
Hi, I solved the same problem I had with TERM=rxvt by copying the rxvt entry from Linux to /usr/share/lib/terminfo/r directory in Solaris. Another way to do this is to use TERMINFO variable and set it to e.g. $HOME/.terminfo and put your xterm-debian entry in that directory. However, I have

Re: Cheap*Bytes 2.0 CD-ROM

1998-08-16 Thread Benoit Goudreault-Emond
jason == jason and jill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] jason Imagine my suprise when I came home this evening to find jason email from Cheapbytes with a fixed script. Someone from jason Cheapbytes had seen my list post on a usenet mirror, took a jason look at the script, saw

Re: warnings running man?

1998-08-16 Thread Richard L. Alhama
On Wed, 12 Aug 1998, Ed Cogburn wrote: Lee Bradshaw wrote: I'm having problems with some man pages. The warnings about bad symlink or ROFF `.so' request sometimes show up when typing man somecommand. Is there a way to get rid of these warnings? Here are some of the relevant files and

.BIN Files

1998-08-16 Thread Collin Rose
Where can I get the program (dos mode) that encodes files to the .bin format. Collin

Connection problem

1998-08-16 Thread Richard Sevenich
This is a repost of an earlier cry for help, but embellished with more information. My machine has two partitions, one for Win95 and one for Debian 2.0. I use a modem and ppp for Internet access. From the debian side there are certain remote sites to which I cannot login, the connection gets

Re: AWE 64, Sound blaster...........

1998-08-16 Thread Greg Norris
Did you run the install.sh script from the awedrv package? I believe it's located in /usr/src/awedrv (assuming that awedrv is installed, of course). You'll need to do that prior to configuring your new kernel settings, to apply the AWExx patches. On Sat, Aug 15, 1998 at 10:56:31PM -0700,

Re: command line prg to set quotas?

1998-08-16 Thread John
man quota ... (0 0) ooo--v--ooo Windows 95 packs with solitare (ooohhh!), Linux packs with DOOM. You can have your deck of

netscape 4 installer

1998-08-16 Thread Richard L. Alhama
will NS Communicator 4.06 work with netscape4.deb or can I just mv the NS tarball to NS Communicator 4.05? Thanks all! Admiral Charah Tech Support, Cyberspace Laoag, ISP http://www2.csi.com.ph/~keyoz Overuse of the smiley is a mark of loserhood --The Jargon File V4.0.0

Re: command line prg to set quotas?

1998-08-16 Thread Paul Miller
Quota only displays user quotas. Edquota edits quotas, but only with a editor. It doesn't not accept command line arguments for soft/hard/etc. limits. -Paul On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, John wrote: man quota ...

Lower bogomips in debian?

1998-08-16 Thread none
Hi, I just recently installed debian 2.0 on my pc at home and I just noticed something odd as I booted. Since I have started using debian it shows 249.04 bogomips whereas when I used to run slackware,redhat,suse it would show 332.60 bogomips. I know this probably isnt such a big deal but it struck

Re: cgi script for dos2unix and unix2dos

1998-08-16 Thread Paul Miller
On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John wrote: If nobody else wants to do this, I will. Except users will have to upload the text (i have a lame java applet that lets you upload from your browser) then it would Have the switches and a Okay button. I see no need for password though. If you want it

Yet more problems with a MUD

1998-08-16 Thread David L. Kocher
Hi all I have the mud compiling and running fine, however... the minute someone who is not from localhost tries to log on it segments and dies it works fine when logging on from localhost. WTF is going on here? Is there anything that might be misconfigured to cause this? Dave

Re: WARNING : libc6 Version: 2.0.7t-1 breaks resolv routines

1998-08-16 Thread john
Adrian writes: It's wierder than that as someone at IBM pointed out - host 127.0.0.1 _does_ read /etc/hosts, but host localhost doesn't. Strange. From the man page: host [-v] [-a] [-t querytype] [options] name [server] ... ... host looks for information about

Re: X-windows

1998-08-16 Thread Roy Ayres
Michael Stenner wrote: My problem is that I can only get X running in 320x200 mode. I configured the XF86Config file using XF86Setup. My video card is an OEM from Gateway - it's meant to be an STB Nitro DVD. I heard somewhere that it has a riva128 chipset, and I know that it has 4 megs RAM.

Re: netscape 4 installer

1998-08-16 Thread Peter Granroth
will NS Communicator 4.06 work with netscape4.deb or can I just mv the NS tarball to NS Communicator 4.05? Thanks all! It will work just fine (Just did the upgrade myself) -- -- + Peter Granroth + Microsoft

RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-16 Thread D'jinnie
Don't know where I got this little script - but it usually fixes most console problems for me... #!/bin/sh # fixvt 1.00 # Fixes console corruption from vt bombs and the like #(c) 1994 Brian Stoler -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] #Freely redistributable under the GPL 2 #Mail me any

Re: cgi script for dos2unix and unix2dos

1998-08-16 Thread Nicholas J. Leon
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: # On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John wrote: # # If nobody else wants to do this, I will. Except users will have to upload # the text (i have a lame java applet that lets you upload from your # browser) then it would Have the switches and a Okay button. I

Netscape Problem: SOLVED -- but now what?

1998-08-16 Thread Howard S. \('Sherm'\) Ostrowsky
Hi A couple days ago I sent a cry for help because my Netscape had suddenly stopped working. I got a number of helpful replies, for which I thank the writers. But I solved it myself. In case anyone else is having a similar problem, here's what I found: Some weks ago I had put a link in

Why am I no longer on this list?

1998-08-16 Thread Howard S. \('Sherm'\) Ostrowsky
Hi As of about a week ago, I have stopped getting any new messages from the Debian-user digest, to which I have been subscribed for over a year now. I sorely miss my daily fix of information and interesting odds and ends. I tried to resubscribe a couple days ago, but so far I am still not

OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-16 Thread Richard L. Alhama
How do you guys sort all this mail? This list is actually the first discussion-list that I've subscribed to. I'm at my wits end trying to sort all this incoming mail. I need to be able to put all the emails from debian-users to a folder (file?). I'm using pine as my MUA. What packages do I

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:46:19 +0800 (PHT), Richard L. Alhama wrote: How do you guys sort all this mail? Well, with Pine I'd recommend Procmail. However, if you're using Exim it has filtering capabilities of its own. -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are

Cheapbytes installed : now some questions

1998-08-16 Thread Jor-el
Hi, I did my first successful install of Debian 2.0 from a Cheapbytes cd. It wasnt quite as slick as I would have liked it to be, but I did get it working. I did have some problems initially with confiuring 'dip' to work. (The ppp install script crashed with an error. Unfortunately, I

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 11:38:11AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:46:19 +0800 (PHT), Richard L. Alhama wrote: How do you guys sort all this mail? Well, with Pine I'd recommend Procmail. However, if you're using Exim it has filtering capabilities of its own. I didn't

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-16 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, 16 Aug 1998 20:42:52 +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I didn't knew that. I use exim and fetchmail+procmail. Would you recommend fetchmail+exim+exim's filter instead? Do you have an example configuration for the Debian lists? Nope. I don't have any mail going to my personal machine

Re: cgi script for dos2unix and unix2dos

1998-08-16 Thread Brian Schau
Tried it and got: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /~nicholas/convert.cgi on this server Nicholas J. Leon wrote: On Sun, 16 Aug 1998, Paul Miller wrote: # On Sat, 15 Aug 1998, John wrote: # # If nobody else wants to do this, I will. Except users will have to

Re: Cheapbytes installed : now some questions

1998-08-16 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 01:30:01PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: I did my first successful install of Debian 2.0 from a Cheapbytes cd. It wasnt quite as slick as I would have liked it to be, but I did get it working. Every suggetsion for improvement is welcome! (Not that we have the time and

Re: Segmentation fault with SO3.1

1998-08-16 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 21:59:37 +0800 (HKT) jc writes: Hi, I have just installed hamm and StarOffice 3.1 but I cannot get 'setup' running as normal user. It told me Segmentation fault. I have installed libc5 in /lib and I have the environment variable 'LD_LIBRARY_PATH'

RE: Nuking damned scrambled consoles.

1998-08-16 Thread Hank Fay
Cool. Thanks. How would I hook this in to run whenever I come out of X? Thanks, Hank Using VFP: MS's OOP Production Tool http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/fayhj -Original Message- From: D'jinnie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 16, 1998 2:01 PM To: debian-user

Cheabytes installed : now some questions

1998-08-16 Thread Jor-el
Marcus, Thanks for your reply. I havent yet acted on all your suggestions as I am still digesting the info. But I do have some preliminary comments (see below). Kenneth Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sun, Aug 16, 1998 at 01:30:01PM -0500, Jor-el wrote: I did my first successful install

Re: OFF-TOPIC (How do you guys sort your mail?)

1998-08-16 Thread David Stern
On Mon, 17 Aug 1998 02:46:19 +0800, Richard L. Alhama wrote: How do you guys sort all this mail? This list is actually the first discussion-list that I've subscribed to. I'm at my wits end trying to sort all this incoming mail. I need to be able to put all the emails from debian-users to a

Formatting a file with mkfs.msdos

1998-08-16 Thread Steve Lamb
Does anyone have a clue as how to format a file with mkfs.msdos? -- Steve C. Lamb | Opinions expressed by me are not my http://www.calweb.com/~morpheus| employer's. They hired me for my ICQ: 5107343 | skills and labor, not my

THANKS ! RE: minimal files essential for booting ?

1998-08-16 Thread G. Crimp
Thanks to all who helped on this one!! Indeed, it was /lib that was missing during boot. I repartitioned the disk putting /etc, /bin and /lib back on the / partition, and everything is hunky dorry. I am now set to enjoy the freedom acquired by moving from a 115 MB drive to a 6.1 GB drive.

Re: xterm-debian

1998-08-16 Thread Raja R Harinath
Havoc Pennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just upgraded to 2.0, I was running an old pre-2.0. Now when I ssh to a remote server I get complaints about the lack of a terminfo entry for xterm-debian. Isn't there a way to add a terminfo entry in my remote home directory? How? Or is there a

Re: audio problem

1998-08-16 Thread Jens Ritter
Ralph Winslow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've re-built 2.0.34 to support sound and installed bplay and splay and installed rvplayer. When I bplay /usr/lib/exmh/clink.au it responds with bplay: /dev/dsp: Device not configured ls -l /dev/dsp 83698 crw-rw-rw- 1 root audio14, 20

Re: xterm-debian

1998-08-16 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi, Read /usr/doc/X11/README.Debian on your systems. That file has explanations and solutions for your problems with xterm-debian. -Ossama

HOWTO packages

1998-08-16 Thread Jor-el
Hi, Are the HOWTO's available in Hamm as a debian package? Thanks, Kenneth

Re: HOWTO packages

1998-08-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Jor-el ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Are the HOWTO's available in Hamm as a debian package? doc-linux-text | doc-linux-html Mike Stone

PPPstats in Debian 2.0

1998-08-16 Thread Sergey Imennov
Hi, First off, 2.0 is v. good: many more packages, better configured, etc. However, there is one thing that I don't like about the distribution ( actually, it's kernel... ) -- pppstats. - No totals every 20th line -

Problem with MATLAB 5.2.1 and Debian 2.0

1998-08-16 Thread Bill Blackwell
Hi, When I recently upgraded to Debian 2.0, MATLAB died. I've taken care of the libraries: libg++.so.27 libstdc++.so.27 libdl.so.1 When I try to run matlab I get the following message: Regex Error: Memory exhausted Aborted Have any of you run into this? What's the fix? Mathworks is giving

Re: AWE 64, Sound blaster...........

1998-08-16 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, I have try to do that. When i run the install script linux said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/awedrv -- ./install.sh Linux source root directory [/usr/src/linux] checking the version of installed sound driver.. sound driver is USS copying source files:

[2] AWE 64, Sound blaster...........

1998-08-16 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, I have try to do that. When i run the install script linux said: [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/src/awedrv -- ./install.sh Linux source root directory [/usr/src/linux] checking the version of installed sound driver.. sound driver is USS copying source files:

Re: PPPstats in Debian 2.0

1998-08-16 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Sergey Imennov ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): However, there is one thing that I don't like about the distribution ( actually, it's kernel... ) -- pppstats. - No totals every 20th line Mine's giving me totals. Maybe your terminal type is set up wrong?

Autokill Runaway scripts?

1998-08-16 Thread Kent Andersen
anyone know of an animal that watches user processes and will autokill them if they start to use too much CPU or runaway? I have had a small problem with this, sometimes on my own programs and would like a watchdog to kill them before they become a problem. Kent

[3] AWE 64, Sound blaster...........

1998-08-16 Thread phillip Neumann
Hi, I cannot stil find AWE32 support ;( Well i find ``Additional low level drivers. When i select it then apears the ``ACI mixer (microPCM12)'', but nothing more. Here what i see inside sound menu: |M Sound card support | |

CD doesn't work after upgrade.

1998-08-16 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Hello, I have a recently upgraded 2.0 system (from an bo install). Today I tried to mount a cd, but with no luck. I tried: # mount -t iso9660 /dev/scd0 /cdrom mount: the kernel does not recognize /dev/scd0 as a block device (maybe `insmod driver'?) I have also tried several other

[Fwd: Cheapbytes installed : now some questions]

1998-08-16 Thread Jor-el
---BeginMessage--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I did have some problems initially with confiuring 'dip' to work. (The ppp install script crashed with an error. By 'install script' do you mean pppconfig? If so, please try again and send me a report. I'm the author of pppconfig. No.