Hi all,
I have a problem starting X. It gives the following error:
Fatal server error:
Cannot open mouse (Operation not supported by device)
This is the relevant section from /etc/X11/XF86Config:
Section "Pointer"
Protocol "Microsoft"
Device "/dev/ttyS0"
...
...
EndSection
Have you asked the ISP how many /etc/passwds (s)he has broken ... After
if, maybe, probably ... you can say anything. Talk as they say this side
of the Atlantic is CHEAP
On Tue, 18 Aug 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I was having a discussion with my ISP about Linux. He said he uses
> Windows N
On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote:
>
> *** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log
> for the
> *** exact error that occured.
Try doing this. If you don't understand config.log send a copy to the
list (gnome-list@gnome.org is probably a better ch
Hi,
I just install gnome on my system. And have check out on the gnome page
for some applications. I would like to use ggv (postcript veiwer). So i
dowload it and tri to compil it. ./configure said:
checking for pthread_create in -lpthread... yes
checking for gtk-config... /usr/bi
I would say that pppd looks at /etc/ppp/options and at /etc/ppp/peers/ISP_name.
Since you can connect to the ISP as root, I guess that your problem is pppd
permitions. does ls show the existance of /etc/ppp/options when you are
looking as root ? Does pppd is suid ?
> Related to my previous post
I can't get xisp_2.5p2-2.deb to work. And this is contrary to the fact that
pon/poff work almost without intervention (I had only to add noauth to get it
to work).
I believe that he problem with xisp is something to do with getting pppd to
work. I tried to change various flags in /etc/ppp/option
On 30 Aug 1998, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
> I use exim instead of smail, and it's easy to configure. I suppose
> that's the case with smail too, but you might consider changing if
> you run into troubles. (Just an evil plot to convert the world :-)
It is with great interest that I read this. I could
Hello again.
I'm having trouble with the VGA16 server during the configuration
portion of dselect. It asks if I want it to create the configuration
file and when I say yes I get a message saying that the file was not
created. It then repeats the question but at that point the display
becomes ske
Hi,
I installed debian 1.3.3 on my second hard disk.
I have had redhat and caldera here and have been able to boot with lilo on the
root partioton woith system commander.
On installlation it would not allow me to put lilo on the second disk in the
root partition so I had to put it on a floppy.
Ca
I'm trying to get access to a mounted vfat partition in dosemu, but get this
weird error:
C:\> lredir E: LINUX\FS\MNT/E
Error 3e redirecting drive E: to LINUX\FS\MNT/E
/mnt/E is /dev/hda6, already mounted in Linux. I tried `lredir E:
linux\fs\dos', `lredir E: linux\fs/mnt/E' and so on, with no lu
I have a ATI grphics ultra pro and I read in the ATI MACH32 readme that
X doesn't support acceleration in my chipset. Is there any way to get
some resonable response out of my old but trusty card (VLBus).
On: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 22:38:56 -0400 (EDT) Chad Glendenin writes:
>
> Netscape 4.06 refuses to run on my fresh Debian 2.0 system. I
> installed the old (libc5-based) libraries that I think it needs. I
> tried using the netscape4_4.0-12.deb package and the standard
> 'ns-install'. Either way, Net
On: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 18:54:00 -0700 (PDT) George Bonser writes:
>
> I am trying to put some debian boxes in at work and one problem I
> keep running into when setting them up is that Debian's selection of
> groups and users is different than the NIS maps being passwd
> around. This results in owne
On: 30 Aug 1998 09:07:49 +0200 Danny ter Haar writes:
>
> Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Does anyone know why vim keeps leaving ~ files around everytime I
>> edit a file?
>
> The maintainer of vim changed the default behavior
> :((( edit /etc/vimrc
>
> search for the
Ruud de Bruin wrote:
>
> I've installed the initial six diskettes from Debian 2.0 on my PC. After
> reboot I choose for a "home user" setup and via dselect I picked up all
> the files from ftp.cistron.nl, a Debian mirror site.
>
> I am having problems with the emacs20 package. During configuratio
I dont think you need to mess with setserial at all.
Please be a little more specific in describing "all the steps".
Mike
On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 02:18:42PM -0400, spOOL wrote:
> To: spOOL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: 3 com(USR) modem
>
> > Now I can't figure out how to configure my modem
Ruud de Bruin wrote:
If the errors you are getting are during the compile of the .el files
then
you might be encountering the problem I and other have had that can be
solved by de-installing the 'tm' package. Once I removed this package
then
emacs installed without any problems.
Ken
>
> I'
To: spOOL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 3 com(USR) modem
> Now I can't figure out how to configure my modem so that I can connect to
> the internet and go to the debian ftp site.
Did you run pppconfig? yesI went through all the steps to create the
connection.
When it tried to connect it
There is a set of jumpers on the front of this card to set com port
and irq, and a diagram on the back of the card showing how to use the
jumpers. com1 corresponds to /dev/ttyS0 in Linux, and this usually uses
irq 4. com2 coresponds to /dev/ttyS1 in Linux, and this usually uses
irq 3. Unless yo
I've installed the initial six diskettes from Debian 2.0 on my PC. After
reboot I choose for a "home user" setup and via dselect I picked up all
the files from ftp.cistron.nl, a Debian mirror site.
I am having problems with the emacs20 package. During configuration, I
receive an error message in s
i've setup two machines with exim ,
server1 send all trafic to the smarthost server2.
When server2 is not connected to the net , cannot resolve a lot
of domain and reject temporary the trafic from server1.
i use the default smarthost setup from debain 2.0
Any idea ?
Tony Schonfeld
Hi,
Thanks for all who helped with my X permission problem I can now run X as a
normal user in 1.3.1.
Another wierd thing is I cannot use the pbackspace key in X applications.
ie netscape,exmh or tkdesk.
It woks fine in the text editors like jpico.
The netscape I am using is 3.1 which is outdate
OkI admit itI am feeling like a total idiot!!! and I am
getting very frustrated with my systemThis list seems to be my only
source for helpso to everyone that has already answered questions for
me.thanks...and here's another one
I tried to install Debian 1.3 but couldn't
*-"Oskar Liljeblad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I am trying to set up mail delivering/fetching on a (sporadicly) dial-up
| connected computer. I have figured out that I need fetchmail to send get
| mail from my email accounts. But how should I set up email delivering?
|
| I run a single-user debian wo
I've got the initial part of the installation done. The system boots
just fine. When I run dselect, choose access, then ftp, the following
error is returned:
Query/setup script was terminated by a signal:segmentation
fault.
I've also chosen a mounted filesystem and received the same err
On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 09:22:56AM -0400, Rick Knebel wrote:
> Hi,
> I am playing around with version 1.3.1 untill my 2.0 gets here and have a
> curious problem with X.
> It will start and run fine under root.
> If I try to start it as a normal user it crashes with the message:
> Fatal Error
> xf86
Does anyone know how to make win95 use the LPT port as the network
interface so I can setup a link between my linux box with PLIP and my
win95 box
Try running 'ldd /usr/lib/netscape/netscape' and verify that all of the
libraries listed are present. 4.06/netscape4_4.0-12 is working fine here.
Bob
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Chad Glendenin wrote:
> Netscape 4.06 refuses to run on my fresh Debian 2.0 system. I installed the
> old
> (libc5-based)
> Is there a list somewhere that's compiled about technical reasons that
> Linux is better than NT? I'm interested as far as having good reasons to
> quickly list off to NT hacks. Not a matter of convincing _me_ -- just
> them.
Go to the URL of http://www.golgotha.net/why_linux/index.html and take
Rick Knebel wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am playing around with version 1.3.1 untill my 2.0 gets here and have a
> curious problem with X.
> It will start and run fine under root.
> If I try to start it as a normal user it crashes with the message:
> Fatal Error
> xf860pen Consule:
> Server must run as root
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Danny ter Haar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Hint for the maintainer: please set a default of NO backups !
Has already been done in the version in slink IIRC
Mike.
--
Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] | eventually eli
On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 06:49:39AM -0400, Brian D Kellogg wrote:
> When I do a man command on a command to look at all it's options my hard
> disk goes nuts and starts it seems reading stuff into memory until all my
> ram is filled up.
>
> any suggestions...
>
Never happened to me. But maybe a "
Hi,
I am playing around with version 1.3.1 untill my 2.0 gets here and have a
curious problem with X.
It will start and run fine under root.
If I try to start it as a normal user it crashes with the message:
Fatal Error
xf860pen Consule:
Server must run as root
Any Idea's
Thanks Alot
Rick
--
Hello,
every time i exit my X I see this:
waiting for X server to shut down FreeFontPath: FPE
"/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc:unscaled" refcount is 2, should be 1; fixing.
this is 1.3 upgraded to 2.0
how can I fix that ?
--
Matus "fantomas" Uhlar, sysadmin at NETLAB+ Kosice, Slovakia
BIC coord
I am trying to set up mail delivering/fetching on a (sporadicly) dial-up
connected computer. I have figured out that I need fetchmail to send get
mail from my email accounts. But how should I set up email delivering?
I run a single-user debian workstation, but it is possible multiple users
will us
I thought I'd do some cgi programming, so I installed apache 1.3.1-3. During
the configure process, I got these errors:
httpd: cannot determine local host name.
Use ServerName to set it manually.
/usr/sbin/apachectl start: httpd could not be started
I set the local host name manually, and e
*-Roland Hinkley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| KDEbase depends on qt1g and the debian readme says to look on www.troll.
| The pre-compiled version there appears to be only the rpm version of qt. I
| downloaded this anyway and converted it with alien but of course this only
| supplied qt. I then fooled dp
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, Asher Haig wrote:
> Is there a list somewhere that's compiled about technical reasons that
> Linux is better than NT? I'm interested as far as having good reasons to
> quickly list off to NT hacks. Not a matter of convincing _me_ -- just
> them.
>
Not exactly a list, but
When I do a man command on a command to look at all it's options my hard
disk goes nuts and starts it seems reading stuff into memory until all my
ram is filled up.
any suggestions...
Brian
*-"DMDP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I would like to be able to compile code within EMACS. It is my
| understanding that this can be done with C, Fortran, or LISP.
|
| If not, what utilities should I use in conjunction with g++ to make
| debugging easier than using COUT statement for each variable.
When I try to read the ISO image from a CD, either with cat or dd, the reading
speed (I read with a SCSI 4x/2x Philips CDD2600 cd-writer) seems to be around
70Kb per second (half 1x !). If I mount the CD I can read at full 4x, no
problem: what could it be? Do I need some utility to set cd reading s
Hi,
First, having received the cdroms from LSL, the installation of Debian 2.0
on a notebook (HP Omnibook) was straightforward - congratulations to the
developers.
Having got X to work, using the Redhat XBF server, I thought I would try
KDE. This is where I seem to miss something.
KDEbase depends
On Sun, Aug 30, 1998 at 10:34:24AM +0200, Ole J. Tetlie wrote:
> |
> | Can anyone explain why this happens?
>
> Yes. You are encountering what is called a the command hash table.
>
> Let's say you type 'fred'. If your shell (bash?) were to search all
> the directories in your path it could take
*-Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
|
| I've got another weird problem which is kind of annoying.
|
| Say I have a program in /usr/bin, called fred for example. I can run
| fred and everything is fine.
|
| Then I create a file in /usr/local/bin, which is also called fred (say a
| wrapper for the real on
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Does anyone know why vim keeps leaving ~ files around everytime I edit a file?
The maintainer of vim changed the default behavior :(((
edit /etc/vimrc
search for the line
set backup" keep a backup file
and uncomment this like
Hi all,
I've got another weird problem which is kind of annoying.
Say I have a program in /usr/bin, called fred for example. I can run
fred and everything is fine.
Then I create a file in /usr/local/bin, which is also called fred (say a
wrapper for the real one). Since /usr/local/bin is earli
Hi all,
Does anyone know why vim keeps leaving ~ files around everytime I edit a file?
ie: if I run
> vim prog.c
a file called prog.c~ will be left in the directory.
TIA,
chris
--
---
REALITY.SYS corrupted: Reboot universe?
Hi,
Well i have read what i wrote, and i confirm myself i have troubles with
english It were not clear what i wanted to ask. I
have problems with X. I wanted to know what was going up with X. I have
play a little with this, and it was a permision
problem. Im new to all this of permitions, so
> When i login as a user, and put startx in a term, X said that cannot
> find the program /home/user/.xinitrc. And that i should make sure
You'll need to create a ~/.xinitrc, with execute bit set. Try
--
#!/bin/sh
exec fvwm
--
for starters, and hit "man xinit"
On Sat, Aug 29, 1998 at 07:40:47PM -0500, Asher Haig shared with us the
following words of wisdom:
> Is there a list somewhere that's compiled about technical reasons that
> Linux is better than NT? I'm interested as far as having good reasons to
> quickly list off to NT hacks. Not a matter of c
Netscape 4.06 refuses to run on my fresh Debian 2.0 system. I installed the
old
(libc5-based) libraries that I think it needs. I tried using the
netscape4_4.0-12.deb package and the standard 'ns-install'. Either way,
Netscape is installed, but when I run it, all I get is an immediate
segmen
John Hasler writes:
>I just tried it: works fine for me. Do you have minicom set up for 8N1?
Yes, but when I checked that I saw the problem. Baud was set to 57600,
but I was using 38400 in the pppd command. As long as they match, it works.
That was a lot of effort to find a simple solution to
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998, spOOL wrote:
>I can't quite figure out how to setup my ati all in wonder pro for X on
>Hamm. I have tried the mach64 thing and that only gives me a black screen.
>Am I missing something??
>
I have successfully configured the ATI All-in-Wonder Pro for X. It has been
my exper
I would like to be able to compile code within EMACS. It is my
understanding that this can be done with C, Fortran, or LISP.
If not, what utilities should I use in conjunction with g++ to make
debugging easier than using COUT statement for each variable.
Thank you for your response,
Denis
Point DSELECT to your CD rom first. Once you've mounted the CD, type:
/debian/main
This will reference the root. For the remaining questions, respond NONE.
This worked for me.
Denis
-Original Message-
From: Cristov Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Date:
Is there a list somewhere that's compiled about technical reasons that
Linux is better than NT? I'm interested as far as having good reasons to
quickly list off to NT hacks. Not a matter of convincing _me_ -- just
them.
I'd appreciate either a url of somewhere that has a bunch of reasons or
j
George Bonser wrote:
>
> WHen trying to make menuconfig on 2.0.35-1 I get the following:
>
> scripts/Menuconfig: line 1183: 8917 Segmentation fault $DIALOG
> --backtitle "$backtitle" --infobox "Preparing configuration scripts..." 3
> 40
> make: *** [menuconfig] Error 1
>
> If I issue the c
I can't quite figure out how to setup my ati all in wonder pro for X on
Hamm. I have tried the mach64 thing and that only gives me a black screen.
Am I missing something??
Could my attempt to setup my monitor be the prob
Where can I go to find this info.I have searched ATI's website and
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