Re: Herramientas de desarrollo para Xwindow

1998-10-06 Thread TooManySecrets
Marcelo E. Magallon el día Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 09:53:25AM -0600 expuso lo siguiente: On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 05:02:38PM +0200, dcharro wrote: Tambien existen las librerias Xforms pero si eres integrista-GNU tendras problemas filosoficos. Hay limitaciones con las licencias. Esta fltk si

Re: wmaker

1998-10-06 Thread TooManySecrets
Marcelo E. Magallon el día Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 03:06:45PM -0600 expuso lo siguiente: A mi me funciona: * botón derecho en la ventana raíz (ok, ok, en el escritorio) - WorkSpace - Appearance - Themes - tema... Si no, puedes darle: $ setstyle

Re: Linux Actual

1998-10-06 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Petete wrote: Ya me joroba bastante que la revista sea bimensual con la tira de revistas que hay mensuales y hasta semanales para otros sistemas que mejor no nombrar, pero que la hagan trimestral es que Yo prefiero que sea bimensual porque me compro otras (P.Actual, por ejemplo) y el

XDM de otra maquina

1998-10-06 Thread Alberto F. Hamilton Castro
Hola a todos, tengo una máquina corriendo Debian 2.0 con xdm y me gustaría que antes de hacer login me indicara la lista de otros servidores xdm que hay disponibles en mi red (además de mi propia máquina) para poderme conectar a ellos. ¿Cómo podría hacer esto (si se puede) ? Gracias.

Gseq. ¿Lo 'Debianizo' o que hago?

1998-10-06 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola a todos. Resulta que estoy desarrollando Gseq. Se trata del G Sequencer, un secuenciador para Linux. Es un proyecto a largo plazo (o corto segun se mire ;-) que estamos realizando por ahora entre David y yo. La cosa es que David y yo estamos de acuerdo de poner el codigo fuente a disposicion

Re: Gseq. ¿Lo 'Debianizo' o que hago?

1998-10-06 Thread Santiago Vila
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: La cosa es que David y yo estamos de acuerdo de poner el codigo fuente a disposicion total para todos. O sea, lo mas gratuito y de dominio publico que pueda ser. Mejor que sea libre, y que cada cual cobre por su distribución lo que quiera. Si

Re: Para que metí la pata!

1998-10-06 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Vzquez, Gustavo wrote: Saludos. El otro da, vichando un poco con la password de root ( ahora me doy cuenta eso de usarla con discrecion) borreo en el directorio /bin un directorio (les miento si me acurdo si era un simbolic link o un directorio de verdad) llamado ~XF8611 (o algo por el estilo).

Re: instalacion xemacs

1998-10-06 Thread David R. Leal Valmana
Fernando wrote: He instalado la distribucion de Debian 2.0 de la revista Linux Actual (r1b1) Tengo problemas con el xemacs20 a la hora de configurarse no lo completa bien. install/tm: Handling install of emacsen flavor emacs20 install/tm: byte-compiling for emacs20 emacs-install:

Re: Gseq. ¿Lo 'Debianizo' o que hago?

1998-10-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 02:26:48PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: La cosa es que David y yo estamos de acuerdo de poner el codigo fuente a disposicion total para todos. O sea, lo mas gratuito y de dominio publico que pueda ser. Mejor que sea

Re: nuevas preguntas wmaker Era:wmaker

1998-10-06 Thread Gustavo
Date: Mon, 5 Oct 1998 09:42:29 -0600 From: Marcelo E. Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To:[EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: nuevas preguntas wmaker Era:wmaker Uso mutt, y no tengo planes de cambiar pronto... además creo que

Compilar el Kernel

1998-10-06 Thread Jose Juan Sanchez Dasi
¡Hola!, primero he advertiros que soy un usuario convertido en administrador de Linux y que no he instalado el sistema con el que trabajo. EL PROBLEMA: He de cambiar una macro definida en un fichero '.h' de /usr/include y me han comentado que he de recompilar el kernel. En el How-To del

Re: Dudas sobre cola de Sendmail

1998-10-06 Thread Humberto . Morell
Pero me encuentro con un problema. Donde se encuentran los ficheros mensajes que aun el MTA no ha distribuido?. Gracias de todas formas, por si es de interes estan en /var/spool/mqueue Sludos Humberto Morell (Sysadm infocex)

Amistosidad en Debian

1998-10-06 Thread Antonio Castro
Bueno ante todo agradecer los comentarios recibidos sobre la actualización a hamm. Quiero expresar desde aqui que Debian con detalles como el de la actualización de versión desde versiones anteriores a la 2.0 parece evolucionar desde una distribución poco amigable a una distribución casi nada

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-10-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:11:12PM +0100, Nuno Carvalho wrote: Put this: /usr/local/bin/xradiotrack on your ~/.xsession file. Like this: /usr/local/bin/xradiotrack exec wmaker Marcelo

Re: some WindowMaker questions ...

1998-10-06 Thread stephen . p . ryan
On 5 Oct, Nuno Carvalho wrote: On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Make an ~/.xsession file and put exec wmaker on it. Then chmod +x it. I just commented the line with xterm on Xsession global (/etc/X11/) and it worked ! :) The file is /etc/X11/WindowMaker/menu.hook, but

Re: moving / sda4 -- sdb1

1998-10-06 Thread shaul
Perhaps the /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Hard-Disk-Upgrade.gz could help ? greetings, I need to move debian from drive 1 to drive 2 ( just deep sixed NT ;0) ), what are the steps necessary. Thus far i have done a copy using mc ( skipping proc of course ), modified lilo, fstab. boots ok gets to

Re: cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread servis
*- Russ Cook wrote about cable modem | My local cable company is now offering high-speed cable modem service. | The following excerpt is from their web page QA section. I am running | Slink with IPV4 (I believe). | | from Cable web page | Can I use any TCP/IP stack with @Home? | At this time,

Re: PPP dial out fails at LCP ConfReq

1998-10-06 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
John Hasler wrote - Martin Bialasinski writes: What I mean is that you shouldn't send the \d. He isn't sending \d. To chat '\d' means pause one second. Some ISP's get confused if chat exits and lets pppd start sending packets before they finish authenticating. The pause gives them time to

Re: [EDI software]

1998-10-06 Thread Syed Huq
Peter, Did you mean EDA ?? What is EDI ?? Rathon. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all: Does anyone know of any EDI software which runs under Debian or Linux. Thanks Peter -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Modem won't dial

1998-10-06 Thread David Densmore
I found a way to fix the problem. The dial string in /etc/chatscripts/provider had brackets around the phone number like this: ATDT3416052 which worked ok with my old modem. I removed the brackets like this: ATDT3416052 and now it works. Can anyone tell me how to

Can't load library

1998-10-06 Thread Ken Archer
Trying to get Netscape 4.5b2 up and running on Debian 2.0, I get the error message that: Netscape: cannot load library libXpm.so.4 I have the same Netscape running fine on a Suse 5.2 partition with libXpm.so.4 installed in the same default directory (/usr/X11R6/lib). I have used Slackware, Red

Netscape can't load file

1998-10-06 Thread Ken Archer
Trying to get Netscape 4.5b2 up and running, but I get the following error message: Netscape: cannot load library libXpm.so.4 I have the same release of Netscape running in a Suse 5.2 partiion with libXpm.so.4 installed in the same default directory (/usr/X11R6/lib). I am new to Debian and

Memory usage

1998-10-06 Thread Pat O'Brien
If I have 192Mb of ram, how do I indicate to the kernel that I have it. pat

How do I set up my linux computer as a proxy?

1998-10-06 Thread Collin Rose
How do I set up my linux computer as a proxy to serve internet to other systems on my network? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Looking for GNUPLOT for Debian2.0

1998-10-06 Thread rathon
Hi, I am using Debian2.0 and looking for GNUPLOT. Can you help ? Rathon. Get free e-mail and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1

Re: Looking for GNUPLOT for Debian2.0

1998-10-06 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
rathon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am using Debian2.0 and looking for GNUPLOT. Can you help ? It's in the main/binary-i386/math section of hamm, package name is gnuplot_3.5beta6.340-5.deb Gary

Above 64Mb

1998-10-06 Thread Frederic Breitwieser
I never even thought to check -- glad I saw your (and someone else's) post! How does one know, however, whether or not the top of memory is I was wondering if anyone knew offhand how much memory Linux CAN see, with the appropriate setting in lilo.conf etc. THe new box I'm making has 1024MB in

Re[2]: Modem won't dial

1998-10-06 Thread zuwi
David Densmore at 9:00:07 wrote: Can anyone tell me how to control the modems volume? It is MUCH louder than my old one. Also, where are the modem init strings stored for pon? Where can I get a list of all the modem AT commands? I personally use ATZL0, L0 is used to shut down the volume.

Re: Debian secretary wont work with pon.

1998-10-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: Jens Ritter wrote: Phillip Neumann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please check the mail archive. As far as I read, you have to restart xringd, so it gets the back to the modem. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] KeyID:

RE: Above 64Mb

1998-10-06 Thread Shaleh
The 2.1 series can see above 64mb w/o lilo's help. I believe the range now goes to 2gb or so.

TALK: socket error

1998-10-06 Thread stick
Howdy all! Does anyone know what this error is telling me? [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99). Press a ny key...] I'm running netstd version 3.07-2 on the system that's having the problems. Most of the other systems I manage are on netstd_3.07-1...if that

Re: nn local news spool

1998-10-06 Thread mwb
Set NNTPSERVER=localhost in your environment. It took me months to figure this out. I do NOT find this documented anywhere. I have my default server set up to localhost, so this wasn't necessary for me. However, I was emailed a message that told me how to fix the problem. Since

Where is Bo?

1998-10-06 Thread Nathan O. Siemers
I need bo (debian 1.3) binaries of grep and ar to try and revive an old system before I can upgrade to hamm. Grep and ar have been lost :( I've seen the address of the bo site somewhere, but I just spent an hour looking through the web site with no success. Thank you. nathan -- Nathan O.

Network Card probs

1998-10-06 Thread Christopher J. Stevenson
Now X works well... now I need help on My network card. It says on the cover that it's compatible w/ Linux... I'm just wondering how compatible. I have a EtherFast 10/100 LAN Card (PCI interface, Plug-and-Pray) However, there's not Linux drivers on the floppies (2 of them...) What

Re: Where is Bo?

1998-10-06 Thread David B. Teague
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Nathan O. Siemers wrote: I need bo (debian 1.3) binaries of grep and ar to try and revive an old system before I can upgrade to hamm. Grep and ar have been lost [...] Nathan: Here is a list of archive sites that was posted a couple of months ago. Maybe George Bonser has

Re: cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread Packy Anderson
Russ Cook writes: from Cable web page Can I use any TCP/IP stack with @Home? At this time, @Home supports the following: Windows 95, NT workstations, and MacOS 7.5.3 with open Transport v. 1.1 or greater TCP/IP stacks. from Cable web page Does anyone think I would have an insurmountable

IP Masq

1998-10-06 Thread Collin Rose
Is there a way to setup IP Masqing with out recompiling the kernel? A module maybe (where)?

Netscape and libXt.so.6

1998-10-06 Thread Michael Dahlberg
Could anyone help me out with this problem? I installed Netscape Navigator 4.06 (base install, not Communicator) on Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) in /usr/local/netscape according to Netscape's installation instructions. I try to run the executable but I get the message: /usr/local/netscape/netscape

Re: Netscape and libXt.so.6

1998-10-06 Thread aqy6633
I installed Netscape Navigator 4.06 (base install, not Communicator) on Debian 2.0 (kernel 2.0.34) in /usr/local/netscape according to Netscape's installation instructions. I try to run the executable but I get the message: /usr/local/netscape/netscape : can not load libXt.so.6. The library

Re: Netscape and libXt.so.6

1998-10-06 Thread dokdokLUG
to have netscape 4 running u need to have the libraries as mentioned in http://cgi.debian.org/www-master/debian.org/Packages/stable/web/netscape4.html or ...let me just mention it, the ff. libs along with their corresponding depndecies : motifnls in section X11 ldso in section base ilbc5 in

Re: xdm not working

1998-10-06 Thread Mike Orr
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:14:09PM +0100, G. Kapetanios wrote: Following an earlier email concerning failure to look up a host adress which also prevented xdm from running I have included my ISP nameserver address in /etc/resolv.conf. Now xdm starts, I log in and the system waits before

Re: Can't load library

1998-10-06 Thread Christopher Barry
That's because Suse is using libc5 and Debian is using the newer glibc. Install Netscape using the Debian installer and grab the older libraries from section oldlibs, or download the glibc version of Netscape from their ftp. Christopher Ken Archer wrote: Trying to get Netscape 4.5b2 up and

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Fri, 2 Oct 1998, Christopher D. Judd wrote: Make sure the sixth field in your /etc/fstab is set to 0(zero) or empty for removable media. From 'man 5 fstab' [...] Sure enough, that fixed it. Odd that this problem only showed up when I upgraded to Hamm, though. Thanks for the tip.

Re: Scanners - recommandations?

1998-10-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On 2 Oct 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Hi, John == John Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John I'm planning to buy a scanner. What type will work well with Linux? You should look into the SANE project. Specifically, the backends (which are scanner specific) are detailed in

Re: lilo and hdc

1998-10-06 Thread LUK ShunTim
M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, A friend of mine has a (SUSE) install on hdc, but wants lilo (or similar) to go on hda (which is a dos/w95 partition)? is there a howto/etc for this sort of thing? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien

DontZap zaps...(X problem)

1998-10-06 Thread Akop Pogosian
I wonder if there is a way to prevent X server from being killed by the CTRL-ALT-backspace keystroke. I know that putting DontZap in XF86Config would do that on redhat. The Debian docs say the same thing. However, this DontZap method does not work here, I am using Debian 2.0. Any one got ideas ?

Re: kde problem and wmanager question

1998-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Jan Krupa wrote: What happens ? After some time when I use kde (it works after loading) I just cannot start any program. I mean when choose something from the the kde or debian menu. It sounds like kfm is dying. I don't know why it

Re: HELP! how does Debian allocate scsi drives?

1998-10-06 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, Chris Evans wrote: I can't get into the machine to check documentation and I can't see enough detail in Running Linux to know if this is the case and, if so, how to fix it. However, that does read as if linux scans through the scsi devices allocating /dev/sda /dev/sdb

Re: cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread Chris Hoover
Russ, You should have no problem using the @home modem with linux. I'm using it right now, and it really flies. The only thing I have left to do is to set up dhcp, but for the time being, I'm using the static ip they gave me. chris Russ Cook wrote: My local cable company is now offering

Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-06 Thread David Karlin
Hello, I'm running a hamm system and mostly login through a telnet window on my win95 machine (I have only one monitor as of yet). When I run vi in the telnet window, I get some strange behavior. Just about no matter which key I press, the screen blanks, and then vi begins to save a copy of the

Re: OFF TOPIC - UK TV PROGRAM ABOUT LINUX???

1998-10-06 Thread Ian Stuart
Ian Stuart wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Finnish programmer Linux Torvalds, whose software could threaten Bill Gates's Microsoft empire The program is one of these programs that does 5-minute bites at a number of topics, with Linus as one of the topics. The program actually did a

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-06 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:27:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am using a program called safedelete that you alias to rm. It is not This sounds like a really bad idea (aliasing it to rm). Once you get used to having it, you become more careless with the rm command; suddenly you're using

Re: OFF TOPIC - UK TV PROGRAM ABOUT LINUX???

1998-10-06 Thread P J Barbera
Hey, do you want a Dressman or a Killer ?? :) Pete Ian Stuart wrote: Ian Stuart wrote: My only downer comment would be to Linus: White socks and sandles? Ugh! Please! -- Ian Stuart Computing Services The University of Edinburgh -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re: What causes single user boot?

1998-10-06 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, Raymond A. Ingles wrote: Sincerely, Ray Ingles (248)377-7735 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free Stereogram! Try to make the two Os in the next row look like three: OO n n n n n n n n n n

Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-06 Thread LUK ShunTim
Hi, When I wanted to bookmark a page by dragging the location icon into the bookmark file, it just wouldn't work. I'm using hamm, kernel 2.0.34, KDE and Netscape 4.5bPR1. Have I missed to install anything? Regards, ST --

Setting terminal type for telnet sessions only

1998-10-06 Thread David Karlin
Hello, Thanks to a suggestion by Michael Stone, I tried TERM=vt100 from the command line, and vi now seems to work properly in a telnet window. Very nice. Thank you Michael. How can I set my login script to set TERM=vt100 *only* for telnet sessions, and not for console (or other) logins? As I

Re: 2 ether, problems routing

1998-10-06 Thread Pere Camps
Toby, Then use ipfwadm to forward any packets from your LAN to the Net. A good help is the HOWTO docs on Network and Firewalls. I'm trying to make a simple setup with ipfwadm: just to move all the packets from one eth to the other, but I've yet to succeed. I'll keep trying

Re: Memory usage

1998-10-06 Thread Dirk Bonne
Pat O'Brien wrote: If I have 192Mb of ram, how do I indicate to the kernel that I have it. Write append=mem=192m in lilo.conf and run lilo again. The kernel must be said explicitly how much memory you have if you go above 64M. Dirk

Re: 2 ether, problems routing

1998-10-06 Thread Pere Camps
Nils, It is not the computer that needs an IP address, every single network interface on the computer will need a unique IP address (except if you have point-to-point interfaces, but that doesn't apply in your situation) First question: can I make an eth behave as a point-to-point if

Kai's mail setup seriously hosed

1998-10-06 Thread Kai Grossjohann
I have seriously hosed my mail setup in the past few days and might have deleted mail you sent between October 1st and a few minutes ago. Please accept my apologies for this mishap; I am truly sorry about this. Could you resend your message, please? If you haven't sent me a message since October

Re: TALK: socket error

1998-10-06 Thread Robert Ramiega
On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:33:24PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy all! Does anyone know what this error is telling me? [Couldn't bind to control socket : Cannot assign requested address (99). Press a ny key...] I'm running netstd version 3.07-2 on the system that's having the

URGENT!!! ROOT PARTITION DELETED

1998-10-06 Thread G. Kapetanios
Hi all, I was having problems with the network so I deided to use the rescue disk to configure my machine with no network. By mistake (big mistake !!!) I chose to initialise the root partition rather than mount a previously initialised partition. The hard disk did not work a lot but my root

Re: URGENT!!! ROOT PARTITION DELETED

1998-10-06 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hi: To my knowledge there is no way to recover the root. You could however try to re-activate that partition and see what happens. I doubt it will work because mkfs resets the inode tables. When you re-activate/create that partition again everything on it is reset. So, you have to re-install the

Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-06 Thread H C Pumphrey
Hi debian users and SANE people: This is tangential to, but not unconnected with the recent request on debian-user for advice about what scanner to get. When I bought my Debian system recently I got an ARTEC AT12 scanner because (a) it was on the SANE supporeted list (b) it is alledgedly a very

Re: Can't drag and drop in Netscape

1998-10-06 Thread Blazej Sawionek
LUK ShunTim wrote: KDE and Netscape 4.5bPR1. Sorry I don't uderstand what you are trying to do, but 4.5bPR2 is already available - maybe that can help you? Blazej

Installation problem

1998-10-06 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!! I just got Debian 2.0 and tried to install in my two computers. One is a 386 with 20 MB of RAM - the installation was successful. The other one is a Pentium MMX 200 with 64 MB of RAM - here the installation script (install/boot.bat) stopped when detecting hard disks. This is the output

Re: Scanners - SCSI card for ARTEC AT12

1998-10-06 Thread Helge Hafting
In [EMAIL PROTECTED], on 10/06/98 at 12:24 PM, H C Pumphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: [...] No-one mentions the 3181x / 3151x so I can't tell from this what to do about my card. If anyone can tell me what to do or point me at the right documentation, I'd be grateful. If it is neither on the

debian image mirror at fw-athene.wiwi.uni-karlsruhe.de removed

1998-10-06 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
we ran out of disk space, don´t expect new hardware and need the disk space for the day to day stuff. sorry. maybe someone else can provide a rsync access to debian cd images in europe ? andreas

Re: Network Card probs

1998-10-06 Thread Jeff Miller
Go to their web page and look for instructions on your specific card Christopher J. Stevenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/5/98 11:06:25 PM Now X works well... now I need help on My network card. It says on the cover that it's compatible w/ Linux... I'm just wondering how compatible. I have a

cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread Kenneth Scharf
You have comcast right? I am also on comcast, but they just took over jones intercable and have yet to 'upgrade their system' sometime next year before they will offer us the service. Anyway I looked on the comcast web site and found out some details on the service. There was a line that

Re: Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-06 Thread Jeff Miller
I recently took a class on Unix and we used Win95 machines to Telnet into our server and vi acted weird. The instructor acknowledged this and said that there was nothing we could do. I would suggest using a Windoze X Client software in place of Telnet. We use Exceed and it works well. There

Re: Where is Bo?

1998-10-06 Thread servis
*- Nathan O. Siemers wrote about Where is Bo? | | I need bo (debian 1.3) binaries of grep and ar to try and revive an | old system before I can upgrade to hamm. Grep and ar have been lost | :( | | I've seen the address of the bo site somewhere, but I just spent an | hour looking through the web

Re: Safe rm available?

1998-10-06 Thread servis
*- Hamish Moffatt wrote about Re: Safe rm available? | On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 02:27:59PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I am using a program called safedelete that you alias to rm. It is not | | This sounds like a really bad idea (aliasing it to rm). Once you get used | to having it, you

Re: Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-06 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 01:46:50AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: Hello, I'm running a hamm system and mostly login through a telnet window on my win95 machine (I have only one monitor as of yet). When I run vi in the telnet window, I get some strange behavior. Just about no matter which key I

Re: Ax25-utils crash , Help me !

1998-10-06 Thread Karl F. Larsen
Hi Tony, just a good guess based on the fact that ALL of Linux crashes. It sounds very much like a Hardware failure. As a rule software will not crash Linux. Now the z8530 hardware is capable of bringing down Linux if it fails. So suggest you look at the driver software first and then the

about update command

1998-10-06 Thread Sakai Atsushi
I have a question about update command. The document The Linux Kernel v0.8-2 page 115 # update -d is written but I cannot found the command w/ -d option. I want to see the buffer parameter like bdflush version 1.4 0:60 Max fraction of LRU list to examine for dirty blocks .

Re: DontZap zaps...(X problem)

1998-10-06 Thread Colin Telmer
On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Akop Pogosian wrote: I wonder if there is a way to prevent X server from being killed by the CTRL-ALT-backspace keystroke. I know that putting DontZap in XF86Config would do that on redhat. The Debian docs say the same thing. However, this DontZap method does not work

Graphics card Matrox Productiva AGP

1998-10-06 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
Hi, my new PC has a Matrox Productiva AGP graphics card, and I'm installing Debian on it. There doesn't seem to be a xserver in hamm or slink by now -- or is anybody running X-win on such a beast? I know that SuSe has developped a special server for the Productiva, but how to install this one

Re: cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread Steve Rothanburg
It really depends on what setup they are using for the service. Here in Baltimore, we have the Motorola modems that uses the cable for the back channel, but I have heard that in some markets they are using a version that requires a separate phone line for the back channel. If they have the

help with fonts in X ?

1998-10-06 Thread Adam Lazur
I'm failing to see how I can use a particular font in certain X applications. I installed rasterman's nexus font (available from enlightenment.org or somewhere similar) as a fixed width font and use it in my rxvts (rxvt -fn nexus) and it works fine. However, I'd like to use it in The Gimp, maybe

Re: cable modem

1998-10-06 Thread pussy
My local cable company is now offering high-speed cable modem service. The following excerpt is from their web page QA section. I am running Slink with IPV4 (I believe). from Cable web page Can I use any TCP/IP stack with @Home? At this time, @Home supports the following: Windows 95, NT

Re: Fwd: Re: [lug] recompiling kernel and not loosing sound support

1998-10-06 Thread D'jinnie
I had something of the same problem - turned out that my SB-compatible card is on IRQ 5 instead of default 7, I change the setting in /usr/src/linux/drivers/sound/Config.in and all worked well. It could be something similar, maybe IRQ or DMA conflict... good luck --- Just call me a sugar vampire

slib installation failed

1998-10-06 Thread Paolo M. Pumilia
Hi all, I cannot install slib on my debian machine. The reason seems obscure to me. Here is the log from dpkg: Preparing to replace slib 2c0-3 (using slib_2c0-3.deb) ... Unpacking replacement slib ... Setting up slib (2c0-3) ... guile: Could not find slib/require.scm in

KDE and qt

1998-10-06 Thread mbanck
Hello, I am trying to install KDE 1.0 (BTW, I haven't found it in Hamm, is that true?). The problem is the qt-library. I got two choices to install it but both don't work: 1. compiling the sources. I am using linux-g++-shared as config and get this output: #make cd src/moc; make make[1]:

Re: [EDI software]

1998-10-06 Thread Greg Vence
EDI = Electronic Data Interchange. It is a layer in Electronic Commerce. However, I haven't seen it on Linux, but haven't really looked either. Syed Huq wrote: Peter, Did you mean EDA ?? What is EDI ?? -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time)

Re: Problem using vi in telnet session

1998-10-06 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 01:46:50AM -0700, David Karlin wrote: I'm running a hamm system and mostly login through a telnet window on my win95 machine (I have only one monitor as of yet). When I run vi in the telnet window, I get some strange behavior. Just about no matter which key I press,

Re: need pop3 mail client that leaves mail on server

1998-10-06 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
Richard E. Hawkins Esq. writes: I have managed to get my low-speed ppp connection (about 6k max) running. Congratulatons! What did it take? just about everything blocked :) There is physical hardware flow control, for bit 7 both hi lo, and I don't know what others are screwy. Plus I'm

Re: ISDN: HOW TO start?

1998-10-06 Thread Paul Slootman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: I have a new Debian 2.0 distribution running well. I have recompiled the kernel with PCMCIA and ISDN support, bought an AVM Fritz! PCMCIA card, I don't think that the AVM Fritz! PCMCIA card is supported. Have you managed to get the kernel (i.e. the hisax

Sound Blaster

1998-10-06 Thread Jeff Miller
I am running the latest Debian release. My CD-ROM is connected to my Sound Blaster 16 and was detected with no problem. I don't have sound, though, and I am not sure what to do about it. Do I really have to recompile the Kernel to support my sound card? Or, can I configure it as a module.

Re: moving / sda4 -- sdb1

1998-10-06 Thread Paul Slootman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: On Sun, 4 Oct 1998, John Leget wrote: : greetings, : : I need to move debian from drive 1 to drive 2 ( just deep sixed NT ;0) : ), what are the steps necessary. login as root mke2fs /dev/sdb1 mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt cd / find . -xdev | cpio -padm /mnt

Re: Need help with Internet connection ISDN.

1998-10-06 Thread Paul Slootman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: After hours of reading howto's and scratching my head I finally got Debian to recognise my Teles 16.3 ISDN-card. It works, and I can call myself between two TTY's with minicom. Talking to myself is quite boring in the long run, and I just can't figure out

Re: Why I have probelm starting KDE??

1998-10-06 Thread Chan Min Wai
Now I can run the Kde with startx but Now I cannot boot Linux... Wah ...Sad case Geoffrey L. Brimhall wrote: When I installed kde, all I had to get it working correctly was log in as root and execute: ldconfig Then everthing worked correctly On 04-Oct-98 Chan Min Wai wrote:

Re: HELP! how does Debian allocate scsi drives?

1998-10-06 Thread Paul Slootman
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HELP! how does Debian allocate scsi drives? Newsgroups: linux.debian.user In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Organization: Albert Heijn Winkelautomatisering Cc: Bcc: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Now when I reboot the scsi controller sees the scsi

Re: KDE and qt

1998-10-06 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hello, I am trying to install KDE 1.0 (BTW, I haven't found it in Hamm, is that t= rue?). The problem is the qt-library. I got two choices to install it but both do= n't work: 1. compiling the sources. 2. using the qt-rh5.1-binaries. 3. Install the debian packages. They are in the

Re: KDE and qt

1998-10-06 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, mbanck wrote: 2. using the qt-rh5.1-binaries. seconds I tried to use the binaries for redhat 5.1 with alien. Unfortunately, alien makes a 'qt'-Package instead of a 'qt1g'-Package required by KDE. Is there a way to rename packages I have

Fax Software

1998-10-06 Thread David Frye
Can anyone tell me of a good fax software package for Linux. I see that they have an efax, hylafax, and mgetty-fax. Which of these is the easiest and most reliable to use?

RE: HELP! how does Debian allocate scsi drives?

1998-10-06 Thread Lewis, James M.
I didn't catch the beginning of this thread. Did anyone mention possible changes in scsi termination??? jim -- From: Paul Slootman[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 06, 1998 11:14 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: The recipient's address is unknown.

Gnome

1998-10-06 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all!! Is Gnome available to download in the Debian FTP site? I have been looking for it, nut did not found it. Thanks

Re: Gnome

1998-10-06 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Search in unstable section (slink directory). I have Gnome 0.30 installed and running in my machine. Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique On Tue, Oct 06, 1998 at 06:01:59PM +0200, Rodrigo Moya wrote: Hi all!! Is Gnome available to download in the Debian FTP

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

1998-10-06 Thread Chan Min Wai
Hai, you need to download netscape 4.0x from netscape server the put it in the /tmp dir (make a backup it will be delete after it reboot) now run dselect put in your CD (Contrib) in the cd rom the choose the access mode to cdrom then choose the path (forgeten I think 2 and 3 ) to the

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