Problemas con la creacion de discos de arranque en Debian

1998-11-09 Thread Aurora Sanchez Garrido
Hola a todos: He modificado el codigo de la utilidad dinstall que viene en la distribucion de Debian para crear un diskette de arranque que se ajuste a lo que yo quiero. Lo que he hecho ha sido simplemente introducir parametros de configuracion para que le proceso

Re: Grabador HP 7200 puerto paralelo

1998-11-09 Thread Ramiro Alba Queipo
Santiago Vila wrote: On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Ramiro Alba Queipo wrote: Estoy intentado instalar los drivers de paride para tener acceso a un grabador de puerto paralelo HP 7200 compilando el kernel 2.0.35 [...] [...] Si por el contrario lo incluyo en el kernel, al mirar la salida de

Monitor Psicodélico

1998-11-09 Thread Ramiro Alba Queipo
Hola a todos: Tengo un monitor de 14 tiradillo y el viernes se magnetizó y por los bordes del display se le cambian los colores a modo de arcoiris. En otros monitores hay un desmagnetizador (degauss) y al pulsarlo, el monitor vuelve a su estado de colores normal, pero este no lo lleva. ¿Hay

Re: Monitor Psicodélico

1998-11-09 Thread Xavier Calbet
La solucion a este problema la descubri hace poco, aunque confieso que aun no la he probado: Ponle delante un transformador conectado a la red. Necesitas un campo magnetico variable, de ahi la necesidad del transformador. Un iman tambien valdria, pero los resultados parecen no ser tan buenos

Re: Pregunta!!!

1998-11-09 Thread Xavier Calbet
En la ultima version de Debian viene el Serial-programming HOWTO (en /usr/doc/HOWTO). A mi tambien me hace falta, pero aun no lo he leido :) Respecto a Parrallel port me habian comentado que tambien habia un HOWTO de como programarlo pero no lo veo. Si encuentras mas informacion sobre esto

Re: Problemas con la creacion de discos de arranque en Debian

1998-11-09 Thread Antonio Castro
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Aurora Sanchez Garrido wrote: Hola a todos: He modificado el codigo de la utilidad dinstall que viene en la distribucion de Debian para crear un diskette de arranque que se ajuste a lo que yo quiero. Lo que he hecho ha sido simplemente

RE: Monitor Psicodélico

1998-11-09 Thread A. Manchado
En los televisores se utiliza una bobina conectada a la red y se hace de manera que el flujo magnético decrece en solamente unos ciclos de red. Se puede hacer algo parecido con un transformador también conectado a la red (a ser posible con mucho flujo disperso) tal como sugiere X. Calbet. Hay que

Re: Smail configurationg (wrong from)

1998-11-09 Thread Bobby Donnell
have you tried the 'set hostname' option in your ~/.muttrc or global muttrc? i believe it gets the domain name from your /etc/resolv.conf under domain. On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 12:34:49AM +0200, shaul wrote: Hi Sahul, I tried your sugestion but it fails to send any e-mail.

Re: First-time Linux setup - questions

1998-11-09 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
Someone pointed out correctly that I had to run ldconfig. What I figured out for myself was that I had to add /usr/openwin/lib to the conf file first. However, now I have a new problem: olvwm: cannot connect to (NULL DISPLAY) Now what? In UNIX, I would just type setenv DISPLAY

problem using apt method

1998-11-09 Thread Nicolas brunel
Hello, What on earth my computer is trying to explain me ? I've got a debian hamm distrib running on a p 166. Get ftp://ftp.info.iut-tlse3.fr: stable/contrib Packages Get ftp://ftp.lip6.fr: stable/contrib Packages Get ftp://ftp.u-bordeaux.fr: stable/contrib Packages Get

Smail config problems....

1998-11-09 Thread Jerry E. McGoveran
When I try to send mail from one user to another on my local machine, the mail fails to get to the destination and does not return an error message to the originator of the mail. When I checked /var/spool/smail/error I find that smail can't identify the users. I've tried several forms of

linux partition

1998-11-09 Thread Don Humphry
I have a Pentium 75 using Win 98 with 2 hard drives. All of my files are on the C: drive. I have a D: drive with 341 mb capacity and no files. I am attempting to install debian linux on the D: drive using cfdisk, but cannot figure how to set up the linux partitions on it, namely the amount of

Re: Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

1998-11-09 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Steve Lamb wrote: ... Also, if we stick it into open source, as we should, M$ *still* has access to it to do as they please. Well, theoretically they don't. If they use GPL code, they have to keep it GPL. Personally, I'd suggest doing the other things mentioned in the memo, like the

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-09 Thread Stefan Nobis
Dave McFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If MS is successful at 'embracing and extending' Java, then HTML, TCP/IP and the OSS world will soon feel the suffocating arms of MS wrapped around them. Hey, don't forget some people even managed to decode SMB for NT in the SAMBA project. If MS really

bellsouth.net

1998-11-09 Thread Chris Hoover
Does anyone know what bellsouth.net is using for connect strings? I tried to connect with the standard pppconfig stuff, but it is exiting out right after dialing the number. The ppp.log file has a line with alarm followed by the line(s) stating that it is exiting. Any ideas on what to do next?

Re: ipchains?

1998-11-09 Thread Chris Frost
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can get the source (or glibc binaries) from http://www.adelaide.net.au/~rustcorp/ipfwchains/ipfwchains.html. This should be in linux/Documentation/Changes, I'll check to make sure it's still in there. Chris - Visit Me At

debgrep

1998-11-09 Thread Jesse Montrose
I'm using this to quickly search package names, thought I'd post it on the chance that someone else would find it useful, or that someone has a better method: alias debgrep 'egrep -i Package:.*\!* /var/lib/dpkg/available'

Linux program = dos debug ?

1998-11-09 Thread wtopa
I was asked a question today that I am not able to find the answer for. What is the linux equivilent of the dos debug program? I looked tru the package files and all I can find are program debuggers. Could someone point out what I am missing, please. Thanks Wayne -- Our OS who art in

Re: DNS woes

1998-11-09 Thread Paul Miller
Gregory Dickinson wrote: On a related note, I have something that is puzzling me regarding said DNS server. I have the IP address of the DNS in the /etc/resolv.conf files of two linux boxes (one Debian, the other Red Hat) that are behind the firewall. I can resolve host names using the

test again

1998-11-09 Thread Tung-Han Hsieh
Sorry, this is a test again. Please ignore this message.

RE: linux partition

1998-11-09 Thread William Kendrick
Hi Don, With 341mb to work with, you might want to go with a 24-32mb swap partition and leave the rest as one Linux partition. That way, you won't be wasting space in a partition that could've been smaller if you'd only known. It will also simplify installation. On your first run through dselect,

apm - questions

1998-11-09 Thread Bradley Fehr
I just installed debian 2 on a laptop and I have the apm -s command working to suspend the system but, 1. I want apm -s to work for users other than root. Currently it says apm: Operation not permitted Any ideas? 2. When it resumes, I have to restart the pcmcia network card using:

RE: slightly odd behaviour of X for a newbie and a request for h

1998-11-09 Thread Shaleh
Slink's X is not in an extremely usable state. Unless you feel like being a guinea pig, downgrade to hamm's version. On 08-Nov-98 Mikael Suomela wrote: I did an apt-get dist-upgrade yesterday and slink is great! Except for the fact that it did some wierd things for my X. First off I

RE: search engines in html

1998-11-09 Thread Shaleh
Try looking into htdig, it is in the web section. On 08-Nov-98 richard wrote: How do I build a seach engine for web pages? Where should I look for information? I want to construct something similar to the microsoft online support search engine. (pet project 1) Any suggestions?

Netscape 4.5 and locale C not supported

1998-11-09 Thread Will Lowe
I downloaded and installed (with the netscape4 installer package) Navigator standalone 4.5 today. Running it gives: netscape: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly? help? Will

RE: standardising X

1998-11-09 Thread Shaleh
The joy (and some people's grief) of X is that it allows for anything to look how it likes. The only real way to make it look standardized is to use apps that all use the same toolkit. Like pure GTk/GNOME -- which was the point of GNOME in the first place. The other thing you can do is read the

Re: Micro$oft decommoditizing things -- a solution?

1998-11-09 Thread Steve Lamb
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 10:59:45PM +, Jiri Baum wrote: Also, if we stick it into open source, as we should, M$ *still* has access to it to do as they please. Well, theoretically they don't. If they use GPL code, they have to keep it GPL. In theory. In practice it is hard to prove

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Re: Menu access to /usr/doc

1998-11-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
Helmut Metzdorf hat gesagt: // Helmut Metzdorf wrote: Hi, considering myself still a novice to linux i spend lots of time reading documentation. first i complained about most of it beeing compressed text but soon i found a solution (zcat | xless). A even better solution is to setup less to

Help, with Debian 2.0 install from CD-ROM not part of HDD card

1998-11-09 Thread Craig M. Kimmer
Hello, I am having problems with Debian 2.0 to install the the important, extra, and/ or packages, which include the kernal source and patches. I have got a operating system, but it does not recongize the CDROM drive, thus I can not add or upgrade any program packages to the system. I

off-topic /proc/cpuinfo

1998-11-09 Thread Andrew Philip Bell
Way off-topic, but I can't find any documentation on what all of the fields mean in /proc/cpuinfo. What is the model #? -- where is a listing of what these models are? What do all of the cpu flags mean? I did find the mini howto regarding bogomips, but that's it. Does any helpful Debian

Re: standardising X

1998-11-09 Thread Frank Barknecht
richard hat gesagt: // richard wrote: xman however has the scroll bar at the left hand side and buttons that are defined by dots. The scroll-bar can only be moved by repeated left and right mouse button clicking. which is pretty poor really. Though it won't help you dealing with the different

Re: bellsouth.net

1998-11-09 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, Try a simple string like ATF1, that usually works. Mike Chris Hoover wrote: Does anyone know what bellsouth.net is using for connect strings? I tried to connect with the standard pppconfig stuff, but it is exiting out right after dialing the number. The ppp.log file has a line with

Shell script not found!

1998-11-09 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all! I am trying to compile last sources from GNOME CVS and am getting the following error: $ cd glib $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr bash: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory There is a autogen.sh file with mode -rwxr-xr-x and I am trying to run it as root. I've had this

deb for ssh v2.x

1998-11-09 Thread Pere Camps
Hi! Is there any .deb available for ssh v2.x? I searched for it in ftpsearch but I didn't find anything. TIA! Salutacions, Pere __oUltima Ratio Regum 2:343/108.91 - _`\;_mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key available

Re: standardising X

1998-11-09 Thread Leandro GFC Dutra
Frank Barknecht wrote: You can move xman's scrollbar with the middle mouse button if you have one. You can always emulate the middle button clicking the right and left ones together... -- Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs Brasil Ltda

Re: [Off Topic] An EXCELLENT Microsoft Confidential document on

1998-11-09 Thread Leandro GFC Dutra
Stefan Nobis wrote: Dave McFadden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If MS is successful at 'embracing and extending' Java, then HTML, TCP/IP and the OSS world will soon feel the suffocating arms of MS wrapped around them. How does HTML and TCP/IP depends on Java? Java will only be

Re: Network-card unoprational

1998-11-09 Thread cg:Christoph Gaitzsch
Stephan Engelke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi everyone, after installing Debian 2.0 on my system I am facing the following problem: whenever I use a 2.1.x-Kernel the network-card driver module for my 3Com 3c509B (ISA, irq=15, iobase=0x210) will not load. The driver error message is a

Re: Writing CD from W95

1998-11-09 Thread Hubert-jan Schaminee
-- Van: Leonard Ong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: Hubert-jan Schaminee [EMAIL PROTECTED] Onderwerp: Re: Writing CD from W95 Datum: zondag 8 november 1998 18:37 I am using Phillips 2600 ( is it old stuff ? ). I want to ask the wayout of following condition : Say I download linux

Re: install-disks w/aic7xxx (Adaptec) support

1998-11-09 Thread Gregory T. Norris
That would probably suffice, then - at least once slink becomes stable... I'm afraid I don't know how difficult (or trivial) it would be to use the slink images for installing hamm. In any event, when I first put those images together I don't think that the versions in slink were yet available.

Re: Shell script not found!

1998-11-09 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Rodrigo Moya wrote: Hi all! I am trying to compile last sources from GNOME CVS and am getting the following error: $ cd glib $ ./autogen.sh --prefix=/usr bash: ./autogen.sh: No such file or directory There is a autogen.sh file with mode -rwxr-xr-x and

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

1998-11-09 Thread Polacco Fabrizio \(NTC/He\)
From: Wojciech Zabolotny I thought, that the main goal of GPL license is to give a warranty that the source of the software and derived works will be ALWAYS freely available. I can't see such warranty in the libdb2 license :-(. I hope I'm wrong. You cannot see such warranty even in the

Expect sciptr simple doubt.

1998-11-09 Thread Daniel Doro Ferrante
Hi All. I have the following script to correct the delete and backspace keys under pico/pine: -Begin--- #!/etc/alternatives/expect eval spawn -noecho $argv interact { \177 {send \008} \033\[3~ {send \004} } # Now # picofix pico # should work (then

Installing Debian 2.0 with ISDN-Support

1998-11-09 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi, I have a Pentium 100 with 64 MB 1GB SCSI-Disk AVM-Fritz-Card(ISDN) Matrox - Mystique Wangtek-Streamer CD-ROM Novell NE 2000 compatible card and will install Debian 2.0 on this box. I plan to use this box in ethernet and configure it in the way that my second box(debian 2.0 also running on

Win95/Linux network problem

1998-11-09 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Hi all! I've got a Win95 machine and a linux machine connected via ethernet cards (Realtek in both) but cannot 'ping' from one to another. This is the configuration I've got: Windows-hostname: windows.cyllan.com IP address: 192.168.1.2 Subnet mask:

Re: Adaptec Newbie Problem

1998-11-09 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Yo must specify 'linux aha=.' not just aha=

Re: Alt Key no longer functions

1998-11-09 Thread Brian White
Just as a follow-up... If I put back my original /etc/X11/Xmodmap file (which has settings to make keyboards with the Windows keys work), then emacs recognizes the Alt keys (emacs wants the Meta keysym). Tcsh still doesn't recognize it properly, though... Alt-Backspace prints a garbage

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-11-09 Thread John
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! }- On Fri, Oct 16, 1998 at 03:23:44PM +0200, Lukas Eppler wrote: }- possible with a nice resolution with SVGATextMode. }- }- Most information I get is on 'how can I run X on my laptop', I look for }- information the other way 'round. }- }- Chips and

Re: Debian on Notebooks

1998-11-09 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 02:02:50PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [reformatted to 80 columns. *sigh*] The Acer notebook uses a very nice Neo magic video card. The only thing that is not nice about this video card is that it is not supported by Xfree 3.3.2. The Neo magic card is supported

Re: Help, with Debian 2.0 install from CD-ROM not part of HDD card

1998-11-09 Thread Michael B. Taylor
It looks like your cdrom is one of the early ones that runs off a propitary interface and reqires a special driver. Later cdroms run off the ide controller and use a common driver, regardless of brand. Later drives are recognized automatically by Debian, yours will require just a little more

Unable to open an initial console error

1998-11-09 Thread Daniel Mashao
I am trying to transplant a Debian Linux disk to another formerly Debian machine. Actually it is from a dual pentium to a single pentium machine. I have been experiencing a lot of crashes with the dual pentium machine so I now decided it is time I moved to a single pentium machine. The kernel

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

1998-11-09 Thread Leandro GFC Dutra
Polacco Fabrizio (NTC/He) wrote: From: Wojciech Zabolotny I thought, that the main goal of GPL license is to give a warranty that the source of the software and derived works will be ALWAYS freely available. snip You cannot see such warranty even in the GPL. The owner of the

Re: deb for ssh v2.x

1998-11-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Pere Camps wrote: : Hi! : : Is there any .deb available for ssh v2.x? No. : I searched for it in ftpsearch but I didn't find anything. It's not fully backwards compatible, it's non-free as you can get, and there's controversy as to whether it's legal at all

Re: using 2 graphics cards and screens

1998-11-09 Thread Gary L. Hennigan
Groumph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Hi, | | I have a computer with an ATI XPERT graphic card that works fine under | debian. I have also an old screen and a Cirus logic graphic card. I'd | like to know, is it possible to have a x server running on both cards, | on two different screens, in the

Re: Netscape 4.5 and locale C not supported

1998-11-09 Thread Douglas Guptill
I downloaded and installed (with the netscape4 installer package) Navigator standalone 4.5 today. Running it gives: netscape: locale `C' not supported. Perhaps the $XNLSPATH environment variable is not set correctly? help? In my .bash_profile, I have:

Re: bellsouth.net

1998-11-09 Thread Greg Vence
Chris Hoover wrote: Does anyone know what bellsouth.net is using for connect strings? I tried to connect with the standard pppconfig stuff, but it is exiting out right after dialing the number. The ppp.log file has a line with alarm followed by the line(s) stating that it is exiting.

USB Mouse

1998-11-09 Thread Jeff Miller
Hello, Can anyone tell me if my M$ USB Port mouse is going to work with Linux? If so, how straightforward is it? I am about to install Linux on my main() computer and want to be prepared as_much_as_possible. The reason I even ask is because I couldn't get it to work under the Boot to DOS

Debian and Win32?

1998-11-09 Thread Chang, FKK
Hello all, As I am forced to work with Dos 95 at work here - after a fruitless crusade to be at least *allowed* to use Debian/TeX, I stumbled upon the Cygnus win32 - GNU - thing. Nice, since I now can use Xfig, my favourite drawing program and bash, my favourite shell on this stupid 95

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

1998-11-09 Thread Richard L. Alhama
The point here is that even if theoretically possible, it can be very difficult to un-GPL a piece of code if you are not the sole author of it. If there are authors uncooperative with your will to change the licensing terms, or even too many authors, your program will be effectively

The evil Dymanic Drive Overlay..

1998-11-09 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings, Have an old machine I am looking to load up with Debian, problem is the original DOS drive had Ontrack's Dymanic Drive Overlay installed on it. I do not have the original Ontrack disk. Tried re-partioning the disk with Linux's fdisk, no luck, the evil overlay continues. Your

Re: Netscape 4.5 and locale C not supported

1998-11-09 Thread Douglas Guptill
I tried to export XNLSPATH and didn't work. I have the new X slink packages. Is this a problem? Have a nice day,Paulo Henrique I'm using hamm. I thought that X under slink was broken? On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 11:23:22AM -0400, Douglas Guptill wrote: I

Re: deb for ssh v2.x

1998-11-09 Thread Ben Collins
ssh 2.x is mostly alpha/prebeta right now as far as i can see, most of the options that are in 1.2.x are not implemented yet. last time i checked the libwrap support was ust a stub. also there is very little documentation. so i doubt it would be very usable in a distribution sense. On Mon, 9 Nov

Crontab

1998-11-09 Thread wtopa
I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things. I now have 2 questions, 1. How do I get _that_ /etc/crontab to run? 2. Where do I find docs on

Re: Crontab

1998-11-09 Thread Peter Iannarelli
Hello Dennis: I believe you are mistaken about crontab -e. I use it all the time. Firstly make sure the cron or anacron package is installed. The documentation is in /usr/doc. There is also a HOWTO directory you may want to check out. Peter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am slowly moving from

HELP! Rescue disks?

1998-11-09 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Hi, All looks like i got a problem - system (Deb 2.0) hangs running /etc/rc.boot scripts. Therefore i do have few questions: 1. How to create rescue disk(s)? 2. How to boot in order to avoid /etc/rc.boot running? Any help is greatly appreciated thank you OK

Changing netcard

1998-11-09 Thread Tomas Petersson
Hello, I have to change my netcard. The current card is a NE2000 compatible ISA, but the new card is PCI of (yet) unknown brand. What do I have to reconfigure? /Tomas Petersson

Re: Crontab

1998-11-09 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : : I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured : out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the : /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things. : I now have 2 questions, I think you

Re: Crontab

1998-11-09 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am slowly moving from Slackware to Debian. I have finally figured out that I can't use crontab -e in Debian. I have found the eh? crontab -e works fine here. /etc/crontab file and added items to this 'new' way of doing things. I now

Network Card

1998-11-09 Thread Ernesto Gonzalez
Hi, I have a Network Card PCI, HP 10/100TX J1371A, how can I configure my Debian Linux to use this card? Thanks in advance Ernesto Gonzalez

RE: USB Mouse

1998-11-09 Thread Shaleh
USB is not supported in Linux *YET*. It is under development. The new Macintoshes use USB as do new PC's, so expect the desire to go up. And as desire for code increases, so does its chance of existing. On 09-Nov-98 Jeff Miller wrote: Hello, Can anyone tell me if my M$ USB Port mouse is

Problems with IBM Home and Away 14.4 PCMCIA modem

1998-11-09 Thread Eric House
I have an HP OmniBook 800 running Debian 2.0 and an IBM Home and Away combo Ethernet/modem PCMCIA card. The Ethernet side of things works brilliantly, but the modem doesn't work at all. A borrowed 3com ethernet/modem combo card worked, so I think the PCMCIA side of things is set up correctly.

Setting up My Modem

1998-11-09 Thread Larry McKenny
I am unsure how to set up my modem under Debian. It is attached to COM 2 in DOS (WIN98 actually) and is a 56K V.90 and K56Flex dual-mode modem running on a P2 system. When installing, wvdial was unable to detect the modem, although it has run perfectly under Win. The modem is a Zoomtel

sparc slowdown bug?

1998-11-09 Thread Ben Collins
I have a SPARCStations 1 running debian (potato) with the 2.0.35 kernel from the distribution (recompiled, but with all the source patches). It is currently ust sitting at home connected to my pc via ethernet, it is only running about 7 process including kernel process - basically the bare

Help...

1998-11-09 Thread Michael B. Capozzi
Hi, After using RedHat for the past couple years, I've decided to broaden my horizons and use Debian. Actually, I got sick and tired of RedHat always shipping with ancient versions of programs that often caused other applications to not work. I was installing the distribution off

Debian Base Install - Stuck in beginning

1998-11-09 Thread David_Tuttle
Hello, I've installed Debian before with no problem, so I didn't expect trouble with the Base installation - just with XFree86 ;^). However, I'm stuck. Booted on resc1440.bin floppy, no boot parameters. It recognized my hard drive, Zip, and CDROM. No error messages that I can see. Chose Color, and

dconfig for GNUbies

1998-11-09 Thread Daniel R. Allen
Hi there, This is my first debian install. I am installing from the official debian CD set, version 1.3.1 (necessary for compatibility reasons). I have read the dselect man page, /usr/doc/debian/FAQ, the online debian installation guide (including the dselect first-time user's guide), the help

was: Network-card unoprational

1998-11-09 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi everyone, first of all thanks for all the suggestions - I've got my problem narrowed down to a PnP-problem. I have the following cards installed in my system: 3C509 - PnP disabled, irq 15, iobase 0x210 (both supported by the card) SB AWE 32 PnP (everything but the IDE-interface

VAIO notebooks

1998-11-09 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi there, is someone successfully running Debian on one of Sony's VAIO-series notebooks? I am thinking about getting one ... So long, Stephan -- Stephan Engelke[EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Coffee not found: Operator halted ***

Re: dselect for GNUbies

1998-11-09 Thread Daniel R. Allen
Hello again, I've found the answer to my second question, re: installing libc5 and libc6, browsing the 'upgrading' section of the 2.0 distribution. Boy does this process look messy! -Daniel

malloc and swap space

1998-11-09 Thread Michel Juillard
Why would malloc work with one program and use swap space and not work with an other (like egcs or emacs) and report memory exhausted while there is plenty of space on swap. (The amount to be allocated is quite small, 80KB, while there is 100MB of free swap space). Can it be caused by

Re: VAIO notebooks

1998-11-09 Thread Eric House
is someone successfully running Debian on one of Sony's VAIO-series notebooks? I am thinking about getting one ... I tried and failed about a year ago. Couldn't get X running. But if they use the NeoMagic chipset that problem should have been fixed, as the information necessary to write the

RE: malloc and swap space

1998-11-09 Thread Shaleh
Michel, malloc() allocates memory that is given it by the kernel. It does not care where it comes from. The kernel actually does the swap allocation, not malloc. On 09-Nov-98 Michel Juillard wrote: Why would malloc work with one program and use swap space and not work with an other (like

unable to restart X after bad crashes

1998-11-09 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
It's nice that it's only X that crashes, rather than linux, but I've discovered a family of crashes that require a reboot anyway. Typically these come from running RealPlayer. Particularly, in 16bpp rather than 8. THe problem is far worse when the realplayer server is badly loaded.

RE: malloc and swap space

1998-11-09 Thread Michel Juillard
shaleh writes Michel, malloc() allocates memory that is given it by the kernel. It does not care where it comes from. The kernel actually does the swap allocation, not malloc. OK, thanks, so let me reword it: what would cause the kernel (2.0.34) to refuse to allocate swap space and

Re: Netscape 4.5 and locale C not supported

1998-11-09 Thread Stuart Marshall
Hi, I found a temporary work around. There were some messages in the archives about the problem that indicated that /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale got wiped out by some X package. A dpkg -S /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/locale indicated that it should have been installed by xlib6g so I downloaded and

exim queue

1998-11-09 Thread Leon Breedt
hi i'm running exim on a dialup box, with some success. i can get local messages (via fetchmail) delivered fine. i'm not sure how to deliver message to remote hosts though. because i have a ppp net connection, i want to send my messages, and disconnect upon completing. how can i determine

Let's hunt the oldest bug!

1998-11-09 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
+-+ | You don't have the time or experience to become a Debian developer? | | Nevertheless you want to help? | | or | | You are

Re: exim queue

1998-11-09 Thread Leon Breedt
On Mon, Nov 09 1998, Leon Breedt spake thus: i just noticed something else. i'm running exim on a dialup box, with some success. i can get local messages (via fetchmail) delivered fine. or maybe not so fine. after running fetchmail, i see local messages aren't all delivered immediately, some

Debian 2.1, Adresses

1998-11-09 Thread Peter Berlau
Hi, can anyone please mail me a address where I can buy GNU-Debian Linux in U.S.A or order via Internet Thanks a lot Grüße, Peter

Re: Debian 2.1, Adresses

1998-11-09 Thread John Maheu
http://www.debian.org/distrib/vendors John Maheuphone (403) 492-2049 University of Alberta email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept. of Economics Edmonton, Alberta Canada, T6G 2H4

which fax?

1998-11-09 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, Which fax sending/receiving package should I get, please? efax, mgetty or ? Are there any advantages or disadvantages to one or the other? I have a generic faxmodem. If I'd be able to serve it as a PostScript (or other) printer to a Windows box, that'd be nice (I have samba working OK),

Re: standardising X

1998-11-09 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (richard): This is purely an asthetic question, so all coments are welcome. I'd like to standardise my X Windows, so that they all look and operate the same. In X, any window can look any way it likes. That said, though, most X apps are written using one of

Re: Is there any FREE alternative for l

1998-11-09 Thread john
Richard L. Alhama writes: What if the author died ? Then his heirs own the copyright. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the public domain. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do with it what you will. Dancing Horse Hill Make money from it if you can; I don't mind. Elmwood,

bash ulimit (was swap space ...)

1998-11-09 Thread Michel Juillard
what I thaught was a swap space problem comes in fact from the bash ulimit data segment size set to 20480 Is this hardwired in bash? Can it be change system-wide? For the time beeing, I'm only able to change it in a shell run by root. Thanks Michel

newbie diff question

1998-11-09 Thread Jeff Miller
Hello, I was wondering how to *use* a diff file. I understand what is in the diff file, but is there an automatic way to update the applicable files based on the diff content or do I have to apply the changes manually? Thanks!

Re: newbie diff question

1998-11-09 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 04:03:50PM -0500, Jeff Miller wrote: is there an automatic way to update the applicable files based on the diff content or do I have to apply the changes manually? patch your.diff This may or may not work, depending on the type of the diff. If you experience

Re: standardising X

1998-11-09 Thread AJT60
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Jiri Baum wrote: Hello, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (richard): This is purely an asthetic question, so all coments are welcome. I'd like to standardise my X Windows, so that they all look and operate the same. In X, any window can look any way it likes. That said,

Re: Debian 1.2.125 kernel source

1998-11-09 Thread Adrian Bridgett
On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 10:58:00AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: [snip] Other than that minor change, the 2.1.125 kernel seems to work pretty well. Now to patch it up to 2.1.127 :) What about Alan Cox's 2.1.127ac1 patch? g Adrian email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.poboxes.com/adrian.bridgett

Using sound on Debian?

1998-11-09 Thread Milan Durovic
This may sound as a stupid question, but I cannot figure out how to use sound on debian 2.0 system. I never used debian before and I installed it only recently. When I run 'saytime', logged in as root, I get error message: opening /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device and /dev/audio is:

Adaptec 7890Ultra2 prob

1998-11-09 Thread dman
I've got a new SuperMicro P6DBU with onboard Adaptec-7890 Ultra-2. I've tried the aic7xxx instruction set, but it fails to recognize the drives. It's got a Cheetah Ultra2/LVD drive and SONY DAT tape drive. Should the aic7xxx drivers work? Are there any changes I should make to the Adaptec BIOS?

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