Re: SIGO CON LA IMPRESORA

1998-11-13 Thread Agustín Martín
PEDRO FERNANDEZ wrote: EL PROBLEMA EN PRINCIPIO ERA QUE TENGO UNA HP6L, Y NO PUEDO IMPRIMIR POSTSCRIPT, AUN CUANDO TENGO CONFIGURADO EL FILTRO MAGICFILTER, AGRADEZCO A LOS QUE ME HAN CONTESTADO DE QUE NO DEBIERA TENER PROBLEMAS, PERO LOS SIGO TENIENDO, PORQUE ME IMPRIME EN TEXTO

Re: Problemas con el jdk1.1.3 en Debian 2.0

1998-11-13 Thread TooManySecrets
Gomez Rubio Virgilio el día Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 06:16:57PM +0100 expuso lo siguiente: Hola: utilidades que es el comando javac seguido del fichero .java, me canta un SEGMENTATION FAULT. Y sin embargo dicho Kit va bien con otras distribuciones de Linux. Creo que el problema se

Impresora remota y PS

1998-11-13 Thread Fernando
Hola: Hace algun tiempo estuve tratando de configurar la ipresion a traves de una maquina remota (hp UNIX) utilizando el magicfilter. Para hacerlo utilice el siguiente /etc/printcap lp|lj|hplj3|HP Laserjet III:\ :lp=/dev/null:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3:\

Re: Impresora remota y PS

1998-11-13 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 11:05:45AM +, Fernando wrote: Para hacerlo utilice el siguiente /etc/printcap [ interesante idea pero no funciona por que magicfilter no esta hecho para trabajar en esa forma ] Si imprimo un archivo de texto funciona, (me

Cambio a 486

1998-11-13 Thread José Antonio Pozo Pinilla
Hola, quisiera hacer una consulta. Tengo una máquina LINUX basada en un 386 y quisiera meterle un 486 que tengo disponible (sólo cmabio de placa base). ¿Implica alguna modificación en el kernel?, y si es así ¿qué pasos he de seguir?. Grácias ==

Re: Impresora de agujas

1998-11-13 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Virgilio_Gómez_Rubio wrote: Hola: Resulta que tengo una impresora de agujas Citizen 124D y no consigo imprimir ficheros PostScript, DVI, etc. Tengo instalado el Magicfilter, pero el problema es que no s´e muy bien que filtro utilizar... Hola.Yo tengo una Epson LX400 (solo vista en museos

grupos de dispositivos y comandos de shell.

1998-11-13 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola a todos. Unas preguntitas: el otro dia sin darme cuenta, hice un chgrp users * en el directorio /dev. ¿Que consecuencias puede acarrear eso? ¿Lo puedo solucionar de alguna maneras? Todo fue para que un usuario pudiese utilizar fte en consola. Resulta que fte accede a no se que dispositivo, y

Re: Problemas con el jdk1.1.3 en Debian 2.0

1998-11-13 Thread Virgilio Gómez Rubio
POr cierto, has probado el Kaffe y el guavac? La m4aquina virtual del primero es m'as r'apida que la de SUn y el compilador guavac tambi'en es m'as r'apido que el de Sun. Si quieres te puedo pasar el Kaffe(versi'on 1, beta 2). ¿Ya no vienen ninguno de los dos en la distribución

Re: grupos de dispositivos y comandos de shell.

1998-11-13 Thread Felipe Sanchez
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Juan Carlos Muro wrote: [...] Y ultima: ?Como demonios se hace para mandar un proceso a segundo plano una vez lo has iniciado? Me dijeron que Ctrl + Z, pero si hago eso, se queda ahi en stop, y no puedo recuperarlo. ?Cual es la combinacion de teclas para que un

Re: CONFIGURANCION DE XWINDOWS

1998-11-13 Thread Juan Ramón Larrea
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Despues de configurar Xwindows sin ningun problema, cuando intento arrancar mediante la orden X no arranca y me da el siguiente mensaje: None of the configured devices were detected Fatal error: no screens found Prueba a hacer startx

Re: dselect listing

1998-11-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: I mucked up my package list. I'm trying to install kde and xfree86, the stable versions. One of the 2 required, so I thought, a xlibc _unstable_ version. I connected to the local debian distribution ftp site and got the unstable directory listings.

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread Randy Edwards
Daniel Mashao wrote: On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: I runs fine here. I am running slink and have tried three different kernels, 2.0.32, 2.0.35, and 2.1.127, all work fine. Maybe you need more video RAM? That thing is a resource pig. I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64

X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/ failed

1998-11-13 Thread Adam Shand
hey. i while back upgraded all my x stuff and unfortunately timed it just as the packages had been split up. i managed to figure out what was wrong and patch things back together but now i'm getting this error when i tried to change my xserver from s3v to svga. i'm trying to get work done on

xterm-debian

1998-11-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, Where is that page that explaines why we use xterm-debian instead of xterm? Searching for xterm-debian on the debian site only produces the FAQumatic. I have seen this somewhere before (Branden's pages?), and need it RSN, as someone has decided to flame me Thanks, Matthew

Re: /dev/cdrom problem

1998-11-13 Thread James Dietrich
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 11:39:26PM +, Vincent Murphy wrote: i can't use xplaycd or any other cd playing program as a normal user. the message i get from xplaycd is that permission is denied to use /dev/cdrom. i can make the program work using sudo though. any way i can fix this? See if

Re: ssh and X11 question: tcp_wrappers?

1998-11-13 Thread Adam Shand
Hi, when I ssh to another sshd machine, I can't forward X11 connections back to the machine where I am logged into the console. I always get the following error message: this means (surprise, surprise) that tcp_wrappers is denying the forwarded x session. what i do is restrict ssh via

Re: xterm-debian

1998-11-13 Thread James Dietrich
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 12:10:31AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, Where is that page that explaines why we use xterm-debian instead of xterm? Searching for xterm-debian on the debian site only produces the FAQumatic. I have seen this somewhere before (Branden's pages?), and need

Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration

1998-11-13 Thread Steve Beitzel
No, it's still unregistered, because it says so on the title bar, and I've tried reinstalling like 5 times already. That's why I asked the list in the first place -- I can't for the life of me figure out what the problem is with it, and it dosen't seem to bother anyone else. Thanks for trying

Re: Notebook for Debian

1998-11-13 Thread Eric House
David Welton wrote: Don't want to spend a fortune Don't need anything fantastic Do want something that works well with Debian Don't want to have to use proprietary X servers. I picked up an HP OmniBook 800 a few weeks ago specifically to run Debian. So far I'm delighted. It has only an

Re: bogomips

1998-11-13 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: bogomips Date: Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 12:56:21AM +0100 In reply to:Martin Bialasinski Quoting Martin Bialasinski([EMAIL PROTECTED]): w == wtopa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: w Yes that would seem about right. The problem I have is that my w 166MMX gives me

Sendmail 8.9 on hamm?

1998-11-13 Thread William R Ward
I'm running a 'stable' (hamm) system and want to have Sendmail 8.9 for its spam-blocking abilities. Hamm comes with 8.8.8 which I am not happy with. Is there an 8.9 .deb file that will work with hamm? --Bill. -- William R Ward Bay View Consulting http://www.bayview.com/~hermit/

Re: Debian and Win32?

1998-11-13 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Mon, 9 Nov 1998, Chang, FKK wrote: 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. [...] This cygnus-win32 base seems an ideal base for distribution of free software

Unresolved symbols on networking modules

1998-11-13 Thread Curt Daugaard
I've seen posts to this list about this problem before, but I can't recall the solution. I'm trying to revive an ip masquerading setup I had in the past, but when I try to start it up a get a long list of unresolved symbols on the net modules. The modules were made and installed after the last

Re: Setting gateway

1998-11-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Tomas Petersson wrote: Hello, I have just reinstalled debian 2.0 on my computer. For some reason the network has not been configured correctly. The netcard seems to work ok, and have a ipaddress assigned. Which commands do I have to issue to set up an default route

speech recognition

1998-11-13 Thread Gossamer
Having looked around, I'm pretty sure there's no decent speech recognition for Linux around. Please please correct me if I'm wrong! But am I also right in thinking that running one of the windoze speech rec packages under Wine wouldn't work? What I -really- want is to be able to work in my

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-13 Thread Stefan Nobis
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway. (Unless you actually need them) apt is very *bad* in this place - if you use apt as method in dselect,

RE: /dev/cdrom problem

1998-11-13 Thread Shaleh
Please include the program's output and the result of: ls -al on the /dev device that /dev/cdrom is linked to. On 12-Nov-98 Vincent Murphy wrote: i can't use xplaycd or any other cd playing program as a normal user. the message i get from xplaycd is that permission is denied to use /dev/cdrom.

Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration

1998-11-13 Thread Kevin
Mine worked. Make sure that you are typing a zero and not an oh when you are puting in your reg #. Also check to make sure that your first and last name and e-mail address are exactly the same as the ones you typed on the web page. You may want to direct any furher queries to the server:

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-13 Thread Michael Beattie
On 12 Nov 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway. (Unless you actually need them) apt is very *bad* in this

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
On 12 Nov 1998, Stefan Nobis wrote: Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Cant say I have seen this one, but I imagine that dselect is wise to only delete _installed_ packages.. so there is no need to keep them anyway. (Unless you actually need them) apt is very *bad* in this

Re: SIOCADDRT error message

1998-11-13 Thread Lindsay Allen
Are you running a 2.1.x kernel? If so comment out the route commands in /etc/init.d/network and read linux/Documentation/Changes in the kernel source. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Lindsay Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Perth, Western Australia voice +61 8

Re: bogomips

1998-11-13 Thread fantomas
- w Yes that would seem about right. The problem I have is that my - w 166MMX gives me 149.9 BogoMips on my Slackware partition and only - w 130.6 on my Debian partition. Same hardware (same box). - - Same kernelversion? The bogomips implementation changes sometimes. - - Yes. 2.0.34/35 on

Re: XEmacs shell garbage

1998-11-13 Thread Marcus Geiger
Thank Thorsten, I will read the documentation to term-mode, hope this will help me ! Marcus Torsten Hilbrich wrote: On: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 20:09:20 +0100 Marcus Geiger writes: XEmacs-Shell-mode doesn't seem to work correctly. I get some [ldksjf] - control-codes in braces. My machine is

Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration

1998-11-13 Thread David Lutz
Steve, I am having the same problem registering StarOffice 5.0 that you explained. When I try to do an online registration I get the HTML page and email with my Customer Number and Registration Key, but there is a failure. When I try to enter the Customer Number and Registration Key by hand

Re: X: exec of /usr/bin/X11/ failed

1998-11-13 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, Adam! On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 03:06:52PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote : i while back upgraded all my x stuff and unfortunately timed it just as the packages had been split up. i managed to figure out what was wrong and patch things back together but now i'm getting this error when i tried

xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
How can I solve the problems of colors on my system. I installed gnome and it always comes up with pepper noise. Apps such as xearth cannot run as they do not have enough colors. /--/ Daniel J. Mashao

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64 Meg and installing StarOffice crashes my machine too. It crashes everytime I try. I think it damaged my partition somehow. Now its time to get gwp working. which x server are you using? i'm in the process of

Re: ISP

1998-11-13 Thread Damon Muller
On Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:51:32 -0800 (PST) Lazar Fleysher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could some one tell me how to set up an ISP on Linux. I remember seeing a howto on the subject, but can not seem to find it. How to apply for IPaddresses? I seem to recall having seen one once as well, but it

Problems with kdelibs and other libs

1998-11-13 Thread Cesare Tagliaferri
Hi all, I have the following problem with kde and debian 2.0: I have installed all the required deb packages (kdebase, kdelibs0g, qt1g) without any problems. All the packages are correctly installed and configured; when I try to start kde (or kdm) I get the following message:

Strange encoding official CD from Linuxpress

1998-11-13 Thread gustaf . erikson
Hi all, I shelled out good money (Swedish) to purchase the official 2.0 distribution from Linuxpress. However, as soon as I mounted the CD to begin the upgrade, strange things appeared when I did this: [root]:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected,

Re: Strange encoding official CD from Linuxpress

1998-11-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
[root]:~# mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /cdrom mount: block device /dev/hdb is write-protected, mounting read-only This is entirely correct. CDROMS are write-protected by definition (unless you have a burner) [root]:~# ls -l /cdrom/ total 14 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root root 263 Jul 24

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread Peter Berlau
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 11:48:08AM +0200, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Adam Shand wrote: I am running on a Pentium 233 with 64 Meg and installing StarOffice crashes my machine too. It crashes everytime I try. I think it damaged my partition somehow. Now its time to get

apt, or a good http source

1998-11-13 Thread Andrew
Well, I haven't had much joy with apt. It works fine, unfortunately, I can't find a decent http server to connect to. (I can't use ftp because I'm behind a firewall and have to proxy). I've tried a couple from the mirror sites listing, but they seem to have problems finding packages. Can anyone

Re: Problems with kdelibs and other libs

1998-11-13 Thread Noah L. Meyerhans
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Cesare Tagliaferri wrote: Hi all, I have the following problem with kde and debian 2.0: I have installed all the required deb packages (kdebase, kdelibs0g, qt1g) without any problems. All the packages are correctly installed

Re: Debian and Win32?

1998-11-13 Thread Rodrigo Moya
Sorry, I forgot another site which lists all alternatives to Windows Explorer: http://www.msoe.edu/~rookd/wm/

mirror

1998-11-13 Thread John Leget
HI all, Any mirror users out there, how do i force it to download the files that symlink's on a remote site point to, ive had no success, it just ignores them. Thanx

Re: star office 5 hangs my system ...

1998-11-13 Thread John Stevenson
To all in Debian Land, I have successful installed and run Star Office 5, the only problem I had was downloading it in the first place I am using a fairly standard 'Hamm' install and running an external Xserver for my Neomagic videocard in my laptop. I have not had any real problems yet,

Re: Problems with StarOffice 5.0 Registration

1998-11-13 Thread John Stevenson
Hello All, Reading these emails has reminded me of something strange about the registration process. When registering On-line I was prompted for my customer number and my key. The problem was I was not aware of having a customer number, so simply entered my email address, then the key from the

boot from CD ?

1998-11-13 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi Is the 2.0_r1 CD image bootable ? I have to burn it here on work and I don't know how to make a bootable CD out of it. As far as I understand, I need to make an El-Torento(?) CD-Rom, i.e. one .raw file which contains a bootable HD partition and one .raw file that will be the normal

Re: apt, or a good http source

1998-11-13 Thread Frock
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Andrew wrote: Well, I haven't had much joy with apt. It works fine, unfortunately, I can't find a decent http server to connect to. (I can't use ftp because I'm behind a firewall and have to proxy). I've tried a couple from the mirror

Re: xterm-debian

1998-11-13 Thread servis
*- James Dietrich wrote about Re: xterm-debian On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 12:10:31AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Dear all, Where is that page that explaines why we use xterm-debian instead of xterm? Searching for xterm-debian on the debian site only produces the FAQumatic. I have seen this

RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

1998-11-13 Thread Shaleh
The pepper noise is esound loading. The color map issue is probably caused by some programs in GNOME eating colors. Try loading xearth w/o GNOME running and see if that helps. You failed to mention what window manager you are using. it is the window managers job to control the color palette.

Stacker

1998-11-13 Thread John Colvin
Dear People, if I did not do this right it is probably based in this being my first email having just joined the list. I am currently using Stacker for DOS (PCDOS 7.0). I would like to experiment with Linux on a 170Meg removable harddisk (from my 750C with 20Meg DRAM). With PCDOS I use win

compile error with a source package

1998-11-13 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello there, I got a source package for my hp scanjet scanner and tried to compile it. I'm new at programming or fixing code. I was wondering if you could give me some pointers where to look to fix the error, I am also going to give you the lsm of the package that I am trying to compile. Thanks

Re: Strange encoding official CD from Linuxpress

1998-11-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [ snip ] : The permissions are whacked! And the file README is a symlink to something, : yet it appears to be an executable. All symlinks had this feature, making : upgrading a potential disaster. : : The source CD had the same problem, but the

Re: Unresolved symbols on networking modules

1998-11-13 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Curt Daugaard wrote: I've seen posts to this list about this problem before, but I can't recall the solution. I'm trying to revive an ip masquerading setup I had in the past, but when I try to start it up a get a long list of unresolved symbols on the net modules. The

Starting out trouble

1998-11-13 Thread Bill
Hello, I'm just starting out with Linux and am not fairing all too well. The system seems to be up and running even though it took almost ten hours for it to load. Not a good start. The computer is an old (1996) Intergraph dual P133 w/128m RAM, SB16, Adaptec SCSI, a SCSI CDROM and two SCSI HDs.

[no subject]

1998-11-13 Thread William Temple
Hello: After searching the web for information I am now more confused than ever. Maybe you can help. I want to develop a Community FreeNet,but I am unhappy with what I have seen in other cities. When members/guests sign on I would like them to experience an AOL type of community. My

Re: Starting out trouble

1998-11-13 Thread David Z. Maze
Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill The program xdm says it's loaded, but there is no gui visible, Bill just the prompt. Perhaps I misunderstood what xdm is, at least I Bill have a prompt. I tried startx and it said no such file or Bill directory. Whatever, I'll eventually figure it out.

Re: boot from CD ?

1998-11-13 Thread John B. Fink
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Christian Hammers wrote: Hi Is the 2.0_r1 CD image bootable ? I have to burn it here on work and I don't know how to make a bootable CD out of it. As far as I understand, I need to make an El-Torento(?) CD-Rom, i.e. one .raw file which contains a bootable

Netscape 4.0x - segfault ; Netscape 4.5 - bus error.

1998-11-13 Thread caine
Ok...I have a interesting problem. Since changing from stampede 0.86 to a fresh debian 2.0 installation, I am having some problems with netscape. First of all..all the latest versions (4.06, 4.07, 4.08 and so on) crashes with a seg fault, without apparent reasons. The crashing line seems to

Re: ISP

1998-11-13 Thread Greg Frye
Here are a couple: A nice background with a lot of info So you wanna be an Internet Service Provider ISP) - http://www.vicnet.net.au/vicnet/help/isp.htm A lot of links with 'The Linux-ISP-HOWTO' as the first link (a good link as of this morning) Linux ISP - http://www.anime.net/linuxisp/ These

Re: bogomips

1998-11-13 Thread wtopa
Subject: Re: bogomips Date: Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 07:27:12AM -0600 I remember back in '98 when [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes. 2.0.34/35 on Slackware 149.9. On debian 2.0.34 120 Bogomips and on 2.0.35 130.6. The .config's on both dists are the same as well. Interesting,

Re: comuunity FreeNet front end

1998-11-13 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Here's something which may get you started: http://demo.obsidian.co.za/ This thing provides all kinds of interesting things users can do, including administration of your server! William Temple wrote: Hello: After searching the web for information I am now more confused than ever. Maybe

remote printing problems

1998-11-13 Thread Carmen Correia
I work at a public hospital in Portugal. The hospital has a LAN of almost 300 personal computers. The vertical distribution is made through a FDDI ring and the horizontal distribution is made through Ethernet. You have a Novell Netware 4.11 server with a software installed called “Unix to

Qt .deb files

1998-11-13 Thread Marc van der Vossen
Hi, I am thinking of installing debian again, but I am wondering were I can find the Qt free stuff as a .deb file. I do not have much Linux knowledge, but would like to run KDE if possible. Thanks for your help. Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Qt .deb files

1998-11-13 Thread Stephen A. Witt
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Marc van der Vossen wrote: Hi, I am thinking of installing debian again, but I am wondering were I can find the Qt free stuff as a .deb file. I do not have much Linux knowledge, but would like to run KDE if possible. Thanks for your help. Marc [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: The pepper noise is esound loading. The color map issue is probably caused by some programs in GNOME eating colors. Try loading xearth w/o GNOME running and see if that helps. You failed to mention what window manager you are using. it is the window

Re: dselect listing

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel E. Hollis
--- M.C. Vernon wrote: --- On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: I mucked up my package list. I'm trying to install kde and xfree86, the stable versions. One of the 2 required, so I thought, a xlibc _unstable_ version. I connected to the local debian distribution ftp site and got the

RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

1998-11-13 Thread Shaleh
Does anyone know how many colors I have if the depth is set at 8. Do not say 256 because I am not using that many colors to have 256 colors exhausted. 8bpp == 256 color 16bpp == 16million 32bpp == 32million The problem w/ colormaps is that some programs were not written well and use way

Bad primary partition

1998-11-13 Thread Richard Hall
After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap partition, it immediately chokes, saying FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition. I can't believe that

RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Shaleh wrote: Does anyone know how many colors I have if the depth is set at 8. Do not say 256 because I am not using that many colors to have 256 colors exhausted. 8bpp == 256 color 16bpp == 16million 32bpp == 32million The problem w/ colormaps is that some

voice modem

1998-11-13 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! Lightning killed my modem, so now I need a new one. I'd like a modem, with voice capabilities that can be used under Debian. Does anybody have a working setup and if so, with what modem. feri.

Re: dselect listing

1998-11-13 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED], On 12 Nov 1998, Daniel E. Hollis wrote: I mucked up my package list. ... b) place all the other packages on hold. Which would be nice if it could be done easily... Open the file /var/lib/dpkg/status and replace: s/^Status: install ok/Status: hold

Re: Where is makeinfo?

1998-11-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Ossama Othman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Is makeinfo available in the unstable tree yet? If so, what package is it | in? I couldn't find one. It should be in tetex-bin. I don't know if it's in unstable. -- ...Unix, MS-DOS, and MS Windows (also known as the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly).

Re: Qt .deb files

1998-11-13 Thread Ole J. Tetlie
*-Marc van der Vossen [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | I am thinking of installing debian again, but I am wondering were I can find | the Qt free stuff as a .deb file. I do not have much Linux knowledge, but | would like to run KDE if possible. The runtime files are in:

RE: xearth 1.0: fatal - unable to allocate enough colors

1998-11-13 Thread Shaleh
You seem to be answering your own question. Stop running GNOME panel and see if the problem goes away. If it does, complain to the authors of GNOME panel. In X Windows programming, each app asks for a colormap. If one app asks for a large colormap, the window manager doles out whatever is left

Re: Bad primary partition

1998-11-13 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, 13 Nov 1998, Richard Hall wrote: : After doing a low-level format of the hard drive and running a : verification check without complaint, I am unable to install Debain : because when the installation program runs fdisk to set up the swap : partition, it immediately chokes, saying

slink breaks

1998-11-13 Thread Robert Rati
I upgraded my system from hamm to slink (not entirely by choice) and encountered a number of problems. I seem to have fixed most of them, except Netscape appears to be broken. When I try to run netscape, I get this error: netscape: locale `C' not supported. along with a long description about

Re-installed xserver-common and now X is broken?

1998-11-13 Thread Daniel R. Allen
I previously installed and had Xwindows working. Then I messed with upgrading my 'bo' system from libc5 to libc6; it broke a lot of things. Including X. I re-installed xserver-common, which had been un-installed by apt; all the other X packages seem to be present, and dpkg and apt both say

Pre beginner

1998-11-13 Thread Rombalski, Emmanuel
Title: Pre beginner I am trying to install Debian Linux on a PC clone with a genuine Intel 166MMX processor, 64MB SDRAM, a Western Digital 2.5GB IDE hard drive, a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro PCI video card, and a generic NE2000 compatible NIC. I created a 400 MB DOS 6.22 bootable partition

g++272 libs, revisited.

1998-11-13 Thread Bob Bernstein
As part of a homework assignment I've written a little program to do arithmetic with fractions and mixed numbers, and I wanted to benchmark the speed of various algorithms for finding 'gcd,' the greatest common divisor. Not knowing how to do the timing piece, I started playing with gettimeofday.

Re: Future of Linux

1998-11-13 Thread BadlandZ
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Andy Tai wrote: Compilers are also an issue I feel strongly about. I think gcc and egcs are awsome, but no match (yet) for commercial compilers. Don't even think of trying making some commerical compilers part of the Linux standard, if they's what you are thinking.

Re: Future of Linux (.so contracts)

1998-11-13 Thread Bruce Stephens
Davide Bolcioni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If we say a library is a collection of functions which have a signature and an implementation, the notion of change becomes: 1 - an implementation change which preserves the signature; 2 - a signature change (which may be construed as a deletion