Linux vs. CD-ROM PIONEER DR-A24X

1998-11-15 Thread Anxo Gómez Cao
Hola, Tengo un problema con mi lector CD-ROM PIONEER DR-A24X. Soy incapaz de montarlo en Linux. Es más, la instalación de varias distribuciones distintas de Linux desde el CD-ROM se quedaban colgadas una vez cargado el kernel y a la hora de comenzar la transferencia de archivos desde el CDROM. He

Re: memorandum

1998-11-15 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hola! Lo primero pedir disculpas, pues estos mensaje se sale de la temática (off-topic), y lo he reenviado a esta lista por error. De hecho iba para debian-l10n-spanish. - Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Ay, ay, ay! Quiero apuntar una cosa...

Insertar nueva tarjeta de RED despues de la instalacion

1998-11-15 Thread Correcaminos
Despues de instalar una Hamm, tuve que añadirle una tarjeta de red, en concreto una ne2000 PCI. En otras ocasiones, con Bo, me iba a '/etc/modules' (si no recuerdo mal) y le ponia algo asi como: [...] ne irq=XX io=0x [...] Con esto, conseguia que me

Re: Linux vs. CD-ROM PIONEER DR-A24X

1998-11-15 Thread Correcaminos
Anxo Gómez Cao wrote: Hola, Tengo un problema con mi lector CD-ROM PIONEER DR-A24X. Soy incapaz de montarlo en Linux. Es más, la instalación de varias distribuciones ... [...] Hago una llamada de auxilio por si alguien se ha encontrado con este problema, y si alguien lo ha solucionado

Encuentro cercano con Debian hamm

1998-11-15 Thread Lord of Hell
Acabo de medio instalar debian 2.0.? en mi maquina Pedi por internet los cd oficiales de debian 2.0.? creo el boot disk , entro al programa de instalacio ( dinstall ) El dinstall me parecio muy bueno solo tenia una pequena deficiencia le faltaba el boton cancel cuando te pregunta select media to

Impresion con Netscape

1998-11-15 Thread Salvatore Sasegui
Hola! Comento un problema que tengo tratando de imprimir con Netscape por si alguien tambien lo tiene y/o seria tan amable de ayudarme: Resulta que cuando quiero imprimir una pagina web lo que me sale por la impresora no es la pagina web en si sino el codigo fuente de la

Re: memorandum

1998-11-15 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:27:06PM +, Oscar González wrote: Hola. decir consola, fichero, raton, ordenador y no se que otro monton ¿Cómo llaman en latinoamérica a los ratones? 102% de las personas aquí dicen 'mouse', y estoy seguro que más de uno no te va a entender que te refieres

Infovía Plus. Tenle miedo, mucho miedo.

1998-11-15 Thread Ismael Valladolid
A partir del 1 de diciembre, Infovía Plus! (sic) estará `operativa' ;-) en España, con lo que aquellos a quienes nuestro proveedor nos lo permita desde ya tendremos que ir iniciando el `tinglado' de cambiar nuestra configuración para la conexión a internet. El cambio `gordo', aparte del número de

¿MRU? ¿MTU?

1998-11-15 Thread Ismael Valladolid
¿En qué afectan estos parámetros a la velocidad de la conexión a internet? ¿Cuáles son los valores apropiados para una conexión telefónica? Gracias y un saludo. -- Ismael Valladolid ~ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ http://personales.mundivia.es/iron/ 'I gotta tell you my tale, Of how I loved and how I

Off-topic: lista cplusplus

1998-11-15 Thread Jose Agustin Lopez Bueno
Hola a todos! Alguien me podria recomendar una lista de programacion de c++? A ser posible en castellano. Muchas gracias, Agustin === | Jose Agustin Lopez Bueno | | E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |

Re: Adaptec SCSI Controller?

1998-11-15 Thread SEGV
Evan Van Dyke wrote: The 2.0.xx kernels won't support the 2940U2W by default, but if you patch in the newer version of the aic7xxx drivers then it will. I have a SCSI controller based on the AIC7890 chip(same as the 2940U2W) and it works fine. Alternatevly, if you install the latest 2.1.x

Lilo.conf

1998-11-15 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Hello all. I am trying to write my lilo.conf file, since when I was installing Linux, I decided not to use Lilo, and just boot it from a floppy. Right now I need to make use of Lilo, so here is my problem: I got 2 IDE HD's , C and D, hda and hdb respectively C contains win95 D has a small 20M DOS

Re: Lilo.conf

1998-11-15 Thread Marc Barnett
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 06:23:56PM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: Hello all. I am trying to write my lilo.conf file, since when I was installing Linux, I decided not to use Lilo, and just boot it from a floppy. Right now I need to make use of Lilo, so here is my problem: I got 2 IDE HD's , C and

installation on older Toshiba laptop?

1998-11-15 Thread Dan Williams
I am starting to look into installing Linux on an old Toshiba 4400C laptop. I have the InfoMagic CDs, but no CD rom on the laptop but I've got one on my desktop and can make floppies. So any particular things to keep in mind in attempting this? Is it possible to install linux on this at all?

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

1998-11-15 Thread Adam Shand
/usr/bin/X11 is a directory - no wonder it won't exec. doh. yeah, silly me. it didn't occur to me for some reason that the problem would be that simple. heh heh... I got this when upgrading too. Somewhere along the upgrade I was asked if I wanted to change the xserver to something, and

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

1998-11-15 Thread Adam Shand
set it to '/usr/bin/X11/XF86_S3V' after you hav installed the server and it should work. that helps a lot thanks. one question it appears that the debian setup actually has a wrapper installed for security reasons so that you aren't supposed to run them directly. do you know, is the Xserver

A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Chris Mayes
Hello, everyone. While I am not particualrly new to Linux in general (June '98 RH 5.0/1, SuSE 5.2/3), i am totally new to Debian. As such, I have a few questons. My frst question actually pertains more to System Commander than Debian itself, though it's involved ;-) Here it is: when I modify

Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 09:57:42PM -0500, Chris Mayes wrote: I understand that Debian strictly adheres to the GPL, No. Debian adheres strictly to the Debian Free Software Guidelines (DFSG) [1], which allow other things than GPL, too. For example, X is not GPL but it is DFSG-free, so we

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-15 Thread Stefan Nobis
Michael Beattie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Easy... as suggested, change the `apt-get clean ...` line from /usr/lib/dpkg/methods/apt/install to something thus - `true ...` OK - i know how to change it now, but nevertheless i think the default should be to ask the user when something is to be

Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Jim Foltz
Welcome Chris, On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 09:57:42PM -0500, Chris Mayes wrote: Hello, everyone. While I am not particualrly new to Linux in general (June '98 RH 5.0/1, SuSE 5.2/3), i am totally new to Debian. As such, I have a few questons. My frst question actually pertains more to System

dpkg Packages.gz: not a plain file error?

1998-11-15 Thread Randy Edwards
I'm tracking slink and have a local mirror of it. However, when upgrading a machine on my local network with the latest apt, I get the following error message: Get ftp://ftp.golgotha.net slink/contrib Packages Error ftp://ftp.golgotha.net slink/contrib Packages 550

kernel 2.1.128 sound

1998-11-15 Thread Paul McDermott
Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: Operation not supported by device tail of /var/log/kern.log

X and KDE

1998-11-15 Thread ds
I got my server up and running with xserver-svga. Then I decided to add KDE as a X-Windows manager. Now I've got it all messed up. There were multiple problems in installing KDE, but I finally got it installed, but I can not find the startkde script on the system any place. Also, when I

Re: system hang on boot

1998-11-15 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 12:14:43 +0800 Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Sibuyas Bombay [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Reply-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precedence: list

Re: Installtion of xserver for debian 2.0

1998-11-15 Thread Oleg Krivosheev
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 10:52:14 -0800 (PST) Resent-from: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Rakesh Mohan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Resent-cc: recipient list not shown: ; Precedence: list X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP:

lowmem install

1998-11-15 Thread wtb
Two general areas of puzzlement related to lowmem debian installation: After the keyboard config during the installation vi was called to amend fstab to add /dev/hda3 none swap sw 0 0 . All went well and fstab looked properly modified but then I could not get out of vi and back to

Re: Starting out trouble

1998-11-15 Thread Jiri Baum
Hello Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED], The program xdm says it's loaded, but there is no gui visible, just the prompt. Perhaps I misunderstood what xdm is, at least I have a prompt. I You can have the computer start with either the text prompt or xdm even if you have both installed. This is set by

Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Michael Beattie
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Chris Mayes wrote: Hello, everyone. While I am not particualrly new to Linux in general (June '98 RH 5.0/1, SuSE 5.2/3), i am totally new to Debian. As such, I have a few questons. My frst question actually pertains more to System Commander than Debian itself, though

Re: No manual entry for lpc

1998-11-15 Thread Alan Tam
Hi Vernon, Thanks for you hints. I've solved my problems now. I issued the command dpkg -C to check for broken packages. Yes, it is. There are a few incomplete installations. So I reinstalled the system and now all the man lpc, lpd, lpq, lpr and printcap pages works fine.

Re: Can't start windowmaker

1998-11-15 Thread Torsten Hilbrich
On: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:24:36 -0500 Mario Bertrand writes: Hi, I can't start windowmaker from login with startx command, it open a few seconds and then it crash. All other WM are ok. Is there something missing? You should start a plain X11 (e.g., with a single xterm in .xinitrc) and call

Re: SMP

1998-11-15 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): The motherboard is an AMI Titan 3 - w/ two 166MHz Pentums - 64MB RAM. Here's what I know: Linux version 2.1.123 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Fri Oct 16 10:22:12 EDT 1998 oSo I know I've got SMP support compiled in... Hmm, IIRC

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

1998-11-15 Thread Mika Fischer
Hi, Adam! On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 05:23:22PM -0900, Adam Shand wrote: one question it appears that the debian setup actually has a wrapper installed for security reasons so that you aren't supposed to run them directly. do you know, is the Xserver file what the wrapper uses to determine

Communicator4.5

1998-11-15 Thread Marcus Geiger
Hi, I want install the communicator 4.5 package(s) from the slink distribution. I found out that: communicator-base-45 |-depends on: netscape-base-45 |-depends on: netscape-base-4 So far so good, but I cannot find the netscape-base-4 package. Is the name mispselled or what I am

More questions (hardware-related)

1998-11-15 Thread Chris Mayes
Hi, all. Okay, I am having serious troubles with my printer, now. The first time I ran Debian and it probed lp1, my printer proceeded to test itself by slamming the cartridge carriage against the far side of the track. After many tries, I finally got it behaving again by pulling the printer

Re: A new Debian user's initial questions

1998-11-15 Thread Chris Mayes
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: I think you are trying to start suse with your debian kernel. what you should do, is mount the suse partition, and have 'image = /suse_root/vmlinuz' in the suse section. Ah, so I need to tell it which mount point on the Debian kerel contains the

more X in slink stuff...

1998-11-15 Thread Zack Brown
I'm using slink. When I run startx, I get the following errors: xauth: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xauth: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xinit:

problems after upgrading libc6

1998-11-15 Thread lead
hi debians i´ve got a problem after upgrading hamm-libc to 2.0.7u-4: i installed libc6_2.0.7u-4 manually which is required by staroffice 5 but after upgrading my apt (0.1.6) couldn´t install anything further it says: Checking system integrity...dependency error You might want to run apt-get -f

How to make your kernel detect 64MB RAM

1998-11-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 12:31:40PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, Hi Mark! My friend's laptop has 96M of RAM installed. When it boots, it has a message saying that 96M is installed and BIOS setup shows the same thing, but when I run free under Debian it comes up with: # free

Re: Bad primary partition

1998-11-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
Hi Richard, On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 02:34:35PM -0500, 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

Re: SMP

1998-11-15 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 08:12:41PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy All!! Hi Chuck! From /proc/version: Linux version 2.1.123 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 2.7.2.3) #3 SMP Fri Oct 16 10:22:12 EDT 1998 oSo I know I've got SMP support compiled in... Yet /proc/cpuinfo sure makes it

Re: Can't start windowmaker

1998-11-15 Thread Sourcerer
On: Sat, 14 Nov 1998 01:24:36 -0500 Mario Bertrand writes: Hi, I can't start windowmaker from login with startx command, it open a few seconds and then it crash. All other WM are ok. Is there something missing? I've seen this behavior in some versions. In others it crashes only the

Re: Need help with ppp conection.

1998-11-15 Thread Michele Bini
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Lloyd Burris wrote: When ever I hook up to the internet from linux I seem to have trouble connecting to websights, ftp, and news servers. Can anyone tell me how to tune up Linux for a faster connection. When I am in windows my system flys but in linux

Re: Does Sound even work for Java-Linux?

1998-11-15 Thread Michele Bini
On Fri, Nov 13, 1998 at 10:24:12PM -0700, Chip Grandits wrote: P.S. Is ADPCM the super-evil microsoft format that no opensource enthusiast deigns to support? How come I can't find a single Linux app to play ADPCM WAV files?! I know of two linux applications which are able to play ADPCM

ide

1998-11-15 Thread Rx
Hello, my HD CHS=16838,255,63 is recognized by my computer : 2,34,56 or something like that, which is very different from the original. the BIOS recognize it in the good way, BUT the kernel doesn't. and M$ Windozs recognize it in the good way too. What could I do ? thanks Xavier

Re: Need help with ppp conection.

1998-11-15 Thread Piotr Wachowiak
On Tue, Nov 10, 1998 at 10:06:00AM -0600, Lloyd Burris wrote: When ever I hook up to the internet from linux I seem to have trouble connecting to websights, ftp, and news servers. Can anyone tell me how to tune up Linux for a faster connection. When I am in windows my system flys but in

Re: ide

1998-11-15 Thread Nuno Carvalho
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Rx wrote: Hello, my HD CHS=16838,255,63 is recognized by my computer : 2,34,56 or something like that, which is very different from the original. the BIOS recognize it in the good way, BUT the kernel doesn't. and M$ Windozs recognize it in the good way too.

AMD K6-2 kernel compile ?

1998-11-15 Thread Marc van der Vossen
Hi group readers, I was wondering what CPU I should select for compiling the kernel. I have a AMD K6-2 300MHz. Should I compile for a regular pentium, or do the newer kernels have K6 as a selectable CPU ? Wowie, just a bit of time and my PC won't have any Intel, nor Microshit on it. ;-))) TIA,

trn trouble on slink

1998-11-15 Thread Zack Brown
When I try to run trn, I get the following error: --- Warning: Couldn't open /etc/news/whoami to determine hostname! Caught an internal error--.newsrc restored --- Zack

Re: lowmem install

1998-11-15 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 11:28:20PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone been able to install the lowmem version of debian linux on a 386 with 4meg ram?? If so, what procedure was used. Is there no hope of adding a swap partition after installation?? The workaround is described at

Re: Adaptec SCSI Controller?

1998-11-15 Thread Robert Claeson
Nathan E Norman wrote: IMO, Quantum SCSI drives suck. I tolerate Adaptec and I really like IBM Ultrastar drives. I second that. I have an Adaptec 3940UW board (essentially two 2940UW cards in one) and two IBM Ultrastar 9ES 9.1 GB drives in the server. They're excellent performers.

Re: dselect (or apt) wish list

1998-11-15 Thread Robert Wilderspin
On 10 Nov 98 21:51:40 GMT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Zack Brown) wrote: [lots of ideas for dselect, which I snipped] Some good ideas there, Zack. A couple have already been done (the skipping of installed packages and the selections-from-file ones), but here's my wishlist for those that might care to

Adaptect2940UW and Decchip21041 share the same interrupt

1998-11-15 Thread Oz Dror
Hi, I have P1-MMX 200MHZ a Kingston network card based on 21041 and a scsi controller AHA2940UW. Both share the same irq (11). Both are PnP. Is this a problem. id So How can I fix it. -thanks Oz Dror -- NAME Oz Dror, Los Angeles, California EMAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]

slink gives errors installing gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb

1998-11-15 Thread Zack Brown
I've downloaded gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb three times, and each time it failed to install due to errors. At least the last two time, the download gave the same file, which leads me to believe it's not ftp corruption. Here's a couple samples: # dpkg -D1 -i gimp-manual_1.0.0-1.deb (Reading database

Re: kernel 2.1.128 sound

1998-11-15 Thread mwb
On Sat, 14 Nov 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: Hello everyone, I just got kernel 2.1.128 up and running. I am loading sound as a module. When I try to cat something to the device I get this error message: [paul:~/multimedia/next-gen]$ cat youronbd.au /dev/audio bash: /dev/audio: Operation

Re: more X in slink stuff...

1998-11-15 Thread Daniel Martin
Zack Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using slink. When I run startx, I get the following errors: xauth: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory xauth: error in loading shared libraries libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared

pcmcia cardmgr doing the right thing after resuming?

1998-11-15 Thread Alan Su
Hi- i have a laptop here that does not see the pcmcia cards after resuming. basically, suspending the machine goes fine, and after resuming, i can do most everything. however, the network is not there. bouncing the card manager with '/etc/init.d/pcmcia restart' gets things back to normal.

Problem installing jdk1.1.6

1998-11-15 Thread Gernot Bauer
I tried to install jdk1.1.6v4a-3.deb from the slink distribution to my hamm-system but some errors occured: mother# dpkg -i /home/gbauer/jdk1.1_1.1.6v4a-3.deb (Reading database ... 31523 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace jdk1.1 1.1.6v4a-3 (using

emacs problems

1998-11-15 Thread Matthew Vernon
Dear all, Getting emacs19 and emacs20 to coexist is still proving impossible (and VM doesn't work with 20). I have emacs20 20-el and gnus installed, but when I try to install 19, I get the following: Cannot open load file: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/custom-init.el and then it fails.

emacs -- (Not X) Hexl-mode C-M does not work

1998-11-15 Thread Joseph Hartmann
My info on emacs tells me after I do a M-x hexl-mode enter C-M-x should be the way to insert a character in hex. Does C-M-x mean Control m (or Control M) followed by an x ? Control-m or Control M gives me a Carriage Return, not a prefix to a further command. This is emacs from the cheapbytes

Re: emacs -- (Not X) Hexl-mode C-M does not work

1998-11-15 Thread Chris Mayes
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: My info on emacs tells me after I do a M-x hexl-mode enter C-M-x should be the way to insert a character in hex. Does C-M-x mean Control m (or Control M) followed by an x ? Control-m or Control M gives me a Carriage Return, not a prefix to a

Re: StarOffice 5 - S3 fix available

1998-11-15 Thread Will Lowe
Those of you who have an S3V video card might like to know that while looking at the StarDivision web site yesterday I notice they have posted a fix .. http://www.stardivision.com Has anyone sucessfully gotten this patch? If you visit the website, click Support and then Download, you get

Re: pcmcia cardmgr doing the right thing after resuming?

1998-11-15 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Alan Su wrote: i have a laptop here that does not see the pcmcia cards after resuming. basically, suspending the machine goes fine, and after resuming, i can do most everything. however, the network is not there. bouncing the card manager with '/etc/init.d/pcmcia

Re: emacs -- (Not X) Hexl-mode C-M does not work

1998-11-15 Thread Joseph Hartmann
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 1998 15:19:11 -0500 (EST) From: Chris Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Joseph Hartmann wrote: My info on

AMD K6-2 kernel

1998-11-15 Thread Marc van der Vossen
Hi group, Sorry if this appeared earlier, but I didn't see it within about 3 hours, so I just posted it again. --- I was wondering what CPU I should select for compiling the kernel. I have a AMD K6-2 300MHz. Should I compile for a regular pentium, or do the newer kernels have K6 as a

Re: chrony sets your clock from the net

1998-11-15 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have just uploaded chrony to unstable. chrony is an 'atomic clock' package similar to xntp3 but easier to install and administer and more suitable for use with intermittent dialup connections. If you have a dialup connection to the Net it should work out of the

suggestion: transparent .deb files revealing logical structure

1998-11-15 Thread Zack Brown
Here's an idea. Many packages have a logical structure in which certain parts of the structure change nearly independently from other parts. I suggest breaking these into independent .deb files, while having package managers like apt and dselect optionally only be aware of them as single

Screw it! (Printer recommendations)

1998-11-15 Thread Chris Mayes
Well, I've wrestled with the ol' HP 520 for the last time. The problem was that it would not see where it was supposed to stop, or so it would seem as it would slam itself against the stop whenever I would run a check on it. Anyway, I tried cleaning the little plastic strip as thoroughly as

Re: installation on older Toshiba laptop?

1998-11-15 Thread Alexander Kushnirenko
Hi, You may want to check Linux on Laptop page: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/ though you laptop is not listed explicitly, but there are close models. Sasha. I am starting to look into installing Linux on an old Toshiba 4400C laptop. I have the InfoMagic CDs, but no CD

Re: Screw it! (Printer recommendations)

1998-11-15 Thread mwb
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Chris Mayes wrote: possible, stuck it back on, and *wham* Nothng changed. So, I've decided it's time to get a good(low-priced) laser printer. So, who has recommendations? I'd like to stay below 400, around 300 if possible. It should work well under Linux (obviously)