Re: StarOffice 5

1999-02-26 Thread Brett Wuth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Olafur Jens Sigurdsson) writes: On 25. February 1999, Damir J. Naden wrote: I've installed it simply following the setup provided by StarOffice (part of the download), following the instructions in their README. It worked flawlessly. I tried to install it some days

Re: Creative Labs DVD Encore Dxr2 and Linux video problems

1999-02-26 Thread Cliff W. Draper
On Fri, 26 Feb 1999, Steve Rothanburg wrote: Christopher Fury wrote: But X windows is horrible. Colors bleed and shimmer all over the place and the video is offset. If I disconnect the video pass through and connect the monitor straight to my video card the problem goes away.

Fwd: Where to find the files?

1999-02-26 Thread Kent West
Forwarded to the list, so please include Gustavo in your reply. X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Originating-IP: [209.198.228.5] From: Gustavo Valdes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Where to find the files? Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:04:53 PST Delivered-To: [EMAIL

Re: Dependency problem with libc6

1999-02-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
crp wrote: I must say that does seem a little drastic. Should I use dpkg to force the downgrade of libc6 from the t version to the u version and then rerun apt-get upgrade? Will it break the packages that depend on libc6_2.0.7u only temporarily? Or are there other options? In

Compiling my kernel - but it's not working as I planned

1999-02-26 Thread MallarJ
I have some kernel compliling issues: * I'm using kernel-package (and boy does it make life easier!) * I'm running slink, compilng kernel 2.0.36 * I'm using menuconfig Questions: 1) I'd LOVE to have the .config file used to create the distribution version of kernel-image.2.0.36. I can't

Re: Problem with Netscape browser!

1999-02-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear friends, I recently downloaded and installed Netscape 3.01. Everytime I try to launch it. it says it can't load libXpm.so.4. I really don' know what to do... Any help??? thanx giulio ps: I run Debian 2.0R3 I highly reccomend going back to

web based mail

1999-02-26 Thread CAA
hi all, i was wondering if there's anyone here who gives web based mail services to their customers. if so, what package/application can you suggest w/c, based on ur experiences is proven to work in a nice and stable way. (and also those w/c will allow u to sort ur email in diff folders

RE: Compiling my kernel - but it's not working as I planned

1999-02-26 Thread Shaleh
On 26-Feb-99 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have some kernel compliling issues: * I'm using kernel-package (and boy does it make life easier!) * I'm running slink, compilng kernel 2.0.36 * I'm using menuconfig Questions: 1) I'd LOVE to have the .config file used to create the

Re: Compiling my kernel - but it's not working as I planned

1999-02-26 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 2/26/99 2:29:24 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 1) I'd LOVE to have the .config file used to create the distribution version of kernel-image.2.0.36. I can't imagine this is hard to obtain. Can someone tell me where to get it? Grab

Re: Problem with Netscape browser!

1999-02-26 Thread Richard Harran
Netscape 3 may be old, but it works fine. I believe it may also be smaller and possibly even faster than 4 on an older machine. Apart from the use of old libs, I can't think of any good reason to upgrade, although I'm quite willing to listen if anyone thinks otherwise. Just my opinion (I'm

Re: Problem with Netscape browser!

1999-02-26 Thread Ed Cogburn
Richard Harran wrote: Netscape 3 may be old, but it works fine. I believe it may also be smaller and possibly even faster than 4 on an older machine. Apart from the use of old libs, I can't think of any good reason to upgrade, although I'm quite willing to listen if anyone thinks

SMC EtherEZ PCI 10/100 (1211 TX)

1999-02-26 Thread Mike Merten
Hi, I have an SMC EtherEZ 10/100 PCI network card and I'm having trouble getting it to work. I've read the Ethernet-HOWTO and Hardware-HOWTO, both of which mention several SMC cards, but none that match this one. It's a brand new card with a single chip marked with: SMC EN5030A

Re: rc.boot for regular users

1999-02-26 Thread Roberto Rosario
Andreas Rapp wrote: I would like to start fetchmail in daemon mode at boot time as a regular user, not as root (I don't want fetchmail sending unresolved eMails to root, but to my account) Can regular users also have boot scripts ? Andreas -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

Re:/etc/hosts on one machine

1999-02-26 Thread Daryl Williams
you can achive this using nis. alternatevely you could create a symlink from /etc/hosts to an nfs mounted parition where you would actually keep the host file. i would however *not* recommend this (second) option. if your network went south you would not have any name resolution, if in fact you

Re: Detailed query from an interested person. (fwd)

1999-02-26 Thread Martin Schulze
Can somebody of you please answer him. Thanks, Joey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I own the following (I don't actually *UNDERSTAND* most of this stuff, I've just copied it off the manual and the Acer web site.): Acer 1242M desktop system. The details: Processor/System Memory

Re: ppp failure to connect

1999-02-26 Thread John Hasler
kurgan writes: a series of magic numbers, which I assumed meant I was connected and talking with my provider. Please post an exact copy of the log, include the magic numbers. I cannot get a ping (it just hangs) Try ping -c10 206.27.215.80 What do you have in /etc/resolv.conf ? --

Gnome programs crash

1999-02-26 Thread Matthew Cocker
After installing gnome programs from slink, the programs won't run. I get the following error message gnome-session: error in loading shared libraries /usr/lib/libgnome.so.31: undefined symbol: poptHelpOptions Any ideas cheers matt

Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-26 Thread Johnie Ingram
TIME: Slink release - 3 days 1 hours We are mere hours away from the largest IRC party Debian has ever thrown -- bigger than Bo, bigger even than Hamm. :-) The release of 2.1 Slink will happen: in Australia: at 11:00 AM ACT on Tuesday Mar 2 in Europe: at 0:00 midnight

Re: hda: unexpected_intr: Error=0x41 { DriveStatusError }

1999-02-26 Thread Richard Lyon
I have tried several ways of istalling debian, I have formatted my disk with BIOS, with fdisk, with fips. I am getting an error message that repeats its self: had: unexpected_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } hda: unexpected_intr: status=0x41 { DriveStatusError } A

Re: Intent to Party like its 1999

1999-02-26 Thread David Welton
On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 05:43:18PM -0500, Johnie Ingram wrote: We are mere hours away from the largest IRC party Debian has ever thrown -- bigger than Bo, bigger even than Hamm. :-) The release of 2.1 Slink will happen: in America: at 4:00 PM PDT on Monday Mar 1 Given that

Re: lilo

1999-02-26 Thread blackie
I have the same problem. Running lilo by hand works just as well as the script doing it. I am _not_ a lilo expert but I have checked the lilo manual and I can only come up with two things. 1) wipe out the MBR on hda with DOS fdisk /MBR and run lilo by hand again. 2) I don't use that

<    1   2