Re: NT y LINUX

1999-03-30 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:58:17PM +0200, Ramiro Alba dijo: José Enrique Álvarez Martín wrote: [Problemas de Arranque Linux+WinNT] Ya vieron los HOWTO relevantes. -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 |

Re: Puertos no encontrados

1999-03-30 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:37:13AM -0600, 'Marcelo E. Magallon' dijo: Javier Nogueira [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lo que sucede es que cuando en el BIOS se pone NO en la opcion PnP OS, es el BIOS el que configura las direcciones y los IRQ de las tarjetas PnP, de manera que para el

Re: MP3 - WAV

1999-03-30 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 10:17:21PM +, Rafael Cordones Marcos dijo: Hola, Hola... [Pasar de MP3 a WAV] lazlo:~$ mpg123 -s fichero.mp3 Y ahora con sox quiero leer de la entrada standard pero no me sale! lazlo:~$ sox -t raw -u -r 44100 -w -c 2 - snd.wav Y si intentas `mpg123 -s

Re: HELP

1999-03-30 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
El Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 05:40:55PM -0500, SAMUEL SOTO dijo: Por favor quisiera tener un documento que me informe acerca de todas las preguntas mas frecuentes del sistema operativo DEBIAN, pero en español ya que en su pagina web http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ se encuentra dicho documento pero

Fuentes en WordPerfect8

1999-03-30 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
Hola... Alguien sabe como hago para agregar fuentes a WordPerfect8 para Linux? -- Ugo Enrico Albarello López de Mesa| POWERED BY | www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] | DEBIAN GNU/LINUX 2.0 | www.gnu.org

Re: MP3 - WAV

1999-03-30 Thread Paco Brufal
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Rafael Cordones Marcos wrote: lazlo:~$ mpg123 -s fichero.mp3 mpg123 -s fichero.mp3 | sox -t raw -s -r 44100 -w -c 2 - salida.wav --- Paco Brufal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fidonet 2:346/3.68 --- ...Hustler For

Programacion del puerto serie.

1999-03-30 Thread Juan Carlos Muro
Hola a todos. Resulta que me he puesto a hacer un programa de comunicaciones de autómatas para clase (je je, el profe se quedó bocas cuando le dije que se lo hacía en Linux y todo ;-). Resulta que la conexion PC - Autómata se hace via RS232. Así que necesito programar el puerto serie del PC. Y mi

KDE 1.1 funciona en Slink

1999-03-30 Thread Ramiro Alba
Iniaki Fernandez Villanueva wrote: A ver si encontramos alguna solucion al kde. Hasta hace poco no lo usaba pq. con 32 MB no podia lanzar el netscape con varios xemacs pq. consumian mucha memoria e iba un pelin lento (ni podia compilar). Y justo ahora que he ampliado la memoria no puedo usar

Re: Programacion del puerto serie.

1999-03-30 Thread drequena
Hola, Prueba con: http://sunsite.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/Serial-Programming-HOWTO.html Saludos, David Requena

Iomega ZIP 100

1999-03-30 Thread Juan Valdemoro Saiz
hola lista: Hace tiempo leí en esta lista que alguien tenía problemas con una zip. A mi me pasa lo mismo. Compilo en el núcleo las opciones: scsi disk iomega zip paralell port (o algo asi) y hay veces que me la reconoce, otras que el módulo sg_noseque me da errores.

scanner

1999-03-30 Thread jon
Estoy pensando en comprarme un scanner.Cual me recomendais y que soft hay por ahi... agur

Re: Puertos no encontrados

1999-03-30 Thread Luis M. Cruz
El día Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:13:42AM -0500, Ugo Enrico Albarello escribió: Buenas... PD: Ya van 2 opciones de BIOS que se deben tener en cuenta a la hora de instalar Linux. Una es la del hueco entre los 15-16M y la otra es esta, la de PnP OS. ¿Alguien sabe de alguna otra?

Re: Puertos no encontrados

1999-03-30 Thread Han Solo
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:08:35AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: Ugo Enrico Albarello [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PD: Ya van 2 opciones de BIOS que se deben tener en cuenta a la hora de instalar Linux. Una es la del hueco entre los 15-16M y la otra es esta, la de PnP OS.

Re: NT y LINUX

1999-03-30 Thread Han Solo
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 03:58:17PM +0200, Ramiro Alba wrote: Tenemos Windows NT 4.0 instalado en una partición del primer disco y en otra(s) particiones del mismo disco instalamos Debian y onfiguramos Lilo para que arranque de los 2 sistemas. El arranque de Linux ningún problema pero el de

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ??? (fwd)

1999-03-30 Thread Lev Lvovsky
[Lev, who's recovering after a debilitating and unexplained MB crash replies] Somone mentioned that Winamp was available as a linux port...is this true? if so, what's the URL? In answering your question, Winamp is well written, well-supported, and there's no maturing nicely excuse :). -levi

Networking IP Masq question

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I have a question regarding networking and IP Masquerading that doesn't seem to be handled in just one HOWTO. Perhaps someone here can help. I have 3 boxes on a small home LAN, connected to the 'net with ADSL. I have 2 static IP's. Boxes 1 and 2 are both

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Jerry Lynn Kreps
BENJAMIN FARRELL wrote: Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client for x (other than Bitchx in a E-Term :) that doesn't crash everytime you click (yagirc I gave up on irc a long time ago, even while in WinXX. The S/N ratio was too low.

Re: Sending mail on a dialup connection

1999-03-30 Thread Tim Moore
Jor-el writes: When one has a remote connection, one can use fetchmail to download mail in a batch. I am looking for the opposite - sending composed mail from a designated mail folder as soon as the dialip link is up. So far, none of the MUA's I looked at seem to have this capabilty.

Re: ppp0

1999-03-30 Thread John Hasler
Chen Xu writes: When I tried to set up ppp on my Debian2.0 box, I found that I don't have interface ppp0 running. Actually it is not there. It should only exist while you are connected to your ISP. Is that what you mean? Any idea? how to fix? Not without more information. Exactly what

Re: problems playing mp3.

1999-03-30 Thread Herbert Ho
i'm also having trouble w/ my sound card (just sent the email in fact =), but my cd playing works fine. it seems the cd doesn't go through the sound drivers. the drivers only control the volume level of cdrom played stuff. so its probably a problem w/ the sound config. look in /dev/sndstat for

non-us.debian.org having problems???

1999-03-30 Thread Gregory T. Norris
I was just wondering if non-us.debian.org is currently having problems, specifically with the potato archive? My /etc/apt/sources.list has the entry deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US, which I believe to be correct. Here's an example of what I'm seeing... The ssltelnet

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ??? (fwd)

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Beitzel
Hey all, Just had to jump in with my $0.02 here -- Winamp is _not_ well written - it is a complete resource cow! It has many features that are just plain extraneous and introduce unnecessary overhead. I have trouble even *playing* mp3s on my family's Win98 box, a P133 with 32MB of RAM,

Re: ppp0

1999-03-30 Thread Martin Bialasinski
CX == Chen Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CX When I tried to set up ppp on my Debian2.0 box, I found that I CX don't have interface ppp0 running. Actually it is not there. I can CX only see the interface lo, but not ppp0. It will show up as soon as the ppp module gets loaded and pppd sets the

ProFTPD Question

1999-03-30 Thread Matt Kopishke
I am running Proftpd (slink) set up with the default config, it set up a /home/ftp were anonymous users are sent, but when I add directorys to the ~ftp dir, there are invisable to the anonymous user. Here the kicker, I can change dirs to the invisable directorys, go figure, can you help?

Re: Ghost View / .ps viewers

1999-03-30 Thread EdDown
In a message dated 3/29/99 12:24:01 AM US Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Try the package (Don't know if it is Debianised, but it is GPL'd I think) pstools. This gives lots of nice command-line tools to pull out pages of a .ps file and stuff. Ed I was wondering if anybody has

Re: ProFTPD Question

1999-03-30 Thread dyer
Matt Kopishke wrote: I am running Proftpd (slink) set up with the default config, it set up a /home/ftp were anonymous users are sent, but when I add directorys to the ~ftp dir, there are invisable to the anonymous user. Here the kicker, I can change dirs to the invisable directorys, go

login.app setting color depth to 16bpp

1999-03-30 Thread Roddie Rod
I'm trying to set my color depth to 16 bpp, currently it's starting in 8bpp. I had :1 local /usr/bin/X11 :1 vt9 -bpp 16 in /etc/Xserver but it is not reading that. I think in wdm it was placed in a different file. Is this the right place for it? thanks Roddie Rod 'Man is the greatest cancer

Re: PostgreSQL

1999-03-30 Thread Jonathan Guthrie
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I wanted to install postgreSQL on a machine without X but postgresql needs xlib6g tk... Is there a package without X Tk .. support ? Why do we need X ? I run PostgreSQL on several computers. The X stuff is there for the X client and the tk stuff

Re: ProFTPD Question

1999-03-30 Thread Alan Bailward
Matt Kopishke wrote: I am running Proftpd (slink) set up with the default config, it set up a /home/ftp were anonymous users are sent, but when I add directorys to the ~ftp dir, there are invisable to the anonymous user. Here the kicker, I can change dirs to the invisable directorys, go

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Daniel J. Brosemer
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Steve Beitzel wrote: Hey all, Just had to jump in with my $0.02 here -- Winamp is _not_ well written - it is a complete resource cow! It has many features that are just plain extraneous and introduce unnecessary overhead. I have trouble even *playing* mp3s on

Re: Sending mail on a dialup connection

1999-03-30 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Jor-el wrote: Hi, When one has a remote connection, one can use fetchmail to download mail in a batch. I am looking for the opposite - sending composed mail from a designated mail folder as soon as the dialip link is up. So far, none of the MUA's I looked at seem

Re: synchronize docs between os'es

1999-03-30 Thread Bob Hilliard
David Stern [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I keep word/staroffice docs in several different os'es (debian is my primary), and it's getting to be a PITB to manually synchronize everything across partitions. Does anyone have a simple yet elegant way of handling this? I don't want to reinvent

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ??? (fwd)

1999-03-30 Thread Michael Beattie
On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: [Lev, who's recovering after a debilitating and unexplained MB crash replies] Somone mentioned that Winamp was available as a linux port...is this true? if so, what's the URL? Its available in slink as x11amp otherwise, http://www.x11amp.bz.nu/

Re: login.app setting color depth to 16bpp

1999-03-30 Thread dyer
Roddie Rod wrote: I'm trying to set my color depth to 16 bpp, currently it's starting in 8bpp. I had :1 local /usr/bin/X11 :1 vt9 -bpp 16 in /etc/Xserver but it is not reading that. I think in wdm it was placed in a different file. Is this the right place for it? thanks Roddie Rod 'Man

WinNT and Linux install question

1999-03-30 Thread rathon
Hi, Using Debian2.0. My home installation with Linux and Win95 works perfectly. Now I am trying to install Linux on my NT machine at work. For my home installation, I used CD-ROM method for installation and this is what I did: 1)Copy all the CD-ROM drivers from autoexec.bat and config.sys files

Re: login.app setting color depth to 16bpp

1999-03-30 Thread Roddie Rod
Thanks. I guess, it can't get any simpler! I just set an hour search man pages and totaly overlooked that one. Thanks again! Roddie Rod 'Man is the greatest cancer ever to be seen' -Entombed 'Contempt'

ps vs free again

1999-03-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I saw earlier disscussions about ps and free. So what command can I use to actually display the total memory that is occupied by my system? Thanks. Shao -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _

Re: ps vs free again

1999-03-30 Thread dyer
Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I saw earlier disscussions about ps and free. So what command can I use to actually display the total memory that is occupied by my system? Thanks. Shao -- Me likes 'top'

Re: ps vs free again

1999-03-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I just tried top, but it seems it is showing the same info as free which is included the memory cached but can be freed if another program requests in the memory used section. What I want to know is the exact amount memory used by system, I don't want the cached memory. Thx. dyer

Re: Enlightenment crashes machine

1999-03-30 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi Dan Brosemer; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: On Mon, 29 Mar 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Netscape, in windows, in my experience, always had a tendency to | make a system run progressively slower until either netscape was | closed or everything crashed. I hadn't seen it under

some DNS config q's

1999-03-30 Thread Chadi
hI all ! i have successfully configured my DNS in a way that nslookup ftp.mydomain.com or ww.mydomain.com will point to me, for example, 111.22.33.44 ... i am master to this domain and doing a $ whois mydomain.com will give myself (111.22.33.44) as primary DNS and some free DNS service as

setting up a hostname

1999-03-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, At work, my machine connects to a ethernet lan and it has a unique ip address. If the company's domain is xxx.xxx.xx, I want to set up a name so that I can telnet to my machine using shao.xxx.xxx.xx. I tied to edit the file in /etc/hosts but it doesn't work. Could someone please help

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 09:16:11 -0800 (PST), Gary Singleton wrote: FWIW you might want to check out [EMAIL PROTECTED] (is that corny or what?). It's actually pretty neat you can do _everything_ through a browser. Download options are MS-Money,

ppp problems...

1999-03-30 Thread Gary Singleton
Hi Debian-User, can someone tell me what this snippet of my ppp.log file is trying to tell me? Everything seems to be working OK but I didn't get these Unsupported protocol problems until recently. Is it something with my new ISP? Or is it because I compiled a custom 2.0.36 kernel? Or could it

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 11:46:24 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: Netscape mail (I know, I know) is already standard in most enterprises. Yeah, and IIS is the standard web server, doesn't make it worth the price of the media it is infecting at the

help on setting up a host name

1999-03-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, At work, my machine connects to a ethernet lan and it has a unique ip address. If the company's domain is xxx.xxx.xx, I want to set up a name so that I can telnet to my machine using shao.xxx.xxx.xx. I tied to edit the file in /etc/hosts but it doesn't work. Could someone please help

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 12:54:06 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: Drag and drop from a spreadsheet, word processor, or graphics program ... the embedable opject idea. Having the mail program be able to directly render some standard wp formats, show

HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
This is an urgent plea for help! The problem is one I've experienced sporadically since I started with Debian several months back. Some packages won't install, giving an error such as this one: gzip: stdout: Broken pipe dpkg-deb: subprocess gzip -dc returned error exit status 1 dpkg: error

Re: WinNT and Linux install question

1999-03-30 Thread Will Lowe
I do not know how to configure the PC to boot from the CD-ROM. Reboot the machine. After the screen goes blank and it beeps, it'll probably count memory and they'll be a note on the screen that says Press DEL to enter SETUP or something. Some computers use CTRL-ALT-F1 instead of delete or

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 15:11:57 -0600, Kent West wrote: 1) Up-front cash outlay for the second computer (important to poor folks like myself) Low end pentiums are dirt cheap right now and run Linux exceptionally well. 2) Physical desk space.

Help! StarOffice 5.0 problems

1999-03-30 Thread William R Pentney
This problem should probably be directed at StarDivision, only they don't seem to have a tech support e-mail on their site. Perhaps someone else knows what's going on. I have Debian 2.0 and every time I install StarOffice 5.0, it runs fine until I have browsed the Web for a few minutes, at which

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 28 Mar 1999 13:39:41 -0800 (PST), George Bonser wrote: In large internal networks, email is an easy medium to share information between people at different facillities, etc. Mailing of presentations, spreadsheets, AV clips, etc. is very

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread John Galt
I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC dselect also worked the one time I tried during my dpkg hiatus. It ironed itself out in time and possibly updates, but I can't remember if dpkg or gzip got updated since then :( On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote:

Re: non-us.debian.org having problems???

1999-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
On Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 12:39:54AM +, Gregory T. Norris wrote: I was just wondering if non-us.debian.org is currently having problems, specifically with the potato archive? My /etc/apt/sources.list has the entry deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US, which I believe

Re: Printer Troubles

1999-03-30 Thread Jameson Burt
I was actually going to check the message archive this time, but I'm sitting here at a Netscape status bar telling me Connect: Contacting Host www.debian.org... endlessly. Anyway, I can't even get my printer to print a simple text file. It is a Panasonic KX-P4430. I checked the basic

Re: Convert FAT32 to FAT16 with windows 98

1999-03-30 Thread Ben Messinger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FAT32 does not appear to be just a new partition type, which can coexist with FAT16 Linux partitions. Both utilities I tried (Win95 FDISK Maxtor Maxblast) required either all FAT32 or no FAT32, and Linux FDISK was then unable to add any Linux/FAT16 partitions,

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread Robbie Huffman
Regarding: dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0700, John Galt wrote: I did--I got around it with apt: don't ask me how, it just worked. IIRC

Re: PostgreSQL

1999-03-30 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, 28 Mar 1999, Sami Dalouche wrote: I wanted to install postgreSQL on a machine without X but postgresql needs xlib6g tk... Is there a package without X Tk .. support ? Why do we need X ? I think Oliver Elphick, the package maintainer, must answer this one. However, if I were you, I

Re: help on setting up a host name

1999-03-30 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, I have all the passwd to access all the machines here, so what files do I need to modify in order to resolve the name. Carl Mummert wrote: You can't just add a line to /etc/hosts because that is not where remote queries for hostnames go. When a remote machine attempts to resolve a

Re: HELP! dpkg dies with --fsys-tarfile error

1999-03-30 Thread John Galt
apt-get install kernel-source-2.2.1 On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Robbie Huffman wrote: Regarding: dpkg: error processing ../kernel-image-2.2.5_Boris.1.0_i386.deb (--install): subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2 On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 09:21:46PM -0700, John

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Laurent PICOULEAU [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --snippage-- No, you could even retrieve this kind of features with bsod, a linux application to emulate Win1895 BSOD (Blue Screen Of Death). I've saw it a loong time ago either on sunsite or tsx-11 :-)) If anyone can find this please let

Okay to remove timezone package?

1999-03-30 Thread Mark Phillips
I want to remove the timezone package in favor or timezones. But as it is an essential package, I get the warning: WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing! timezone 0 packages upgraded, 33 newly installed,

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread David Woolley
Linux is young yet; just now becoming known to the masses. Up till not Most of Gnu Linux is actually very old; it is the commercialisation that is new. Most of Gnu/Linux is just a rework of very long established Unix tools. it has been more of a hobby for most people, it seems, than a

Re: ps vs free again

1999-03-30 Thread Steve Witt
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Hi, I saw earlier disscussions about ps and free. So what command can I use to actually display the total memory that is occupied by my system? Thanks. Shao 'top' gives a lot of very nice information in this regard.

Re: Bandwidth Control Program

1999-03-30 Thread Javier Castillo
With the new kernel 2.2, you can use IPROUTE2. The problem is that isn't a .deb package, so you must compile and install it, becase it's .tgz. Look at this web: http://lrcwww.epfl.ch/linux-diffserv/ We are probing this package, and i can asure you that is very interesting. Saludos. Russell

Re: use the Windowkeys

1999-03-30 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Ulrik == Ulrik Haugen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've used those keys for something different, but you may like that, or else someone else may... These are the lines of interest in my ~/.Xmodmaprc keycode 0x73 =Meta_L keycode 0x71 =Mode_switch Multi_key #I use

Re: Debian CDROMS

1999-03-30 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Steve == Steve McIntyre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Pierfrancesco Caci writes: Seriously speaking, maybe it would be useful to provide a single-cd downsized distribution to be included in those multi-cd sets like infomagic or walnut-creek. Then, once you have the first

Anybody have the time to help a newbie?

1999-03-30 Thread ruthurie
Hello. Ok. I have a copy of Debian on disk. I am attempting to install it on an IBM PS/2 386. When I boot up using the rescue floppy, I can set up to the point where it asks me to partition the hard drive. I select next, and I get an error stating Problem - No hard disk drives could be

SiS6326 chip and XFree86

1999-03-30 Thread Timo Reunanen
Does anyone know when XFree86 3.3.3.1 get some kind of fix to SiS6326 chip based cards like Diamond Speedstart A50 what I have? --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Quote from Heavenly Creatures (1994) Melanie Lynskey as Pauline Parker : She is the most unreasonable. Why could not mother die? Dozens of

Re: Mount for normal user

1999-03-30 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
How can I mount devices (CDrom / HD) as a normal user. For example : $ mount /dev/hdb /mnt/hdb mount: only root can mount /dev/hdb on /mnt/hdb Normally the mount command checks if you really are root, and disregards group membership. You can allow users to mount a certain partition by

Re: operation not permitted?

1999-03-30 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jayson Baird wrote: using cpio to undo rpm files (Alien to be exact), cpio returns for each file that the operation is not permitted...any ideas? You have to use fakeroot. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cyillic only)

RE: SiS6326 chip and XFree86

1999-03-30 Thread Krosigk, Lorenz Von
I think XFree86 3.3.3.1 is coming with support of this chipset. But NOT using the accelerated S3 variant but the normal SVGA. -Mensaje original- De: Timo Reunanen [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Enviado el: miércoles 31 de marzo de 1999 22:12 Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org CC:

star office

1999-03-30 Thread Shawn Nguyen
Hi, I am having some problem with Star Office 5.0, could someone shed some light on the situation? Apparently when I try to update the mail box Star Office start to freeze up my computer. What's happening is that my CPU is being overloaded when Star Office does this updating of the

Re: Printer Troubles

1999-03-30 Thread Richard Harran
You need to start up the printer daemon. Only a priveleged user can do this so try: $su (enter your root password) #lpd #exit Then try and print the file again. Normally, you should get the lpd daemon started automatically at start-up, so you may well get an error

crc errors with LILO

1999-03-30 Thread Lev Lvovsky
OK, I don't know if anyone caught my last post RE this ,but here's a quick brief: I have a SCSI and IDE system...the scsi drive holds root, but the scsi adapter doesn't have the ability to load w/o first having drivers loaded up. So what I thought would work (as it did with my RH install), was

not booting into Xwindows

1999-03-30 Thread Lev Lvovsky
can anyone tell me how to keep my computer from booting into Xwindows? This is a rather annoying automation... thanks :) -lev

Re: login.app setting color depth to 16bpp

1999-03-30 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/29/99 7:27:34 PM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm trying to set my color depth to 16 bpp, currently it's starting in 8bpp. I had :1 local /usr/bin/X11 :1 vt9 -bpp 16 in /etc/Xserver but it is not reading that. I think in wdm it was placed in a

Strange behaviour of soundcard

1999-03-30 Thread Kurt Stallknecht
I tried to config an Aztech soundcard on a hamm-system (kernel 2.0.34). In the first attempt I compiled the sound-support into the kernel. During this process I had to guess many things because the card is not in the list of supported cards and I don t have any papers of the manufacturer. So I

Re: [SuSE Linux] What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-03-30 Thread John Heaton
Heres a good point about linux, anyone found a good irc client for x (other than Bitchx in a E-Term :) that doesn't crash everytime you click (yagirc anyone). The last time I looked there are several IRC clients for X.. I still find for everyday use Win95/NT is better (quaking, ircing,

Re: Do We Need a New Evangelist?

1999-03-30 Thread Curt Daugaard
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 02:41:11PM -0800, ESP wrote: It's apparent that the two of you, and others, are willing to continue this stupid infighting out in the public for all to see. Whatever strides you may make for the Open Source community, you're doing it grievous harm by airing your

Re: not booting into Xwindows

1999-03-30 Thread Joop Stakenborg
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Lev Lvovsky wrote: can anyone tell me how to keep my computer from booting into Xwindows? This is a rather annoying automation... Remove tyhe xdm package. thanks :) -lev Joop -- Joop Stakenborg PA4TU [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: not booting into Xwindows

1999-03-30 Thread Sean
Remove the xdm script from your runlevel directory. If you're using runlevel 2 (most probably), then go to /etc/rc2.d, and delete the S**xdm package where ** will be some number. Sean Lev Lvovsky wrote: can anyone tell me how to keep my computer from booting into Xwindows? This is a rather

Re: setting up a hostname

1999-03-30 Thread Alexander Kadlec
Hi, Other computers on your network can't see what you have in the hosts file. The hosts file is only used by your computer locally. To solve this, you can do one of the this things: a) Copy your hosts file in every computer you are going to use to telnet your machine b)

Thanks to Gregory T. Norris

1999-03-30 Thread Nun Yobiznez
Dear Sir, Thank you for your redirection in the way of install. It helped me greatly in overcoming the hurdle to installation. Tim P.S. Sorry for the delay.I've been trying to get the install correctly configured but have run into problems w/ the perl and

No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95

1999-03-30 Thread Jeff Hill
After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help -- machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess with the MBR, but not certain how to proceed.

Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95

1999-03-30 Thread Andrei Ivanov
Are you using exactly the same setup as before? Also, make sure that lilo actually runs without any warnings/errors. ANdrew --- Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354

Re: ps vs free again

1999-03-30 Thread David Z. Maze
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SZ I just tried top, but it seems it is showing the same info as free SZ which is included the memory cached but can be freed if another SZ program requests in the memory used section. SZ SZ What I want to know is the exact amount memory used by system, I SZ

what exactly is a segmentation fault?

1999-03-30 Thread rich
Howdy all, I have just tried my 1st attempt at installing a non-debian package (multitrack-2.2.tgz). I followed the instructions... - place file in /usr/local - tar xvfz multitrack-2.2.tgz - cd multitrack-2.2 - make install When I tried to run the program (by typing multitrack), I get a

Y2K

1999-03-30 Thread CSR de Port-au-Prince
I get a Slackware 2.0.29 Kernel of Linux. I'd like to know if it's Y2K. If not which version is Y2K. Thank you to answer me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Reynold GUERRIER begin: vcard fn: CSR de Port-au-Prince n: ;CSR de Port-au-Prince org:Agence

Help bootable cd

1999-03-30 Thread Brian Schramm
I need fast help here. I would like to make a cdrom that I have bootable and run a certian command on bootup. I would also like to have a floppy that will boot from and run just like the cd will. This is for restoring an image file (dd) from the cd to the machine automaticly. I have Debian as

Slink upgrade and /usr/local problems locating libs!

1999-03-30 Thread Person, Roderick
Hey guys, Since I have upgraded to slink I have noticed that when I unzip certain tars in /usr/local the binaries seem to have trouble finding the required libs. For example, Wingz3 can't find libXpm.so.4 although it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. Wingz3 worked with hamm. Has there been some kind of

Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95

1999-03-30 Thread Paolo Comi
Jeff Hill wrote: After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help -- machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess with the MBR, but not

Re: Mount for normal user

1999-03-30 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Mar 29, 1999 at 02:25:41PM +0200, Sami Dalouche wrote: [some stuff] However, How to remove user from groups (without VI) and is there a way to have all root permission without being root (UID 0) because some programs don't want to run as root ? You should look into the sudo command.

Re: Slink upgrade and /usr/local problems locating libs!

1999-03-30 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
Hey guys, Since I have upgraded to slink I have noticed that when I unzip certain tars in /usr/local the binaries seem to have trouble finding the required libs. For example, Wingz3 can't find libXpm.so.4 although it is in /usr/X11R6/lib. Wingz3 worked with hamm. Has there been some

Re: what exactly is a segmentation fault?

1999-03-30 Thread shaleh
When I tried to run the program (by typing multitrack), I get a segmentation fault error... I have heard this phrase before, but do not know what it means... can anyone help, or at least point me in the right direction? A segmentation fault means that the program made an illegal memory

Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95

1999-03-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95 Date: Tue, Mar 30, 1999 at 07:50:27AM -0500 In reply to:Jeff Hill Quoting Jeff Hill([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian

Re: ppp0

1999-03-30 Thread Chen Xu
Hi John, Thanks for your help, really. I actually did run pppconfig and answered the questions, but still not working. I suspect maybe there is something to do with my modem port. My modem is on COM4 and IRQ is 10. As defuelt, the IRQ asigned for COM4 may be different. I did 'setserial -b

printing quality

1999-03-30 Thread Micha Feigin
I have a problem with printing quality under debian. I am using an epson lx 300 dot matrix printer (i know that windows it can work also as epson lx800 lx810 jx80 - i may be missing a bit on the letters). the problem is that under linux when not printing unformated text ot from netscape i get

modules package

1999-03-30 Thread Will Lowe
dselect lists the modules package as obsolete/local -- I sure didn't package it, so it must be obsolete. But dpkg -r modules reports Kernel was compiled with module support! Can't remove modules package!. Is it ok to --force this one?

Re: No LILO Boot after Re-Install Windoze95

1999-03-30 Thread Jeff Hill
No changes to the setup and my bios is set to boot a,c. I had lilo boot windows at /dev/hda4 and slink at /dev/hda1. Everything was running well, except that I had to re-install Windows. I booted to Windows, went to command prompt, re-installed Windows, then rebooted. I expected lilo to be

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