Re: make-kpkg y m'odulos

1999-04-05 Thread Antonio Gonz'alez Fern'andez
Antonio Gonz'alez Fern'andez wrote: Tengo un problemilla y en la documentación no encuentro solución. He compilado un núcleo 2.2.0 en un pentium. La secuencia ha sido make xconfig make-kpkg clean LC_ALL=C fakeroot make-kpkg --revision=minitrini.1.0. kernel_image Todo perfecto,

[no subject]

1999-04-05 Thread Ángel Carrasco
Hola amigos!!! Utilizo la debian 2.1 con el kernel 2.0.36 y las xfree86 3.3.2. He instalado una tarjeta grfica Intel 740 y tengo el siguiente problema. No aparece por ninguna parte. Entonces, decidi bajarme los nuevos xservers, pero las webs de Xfree, X y X11 estan organizadas de forma

problema con xmcd

1999-04-05 Thread Fernando
Hola: Seguimos cacharreando por aqui y ahora le toca a los CD Tengo en un ordenador un cdrom IDE ATAPI y una grabadora también IDE. Tenia el kernel 2.0.34 y me actualice al 2.0.36 para poder utilizar la grabadora, lo recompile con emulación de SCSI y sin soporte IDE ATAPI. Tengo acceso a los

¿Cómo hago aliasing con 2.2.5?

1999-04-05 Thread PoNY
Saludos: He pasado a 2.2.5 y no me funciona el aliasing en mi interfaz de red. He incluido la opción en la compilación, la asignación de IPs en /etc/init.d/network y nada. ¿Hay algo que se me escapa? MUCHAS gracias. PoNY'99

Re: Acentos, eñes y demás zarandajas...

1999-04-05 Thread homega
Javier Ramirez dixit: ¡Hola! Tengo instalada la debian 2.0 y en el /etc/profile tengo lo siguiente: export LC_MESSAGES=es_ES export LANG=es_ES export LESSCHARSET=latin1 export LC_CTYPE=es_ES.ISO8859-1 export MM_CHARSET=ISO-8859-1 Así consigo utilizar acentos(*), eñes y demás

automatizar el correo con /etc/ip.up

1999-04-05 Thread homega
Hola, en /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ creé un fichero simplemente con el comando `runq -v', y así conseguí que enviara todo el correo en cola cada vez que me conecto, aunque no lo hace en modo verboso; también añadí al mismo fichero el comando `fetchmail -v -a -u id_usuario', pero éste no funciona para

Paquetes no main

1999-04-05 Thread Angel Vicente Perez
Hola a todos ¿Que opciones habria que pasar a dpkg, para que me de los paquetes instalados, de las secciones contrib y non-free? Con dpkg -l no se puede hacer esta seleccion. Saludos.

Re: sobre la relase del 2.1

1999-04-05 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 08:37:25PM +0200, Alvaro Alea wrote: BUENOS DIAS!!! hace poco, lei un mail donde comentaba que los cambios entre relases de debian venian indicados en un fichero Changelog , asi que mosqueado, ( me acabo de bajar las cuatro imagenes de CD de un mirror ) conecto y

Re: Paquetes no main

1999-04-05 Thread Santiago Vila
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Angel Vicente Perez wrote: ¿Que opciones habria que pasar a dpkg, para que me de los paquetes instalados, de las secciones contrib y non-free? Con dpkg -l no se puede hacer esta seleccion. A mí sí me funciona: # dpkg -l | grep unzip ii unzip 5.32-1

Re: automatizar el correo con /etc/ip.up

1999-04-05 Thread Luis Clausell
Yep! El Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 11:58:42AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: en /etc/ppp/ip-up.d/ creé un fichero simplemente con el comando `runq -v', y así conseguí que enviara todo el correo en cola cada vez que me conecto, aunque no lo hace en modo verboso; también añadí al mismo fichero

Re:

1999-04-05 Thread Mikel Martinez
At 07:43 05/04/99 +0200, Ángel Carrasco wrote: Hola amigos!!! Hola, qué tal? Utilizo la debian 2.1 con el kernel 2.0.36 y las xfree86 3.3.2. He instalado una tarjeta graacute;fica Intel 740 y tengo el siguiente problema. No aparece por ninguna parte. Entonces, decidi A mi me pasaba lo

RE: ¿Cómo hago aliasing con 2.2.5?

1999-04-05 Thread PoNY
# -Mensaje original- # De: PoNY [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] # Enviado el: lunes 5 de abril de 1999 10:47 # Para: Lista-Debian # Asunto: ¿Cómo hago aliasing con 2.2.5? # # # Saludos: # # He pasado a 2.2.5 y no me funciona el aliasing en mi # interfaz de red. He # incluido la

Replicar una máquina

1999-04-05 Thread Han Solo
Hola a todos. Dentro de poco me va a tocar montar una máquina con distintos servicios y su réplica. De lo que se trata es de montar un servidor con un gemelo, de manera que si uno cae, el otro sea capaz de retomar el servicio de modo transpareante. Hasta ahora hemos estado utilizando el paquete

Suck en Debian

1999-04-05 Thread Han Solo
Hola a todos. Configurando inn*suck en debian, he ido pasando los paquetes de configuración que ya tenía funcionando perfectamente con RedHat, pero cuando le ha tocado el turno a Suck me he encontrado con un problema. Resulta que el script /usr/lib/suck/get.news.innxmit, que es el encargado de

AWE64 pnp

1999-04-05 Thread Miguel Angel Velando
Hola a todos, Soy nuevo en Linux y estoy tratando de reemplazar mi W95. No he tenido mayores inconvenientes con la instalacion las X 3.3.3.1, WordPerfect8, Netscape 4.08, etc pero no consigo hacer funcionar la placa de sonido Soundblaster AWE64 PnP. Alguien ha tenido alguna experiencia

leafnode+slrn

1999-04-05 Thread Juanjo Martinez
Hola a todos/as: Uso leafnode+slrn para las news pero resulta que no puedo enviar los mensajes a los grupos porque slrn intenta hacerlo inmediatamente, por lo que cuando no hay conexión se aborta el proceso. ¿Cómo puedo corregir esto? Para leer las news que me bajo con leafnode uso 'slrn

Ajustar la hora del sistema a la hardware

1999-04-05 Thread Oscar Ferrero Guerra
Hola a todos: Estoy hecho un lio con el tema de la hora en linux-debian. Mi reloj del sistema va ahora 2 horas adelantado respecto al reloj hardware. ¿Dónde se cambia la configuración del GMT? ¿O simplemente quito del init.d (hwclock.sh) el parámetro --utc ? Lo digo porque cuando ejecuto hwclock

Re: Quitar xdm del arranque

1999-04-05 Thread Hue-Bond
El domingo 04 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 13:44:26 -0500, Ing. Ramon Solano Barajas contaba: La forma mas directa es cambiar el nivel de ejecucion del Sistema. Los diferentes niveles los puedes encontrar listados en el /etc/inittab; por lo que veo debes estar en el nivel 5 (X11), y para lo que

Re: smail 3.2

1999-04-05 Thread Hue-Bond
El sábado 03 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 12:37:46 +0200, Juanjo Martinez contaba: 3,23,43 * * * * runq en fin, que esta claro, pero ese fichero advierte que no se edite a mano sino que se edite el 'master' y se reinstale... :-?... pero que se reinstale ¿el que? ¿smail? No lo

Re: Acentos, eñes y demás zarandajas...

1999-04-05 Thread Hue-Bond
El lunes 05 de abril de 1999 a la(s) 11:53:04 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] contaba: (*) Los acentos me funcionan sólo con minúsculas, no con mayúsculas? Á É Í Ó Ú ... a mí también, excepto con la E mayúscula. Cosa de la fuente. El tilde está ahí, pero no se ve. -- Just do it. David

Re: Ainda libc6 - era [Fwd: Re: [linuxclub] - libc6]

1999-04-05 Thread Hernan Joel Cervantes Rodriguez
SP, lun abr 5 09:32:54 EST 1999 Itamar : edita o arquivo /etc/ld.so.conf (olha que é no diretorio /etc y não no /target/etc) e adiciona as linhas : /target/lib /target/usr/lib e roda /target/sbin/ldconfig Aí ele começa a dizer que não consegue encontrar

Re: Ainda libc6

1999-04-05 Thread Itamar
Oi Hernán, não deu certo ainda :-((( Vou lhes dizer o que deu certo até agora e como fiz: - Dando boot com o CD binary, saio para o console (ALT+F2)(este roda o ash) - monto a partição root (em /target0 e o CD (em /instmnt) - crio o arquivo /etc/ld.so.conf com as linhas: /target/lib

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 13:06:47 -0600 (MDT), John Galt wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access to the other's machine, due to dynamic PPP

RE: netscape crashes on mail-to

1999-04-05 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, if you ftp to ftp.netscape.com and go to: /pub/communicator/4.51/english/unsupported/linux20_glibc2/navigator_standalone/ I beleive you would find what you are looking for. On 04-Apr-99 Pollywog wrote: I want to try 4.51 but cannot find a glibc version, only libc5. -- Andrew

Maito: Getting Navigator to use external mailer

1999-04-05 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, how can I get Navigator (4.51) to use my (or any!) external mailer (XFmail) when I click on a mailto: link? TIA --- Regards, Christian Dysthe Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bigfoot.com/~cdysthe UIN 3945810 Date: 04-Apr-99 Time: 18:21:07 This message was

Re: Mutt 0.95.4-0.1 and slang

1999-04-05 Thread Damir J. Naden
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Hi there, I'm currently using Mutt 0.93i and would like to upgrade to 0.95.4-0.1, which I ftp'ed. The problem is that the dependencies for it are slang1 ( 1.3) and slang1 ( 1.2.2-0), whereas I only have

Tape Backup

1999-04-05 Thread eferen
I know there is a tape driver for the Colorado T1000 tape drive, but is there one that will work with the Colorado T3000? This must be a rather new unit, bcause I've been having quite problem getting it work even in Windows 95. Had to get a different windows driver for it. If anyone knows of

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Gary Singleton
--- George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote: --- John Galt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the accepted method of sending a file to a person that MUST not get into unfriendly hands, but needs to get between users that have no access

Using xawtv

1999-04-05 Thread Ramiel Givergis
I installed my WinTV card properly from the kernel 2.2.4 and dmesg shows: i2c: initialized Linux video capture interface: v1.00 bttv0: Brooktree Bt878 (rev 2) bus: 0, devfn: 80, irq: 9, memory: 0xffdfe000. bttv: 1 Bt8xx card(s) found. bttv0: Hauppauge eeprom: tuner=Philips FM1236 (2) bttv0:

Problems with Packard Bell

1999-04-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
Hi! I have just acquired in my possession a Packard Bell computer with a 1.2 GB hard drive and 72 MB of RAM. I am trying to load Debian on it. I downloaded the CD images from a cdimage.debian.org, and burned them with my cd-burner using xcdroast. I verified the images twice and used them to

Where's the HTML libc doc's ?

1999-04-05 Thread ivan
Hi :) I've searched and searched but I can't find the documentation for glibc in HTML format anywhere. The glibc-doc package claims to install both info HTML format but I can't find anything but info packages. Any ideas ? TIA Ivan.

Re: Where's the HTML libc doc's ?

1999-04-05 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 09:46 (+0800), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've searched and searched but I can't find the documentation for glibc in HTML format anywhere. The glibc-doc package claims to install both info HTML format but I can't find anything but info packages. Any ideas ? $ ls

ipchains

1999-04-05 Thread Pollywog
Is there a HOWTO that explains the use of IPCHAINS and how to do IP Masq with IPCHAINS? I am still using a 2.0.x kernel and I need to get ready to upgrade. thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: Where's the HTML libc doc's ?

1999-04-05 Thread ivan
Thanks Pann ! The only thing worse than being blind is having eyes but being unable to use them :) Ivan.

Weird behavior with GNOME

1999-04-05 Thread William R Pentney
My GNOME 1.0 runs all right, except that it takes an unusually long time to load, and the Control Center/Midnight Commander panels are slow to load. I thought little of this, until I noticed several recurring lines on my xconsole, including: Priority 50: Registering ID = ... Unable to connect to

can't find installer for Communicator

1999-04-05 Thread Pollywog
I have Netscape Communicator 4.51 but I am unable to find an installer for it. Has anyone seen such an animal? thanks -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: can't find installer for Communicator

1999-04-05 Thread ktb
Pollywog wrote: I have Netscape Communicator 4.51 but I am unable to find an installer for it. Has anyone seen such an animal? netscape4 in Opt contrib/ hth, Kent

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Stefan Nobis
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish What is your point? I never claimed unsolicited attachments Hamish were acceptable, only that solicited ones of any size should Hamish work. Then pay for it. The problem is not the transport but at your ISP. Your

Re: can't find installer for Communicator

1999-04-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
Pollywog wrote: I have Netscape Communicator 4.51 but I am unable to find an installer for it. Has anyone seen such an animal? Check out http://www.debian.org/Packages/stable/web/netscape4.html -- __ _ Mark Wagnon Debian GNU/ -o) / /

no glibc netscape

1999-04-05 Thread Pollywog
I thought I downloaded a glibc version of Netscape 4.51 and now I find that I do not. I should have been more careful downloading and now I will have to see if I can reinstall the old one, the one with the mailto bug :( -- Andrew [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37]

Re: Problems with Packard Bell

1999-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Pitts writes: I started installing the standard packages when the CD drive crapped out. How old is the CD drive? I've found that some old drives don't like CD-R's. They will start out reading them ok, but get flaky as they warm up. -- John HaslerThis posting is in the

Re: no glibc netscape

1999-04-05 Thread ktb
Pollywog wrote: I thought I downloaded a glibc version of Netscape 4.51 and now I find that I do not. I should have been more careful downloading and now I will have to see if I can reinstall the old one, the one with the mailto bug :( -- Andrew If your still looking,

ppp/modem problems .. suggestions?

1999-04-05 Thread ferret
Interesting little problem here. I have two machines, one at work, one at home, both running slink. As far as I know, both systems are running the same package versions for everything installed (Synced from Slink CD and www.us.debian.org using APT) and both have kernel 2.2.2 from

Mouse Trouble

1999-04-05 Thread Greg Scharrer
I am having trouble getting my mouse to work. I have a PS/2 mouse port on COM1 (IRQ4). When the system boots is gives a message psaux PS/2 auxillary pointing device detected ... driver installed. The node /dev/psaux has a major 10 and minor 1, which is what the Busmouse HOWTO says it should.

mirror only resumes with timeouts not if its killed

1999-04-05 Thread John Leget
hi all, Im using mirror to keep up with potato , and a few other bits and pieces. My PC is set to fire up at night connect and do its thing. Now I recently happen to notice that mirror actually resumed a file major suprise here i had never seen it do that before. I had a look at the code ( eek i

Re: Mouse Trouble

1999-04-05 Thread ktb
Greg Scharrer wrote: I am having trouble getting my mouse to work. I have a PS/2 mouse port on COM1 (IRQ4). When the system boots is gives a message psaux PS/2 auxillary pointing device detected ... driver installed. The node /dev/psaux has a major 10 and minor 1, which is what the Busmouse

Re: no glibc netscape

1999-04-05 Thread Pollywog
On 05-Apr-99 ktb wrote: Pollywog wrote: I thought I downloaded a glibc version of Netscape 4.51 and now I find that I do not. I should have been more careful downloading and now I will have to see if I can reinstall the old one, the one with the mailto bug :( -- Andrew If your

Re: no glibc netscape

1999-04-05 Thread ktb
Pollywog wrote: On 05-Apr-99 ktb wrote: Pollywog wrote: I thought I downloaded a glibc version of Netscape 4.51 and now I find that I do not. I should have been more careful downloading and now I will have to see if I can reinstall the old one, the one with the mailto bug :( --

Re: no glibc netscape

1999-04-05 Thread Ian Peters
On Mon, Apr 05, 1999 at 03:16:11AM -, Pollywog wrote: ftp.netscape.com/pub/communicator/4.51/english/unix/unsupported/linux20-glibc 2/ I believe that is where I downloaded, but it did not appear to be glibc because there was no glibc in the filename as is the susal custom. The

Ethics Violation in XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Jesse Gilman
I am a Debian user. Doesn't Debian have an ethics policy? What about software, even free software, whose technical documentation plainly and bluntly lies about its capabilities? I refer to XFree86's pervasively well-documented feature of supporting multiheaded (multiple monitored) systems. I

ip-down does not stop ip-up's run-parts on disconnect

1999-04-05 Thread John Leget
Hi, ip-down does not stop ip-up.d's run-parts When ip-up runs it runs the scripts in ip-up.d using run-parts. This isn't working to well with me as i have several scripts in ip-up which run in sequence - one after the other. Thus if my line goes down my ip-down.d kills the current running script

Re: no glibc netscape

1999-04-05 Thread Pollywog
You must have the right file then. You just rename it adding glibc2 like, communicator-v451-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.tar.gz to communicator-v451-export.x86-unknown-linux2.0.glibc2.tar.gz then install with netscape4. I wondered if that would work. If I can find it still in my

Re: Mouse Trouble

1999-04-05 Thread Greg Scharrer
Kent, I booted from the Debian install CD and used Alt-F2 to get to a console after I mounted /dev/hdb1. Then I rename XF86config and rebooted. That got me back to a console. I will stay away from X until I get the mouse figured out. Thank you for the prompt reply. Greg At 10:17 PM 4/4/99

Re: Ethics Violation in XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 05 Apr 1998 23:29:53 -0400, Jesse Gilman wrote: What about software, even free software, whose technical documentation plainly and bluntly lies about its capabilities? I refer to XFree86's pervasively well-documented feature of supporting

Re: Potato and egcs

1999-04-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 12:18:50AM -0800, George Bonser wrote: Ok, whose big idea was it not to provide a real gcc in potato? Maybe it is me but I couldn't find one. I did an auto-upgrade and broke my ability to compile 2.0.27-pre kernels cleanly. I don't mind being offered egcs but I

Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's run-parts on disconnect

1999-04-05 Thread shaleh
Hi, ip-down does not stop ip-up.d's run-parts WHy not attack this the other way. If the device goes down while we are still running ip-up scripts, let the scripts fail. something like: if ppp0 works || exit 0 do script work That way, your ip-down scripts can run and not care.

Re: Slink Install: Kernel Unpacking Sound Problems

1999-04-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Sat, Apr 03, 1999 at 09:51:44AM +0200, John Stevenson wrote: Hello, I have to problems that I think may be related. 1) I installed slink from scratch on a Dell Laptop (which worked using hamm) and selected the source for kernel 2.0.36. When I went to the /usr/src directory, I fount

Re: processing makefile.in

1999-04-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 11:29:20PM -0800, Micha Feigin wrote: With what am i suposed to process a makefile.in (tried using make -f , and i get an answear: makefile.in:362 *** missing seperator. (I downloaded this from cvs and it's the first time i'm tring this so maybe it's just not supposed

Debian install on blank HD

1999-04-05 Thread Mike Glass
Hi. I'd like to install Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of my 386DX-40, which has been wiped clean. I can't boot from the CD-Rom, and am having some major problems getting it to work. Any suggestions? -Mike

Re: Exim Mail filters for Macro and other VIRUS?

1999-04-05 Thread Stephen Pitts
On Fri, Apr 02, 1999 at 10:21:04PM -0700, Kent Andersen wrote: does anyone know or have an idea of what I need to put on EXIM to filter for macro viruses and other pestelance like happy99? It would be really cool to catch that at the transport agent and trash it then. Thanks in advance! Kent

Re: Using xawtv

1999-04-05 Thread Syrus Nemat-Nasser
On Sun, 4 Apr 1999, Ramiel Givergis wrote: and when I run xawtv from xterm logged in as root or any other user I get: home:~# xawtv this is xawtv-2.19 sh: v4l-conf: command not found v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway DGA: server=1.0, include=1.0 VidMode: server=0.8,

Re: Debian install on blank HD

1999-04-05 Thread ktb
Mike Glass wrote: Hi. I'd like to install Debian 2.0 on the hard drive of my 386DX-40, which has been wiped clean. I can't boot from the CD-Rom, and am having some major problems getting it to work. Any suggestions? -Mike I've only done cdrom installations so far but have you checked out

xmcd problems

1999-04-05 Thread wax_man
It appears that xmcd is not completely setting itself up. When I try to run progs that want to use the cddb part of it, they complain that XMCD_LIBDIR is not setup. What should this variable be set to? TIA, Chris

Re: Good MP3 encoder

1999-04-05 Thread Jesse Lee
bladeenc is the best. its been ported to linux. I cant remember the url. just do a search and you should be able to find it easy enough - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, April 03, 1999 1:46 PM Subject: Good

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 11:06:32AM +0200, Stefan Nobis wrote: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hamish What is your point? I never claimed unsolicited attachments Hamish were acceptable, only that solicited ones of any size should Hamish work. Then

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 06:22:59AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: On Sun, 4 Apr 1999 23:10:08 +1000 (EST), Jiri Baum wrote: Everyone knows that you shouldn't in general send files over about 50 KB (or at least everyone that's read RFC 1855). Everyone knows you shouldn't send large amounts of

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 08:46:04AM -0700, Gary Singleton wrote: No they don't! My wife routinely gets attachments in the 300-600K range from her friend back home. Yesterday, her friend sent a couple of files called something like easterbunny.exe both about 1.5M. Obviously this is a

ip-up for each user?

1999-04-05 Thread Robbie Huffman
I'm currently looking for a way to have a per-user version of ip-up. For example, I'd like to start fetchmail if it isn't running already and execute a few pilot programs. But this sort of thing doesn't seem to belong in the systemwide ip-up file. I know I can hack together something which would

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 02:45:33PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Look at the Linux package sendfile and the preliminary draft of the RFC for the saft profocol. The way it works is this: I send a file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Curious. The long-gone ACSnet (Australian Computer Society network)

KDE 1.1

1999-04-05 Thread Michael Beattie
Anyone else having trouble with kfm? I cant get it to display directories, nor can I delete things on the desktop? ANY clues? Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with pgpkey as subject.

Re: KDE 1.1

1999-04-05 Thread Alec Smith
When I was using KDE, I didn't have trouble with it. I will however admit I didn't use it for long before I broke down and learned how to setup the fvwm2 menus, etc. On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Michael Beattie wrote: Anyone else having trouble with kfm? I cant get it to display directories, nor

Re: Apt: WAS:: GNOME 1.0 .deb package?

1999-04-05 Thread Michael Beattie
[snip] The frontend is not done yet but the backend and APT dselect method are quite functional. Yes, you should install it. Get the latest version from potato(0.3.3) if you are running slink, it does not depened on glibc2.1 so it is safe to install manually [take with a pinch of salt] I

help with timezone

1999-04-05 Thread Linh Dang
I installed glibc2.1 and it tell me that it conflicts with timezones. Fine, I purge timezones. But now when I type `date', I get: Mon Apr 5 02:20:09 /etc/localtime 1999 Fair enough, I rerun tzconfig. But the result is even worse. timezone now thinks that my clock is set to GMT time, so date's

Printing Problem

1999-04-05 Thread Mark Wagnon
It seems that I have broken my printing capability. When trying to print from various programs I get: connection to 'localhost' failed - Connection timed out job 'cfA492korn' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed Today I set up Debian to use my cable modem. Could this have something to do

XF86Setup

1999-04-05 Thread Jelmar Andree
I installed 2.1 , therefore I used 2.0, I did not upgrade. then I wanted to install the X window system with XF86Setup ,as root,and I know what to choose and the entire procedure goes well but there is something not good.At the end after the last done and okay I get the message:

Re: Where does my mail go?

1999-04-05 Thread Jay Barbee
Hi, I have changed from using fetchmail/elm to using fetchmail/mutt, but now can not find the messages fetchmail receives. When I start Mutt, it goes to the /var/spool/mail/username box. Mutt claims this box is empty. When I change to ~/Mail/inbox, mutt also can not find any messages.

Re: Ethics Violation in XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Branden Robinson
I need not add much to what Steve Lamb said on this subject, but it sounds to me like you have confused XFree86 with the Open Group, and specifically the latter's release of X11R6.4, which supports the XINERAMA extension for multi-head support. XFree86 4.0 will be based on X11R6.4. They might

Dselect doesn't seem to work

1999-04-05 Thread James L. Hurlburt
Sirs: I read about slink on the news sites and decided to give it a try. I have an new hard drive on my machine for Debian, so it has it's own 4.3G hard drive to play with. At the moment, I am booting from a floppy -- when I get the system going to suit me, I will probably go to a dual boot with

Re: Mouse Trouble

1999-04-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Greg Scharrer wrote: I am having trouble getting my mouse to work. I have a PS/2 mouse port on COM1 (IRQ4). When the system boots is gives a message psaux PS/2 auxillary pointing device detected ... driver installed. The node /dev/psaux has a major 10 and minor 1, which is what the

Re: ip-up for each user?

1999-04-05 Thread Oliver Elphick
Robbie Huffman wrote: I'm currently looking for a way to have a per-user version of ip-up. For example, I'd like to start fetchmail if it isn't running already and execute a few pilot programs. But this sort of thing doesn't seem to belong in the systemwide ip-up file. I know I can hack

popclient: socket error

1999-04-05 Thread Johann Spies
What causes the error in the subject line? Johann -- | Johann Spies Windsorlaan 19 | | [EMAIL PROTECTED]3201 Pietermaritzburg | | Tel/Faks Nr. +27

Re: XF86Setup

1999-04-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Apr 1999q, Jelmar Andree wrote: I installed 2.1 , therefore I used 2.0, I did not upgrade. then I wanted to install the X window system with XF86Setup ,as root,and I know what to choose and the entire procedure goes well but there is something not good.At the end after the last done and

How do I install Debian?

1999-04-05 Thread Johann Spies
I feel embarrassed to ask this because I have done it before but now nothing seems to work. I have tried Debian 1.3.1 and Hamm , both from official CD's and with the same problem in both instances. I want to do a new installation on a Pentium 166. My problem is that after the initial reboot

Re: Help with Netscape

1999-04-05 Thread Shao Zhang
Yes. I have. Dpkg --list shows Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription

disabling X connections from a remote systems

1999-04-05 Thread Ramakrishnan M
I have a computer here,which is relatively slow one.Recently I noticed that people from other labs are logging in and exporting display and using netscape.I would like to disable this without using xhost - .What files should I modify TIA -- Ramakrishnan M --

Re: vi in Debian (slink)

1999-04-05 Thread Shao Zhang
/usr/bin/vi should alwasy point to /etc/alternatives/vi you can modify the link to make /etc/alternatives/vi points to /usr/bin/vim then your vi should fire up vim. Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _

Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Antonio Ullan
Paul Lowe wrote: Antonio Ullán wrote: Hello: My PC is running slink. I just have installed a SiS6326 AGP video card and I don't know how can I to configure X-Window. I have intented with XF86_SVGA server but only I get 320x200 resolution and Ctrl-Alt-+, Ctrl-Alt-- dont't work. Can

Re: How do I install Debian?

1999-04-05 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote: On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Johann Spies wrote: I feel embarrassed to ask this because I have done it before but now nothing seems to work. I have tried Debian 1.3.1 and Hamm , both from official CD's and with the same problem in both instances.

Re: Mutt 0.95.4-0.1 and slang

1999-04-05 Thread homega
Damir J. Naden dixit: Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED]; unless Mutt is confused, you wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dixit: Hi there, I'm currently using Mutt 0.93i and would like to upgrade to 0.95.4-0.1, which I ftp'ed. The problem is that the dependencies for it are slang1 ( 1.3) and slang1 (

Re: How do I install Debian?

1999-04-05 Thread Mark Ciciretti
If you install the vfat module it will allow you to access your MSDOS partition. Johann Spies wrote: I did not know about modconf. But when I run it on the newly installed base system, I get the same limited number of choices amongst the filesystem drivers of which isofs and msdos are not

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 5 Apr 1999 14:43:46 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: The fact that these things are useless to you is seperate to their size. There are small, useless attachments just as much as their are large, useful ones. I don't think we should ignore large,

Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's run-parts on disconnect

1999-04-05 Thread John Hasler
John Leget writes: ip-down does not stop ip-up.d's run-parts Actually, the bug is in pppd: it will start ip-down while ip-up is still running. This is fixed in pppd-2.3.6, which is in unstable. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Automated installation, system verification

1999-04-05 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Hi At the moment I got the task to build a firewall using Linux. As I am using Debian for my desktop system for over an year, I want to use it for the firewall-basic-system, too. But I have 2 problems: 1. I need an automated installation of the system. It is important that the installation of

Alcune domande

1999-04-05 Thread Ercoles
Sono interessato a eqiupaggiare con Linux il mio attuale PC con Windows, a causa dei continui problemi in cui troppo spesso si incorre. Volevo, sapere se per convertire documenti .DOC da W95 ci sono problemi. Preciso che le estensioni dei documenti di cui sopra raggiunge 4 o 5 Mb. con immagini

Automated installation, system verification

1999-04-05 Thread Rene Mayrhofer
Please excuse the wrong email-address in the last email (Kmail trashed my settings). The correct address is mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rene

Re: ip-down does not stop ip-up's run-parts on disconnect

1999-04-05 Thread John Leget
Hmm no help here then im running 2.2.5-ac3, potato, and i see its up to version 2.3.7-2. I dont think that alone is the problem run-parts ( invoked in both ip-up and ip-down ) does of itself not exit until all the scripts it is trying to run finish. And since i have 3-4 doing various downloads

Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86

1999-04-05 Thread Ken McCord
Upgrade to XFree86 = 3.3.3 to get Sis6326 support. Ken -Original Message- From: Antonio Ullan [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul Lowe [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday, April 05, 1999 5:48 AM Subject: Re: SiS6326 chip and XFree86 Paul

Re: Ethics Violation in XFree86 (also: What do YOU lose with Linux)

1999-04-05 Thread Jerzy Kakol
-Original Message- From: Jesse Gilman [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sunday, April 04, 1999 10:34 PM Subject: Ethics Violation in XFree86 lies about its capabilities? I refer to XFree86's pervasively well-documented feature of

Re: What DO you lose with Linux ???

1999-04-05 Thread Gary Singleton
--- Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Apr 04, 1999 at 02:45:33PM -0700, George Bonser wrote: Look at the Linux package sendfile and the preliminary draft of the RFC for the saft profocol. The way it works is this: I send a file to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Curious. The

Re: How do I install Debian? (solved)

1999-04-05 Thread Johann Spies
Thank you everybody for your help. I found my mistake. I never used Lilo before on a hard disk and on this computer the creation of a boot floppy failed consistently so I used another computer's vmlinuz in combination with loadlin to reboot. As an act of desperation, I made the hard disk

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