Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-20 Thread Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira
Oi, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 08:24:53AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: também. Queremos traduzir os info's e man's e a descrição dos pacotes. Faz sentido traduzir descricoes de pacotes agora? Quero dizer, primeiro o dpkg tem q

Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-20 Thread !kov
No momento nao sei se posso ser muito util pq meu tempo anda meio limitado... to fazendo curso de C e entaum fico grande parte do meu tempo estudando e realizando projetos de parceria mas assim que tiver uma folguinha posso dar uma ajuda na tradução ou em alguma outra tarefa... espero poder

Re: Estou preparando uma revista

1999-05-20 Thread Jose Carlos Benfati
On Sat, May 15, 1999 at 08:24:53AM -0300, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: também. Queremos traduzir os info's e man's e a descrição dos pacotes. Faz sentido traduzir descricoes de pacotes agora? Quero dizer, primeiro o dpkg tem q aceitar descricoes

ATENCAO: StarOffice 5.1 esta liberado!!!

1999-05-20 Thread Clovis Sena
Boa tarde, Vi no http://www.linuxtoday.com que esta liberada a nova versao do startoffice. O StartOffice 5.1 esta disponivel em http://www.startdivision.com. T+ Clovis Sena

RES: ATENCAO: StarOffice 5.1 esta liberado!!!

1999-05-20 Thread Leandro Dutra
Vi no http://www.linuxtoday.com que esta liberada a nova versao do startoffice. O StartOffice 5.1 esta disponivel em http://www.startdivision.com. Uma pena que só existe pra InHell... Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra Amdocs (Brasil) Ltda

Re: can't get xdm to load.

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MC == Monte Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MC Checking for valid XFree86 server configuration file not found. MC xdm failed to load. In my /etc/init.d/xdm, this error message is generated when /etc/X11/XF86Config is not present. Is it there? Ciao, Martin

All packages Obsolete/local in dselect?

1999-05-20 Thread Pete Harlan
Hi, All of my installed packages show up as Obsolete/local packages when using dselect: --- Obsolete/local Required packages in section base --- *** Req base adduser 3.8 none *** Req base ae 962-21.1none *** Req base base-files 2.1.0

counts needed

1999-05-20 Thread Kerry
I do not need names but I do need every address for walk sequence mailing discounts. Call me if you have any questions at (208) 357-7391 and ask for Kerry, or fax information to (208) 357-5317. The total number needed should be around 6000-6500 address's according to the Post Office. This

tty problems

1999-05-20 Thread Max
I'm running the latest version of potato and I get the following problem chinook:~ finger finger: /dev//ttydirs/xxx/xx: No such file or directory Login Name Tty Idle Login Time Office Office Phone maxk Max Kamenetskydi 1:06 May 19 12:47 (:0.0) This

Re: Location of single file (zip) install file for Debian...

1999-05-20 Thread Dartmeistr
In a message dated 5/19/99 3:31:41 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 19 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Group: I was very interested in installing the Debian distribution of Linux, and have been trying to download it for a little while now. Was

Re: Agggh! can't start new GNOME for slink

1999-05-20 Thread Ossama Othman
Hi Martin, On 19 May, Martin Bialasinski wrote: Ossama, could you place a big note at the beginning of /usr/doc/imlib_base/README.Debian ? I did. I just haven't uploaded a new set of packages yet since I've been waiting for a new imlib release. It doesn't seem like that is going to happen

lp0 problem

1999-05-20 Thread Jaroslaw Berezowski
Hey. After switching from 2.0.36 to 2.2.5 I've lost the lp support working. Copying into /dev/lp0 causes deadlock of executing process. Here are some config infos: *** #dmesg snip parport0: PC-style at 0x378, irq 7, dma 3 [SPP,PS2] lp0: using parport0

apt-get and two cds

1999-05-20 Thread Matt Garman
I downloaded and burned my own official Debian Slink 2.1 cds. There are two binary cds. I downloaded these while at school while I had an ultra-fast connection so that I can use apt-get on the cdrom, rather over the much slower (and costly) modem. My question -- I have been successful

Re: NIS and /etc/group

1999-05-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
Take a look at /var/yp/Makefile on your NIS server. There's a variable in there: MINGID=??? Which defines the group id below which entries will be ignored. The dialout group is 20 and this is probably lower than the MINGID in /var/yp/Makefile. You can change MINGID and re-make or create a new

Re: Location of single file (zip) install file for Debian...

1999-05-20 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated 5/19/99 3:31:41 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 19 May 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Group: I was very interested in installing the Debian distribution of Linux, and have been trying to download it for a

cron daemon -- suidmanager and cfengine errors

1999-05-20 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi all: I've been getting the following messages from cron daemon: /etc/cron.daily/cfengine: cf:main:/etc/cfengine/cfengine.conf:26: parse error cfengine:main::26: Warning: actionsequence is empty cfengine:main::26: Warning: perhaps cfengine.conf has not yet been set up?

Re[2]: minicom - dumb terminal?

1999-05-20 Thread Bob Bernstein
Ookhoi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Has anyone used minicom to provide a dumb terminal using a null modem cable? Yes. I wanted to be able to compile and test a kernel on a remote Linux server, so I had to be able to use Lilo in case the fresh kernel couldn't boot the machine. Wow, what a

packets hanging diald

1999-05-20 Thread Bob Billson
Hi... Well, this seems to be the time for PPP problems, so here's my contribution. :-) I got around to installing diald and using Debian's pon/poff for the last 2 weeks. It very well with one exception. It won't drop the link. It appears that either Debian or my provider is expecting me to

Re: PPP troubles.....

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
MB == Mitch Blevins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: MB For step nine, edit the /etc/ppp/peers/provider file, replacing their MB chat line with: MB connect /usr/sbin/chat -v -f /etc/chatscripts/provider Additionally, the +ua will not work with the pppd available in slink. Thisoption has been

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-20 Thread Ben Lutgens
True security must begin with the Physical Security of the box itself. One can remove removable disk drives like CDROM, Floppy, Zip etc but anyone could still use a paralel port drive etc, but each step you take helps. Just my two cents. Ben

StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Bernard de Rubinat
StarOffice 5.1 (just released) works with potato. When you install, it will complain that it does not find glibc 2.0.7, just ignore as you have glibc 2.1 (with potato). Best regards, Bernard On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 01:03 -0500, Brad Jorsch wrote: Before i begin, please CC all replies to my

Equivs and Mail problem

1999-05-20 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, I wanted to get rid of exim install qmail. I didn't want to use the qmail src deb, because it's only 1.02, so I got the source and compiled it myself. Now, obviously a lot of things are going to complain loudly if I get rid of my MTA, so acting on something I saw on the list, I used

RE: Separate list for newbies

1999-05-20 Thread Matt Kokidko
I COMPLETELY agree. I am a total newbie, but I fortunately know a friend who has used linux since he was five(many years) and gives me lots of help. Also, I have posted several questions here and have found an overwhelming desire to help, whereas in most newsgoups one would be flamed. Thanks

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1999-05-20 Thread David Mackenzie
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Re: Equivs and Mail problem

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
DM == Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DM Why am I getting all those unresolved dependencies? I thought that DM was what equivs was for? The version in slink does not work well with apt. You installed a new equivs package with different dependencies, but there is a equivs with the same

RE: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Bernard de Rubinat wrote: StarOffice 5.1 (just released) works with potato. When you install, it will complain that it does not find glibc 2.0.7, just ignore as you have glibc 2.1 (with potato). So this new SO works with glibc2? I will try to find StarOffice URL and see if I can

fetchmail problems

1999-05-20 Thread Matt Garman
Hello: I've had fetchmail working beautifully for a while now. Out of nowhwere, having done nothing to my system, fetchmail suddenly is broken! Here is my ~/.fetchmailrc poll students.uiuc.edu proto imap user username pass password no flush fetchall smtp localhost And when I try to execute

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RE: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Bernard de Rubinat wrote: StarOffice 5.1 (just released) works with potato. When you install, it will complain that it does not find glibc 2.0.7, just ignore as you have glibc 2.1 (with potato). I just found the download site, but it is closed for a day or so. -- Andrew

RE: fetchmail problems

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Matt Garman wrote: Also -- I'm running Exim, and have been for quite a while. I did a little snooping on DejaNews, and folks usually say that sendmail needs to be running... I don't have a sendmail process, but does exim create one anyway? I am not running Sendmail, just Exim

Re: cron daemon -- suidmanager and cfengine errors

1999-05-20 Thread Lazarus Long
On Wednesday, May 19, 1999 at 20:41:57 -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Gnus/5.070084 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.84) XEmacs/21.1 (20 Minutes to Nikko) X-UIDL: 24e3c1b866b50d40dbdaae05d5921bd5 /etc/cron.daily/cfengine: cfengine:main::26: Warning:

Re: Netelligent

1999-05-20 Thread Jon Middleton
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 05:49:09PM +0200, Markus Wollgarten wrote: Hello, is there someone how could tell us which device driver (available in the drivers floppy during installation from scratch) has to be used in order to get a compaq netelligent 10/100 PCI controller working in a compaq

Re: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Sean
no it's not, I'm downloading SO5.1 right now . . . I'm at 75% -- woo hoo! Sean Pollywog wrote: On 20-May-99 Bernard de Rubinat wrote: StarOffice 5.1 (just released) works with potato. When you install, it will complain that it does not find glibc 2.0.7, just ignore as you have glibc 2.1

Re: install guide.-- update

1999-05-20 Thread Koyote
Hmm, Seems I can not download the installation guide for slink. Seems I can browse through the sparc and alpha guides- it's just the i386 one I can't get to. -Koyote

help.dosemu!!!

1999-05-20 Thread Gancho Tenev
Hi debian user! I have installed dosemu 0.66.7-13 (DOS-emulator) from .deb packet comes withhamm (Debian 2.0). I start dosemu dos : #dosand under dos emulator i went to floppy a: C:a: and start cyrillic.com - this is TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) program thatmake me able to type

Re: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Oz Dror
Where are you downloading is from. On www.stardivision.com the download area is closed. Sean wrote: no it's not, I'm downloading SO5.1 right now . . . I'm at 75% -- woo hoo! Sean Pollywog wrote: On 20-May-99 Bernard de Rubinat wrote: StarOffice 5.1 (just released) works with potato.

icecast-server

1999-05-20 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 OK, has anyone been able to get the icecast-server package to work? I set it up, start shout, and it complains about not being able to make a directory. Really annoying. :/ - -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your

install guide.

1999-05-20 Thread Koyote
Hmm, Seems I can not download the installation guide for slink. explorer won't let me access it, either because it's not there at the moment, or because of language/security settings. I've been through my security settings, and I see no reason why it shouldn't work. Languages currently accepted

Re: lp0 problem

1999-05-20 Thread Adilson dos Santos Dantas
Try to compile and include the following modules in /etc/modules: parport_probe parport_pc parport paride lp Its works for me . []'s Adilson On 20 May 99, at 1:33, Jaroslaw Berezowski wrote: Hey. After switching from 2.0.36 to 2.2.5 I've lost the lp

modem speakerphone commands

1999-05-20 Thread Erhan Ince
Hi all, I have a 56K US robotics speakerphone modem. I am interested in activating the speakerphone or toggling it off using the modem commands from my visual basic program. I know how to use the MSCOMM port I just don't know how to activate/de-activate the speakerphone. Reason I want to do

Re: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread Alec Smith
Downloading from the German site works just fine once you realize the layout is the same, and once you decipher a few words. On Wed, 19 May 1999, Sean wrote: no it's not, I'm downloading SO5.1 right now . . . I'm at 75% -- woo hoo! Sean Pollywog wrote: On 20-May-99 Bernard de

Re: modem speakerphone commands

1999-05-20 Thread Rob
I am interested in activating the speakerphone or toggling it off using the modem commands from my visual basic program. I know how to use the MSCOMM port I just don't know how to activate/de-activate the speakerphone. Umm, isn't this the Debian list? Or did I miss the release of Visual

Re: modem speakerphone commands

1999-05-20 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, Erhan Ince wrote: Hi all, I have a 56K US robotics speakerphone modem. I am interested in activating the speakerphone or toggling it off using the modem commands from my visual basic program. I know how to use the MSCOMM port I just don't know how to

Re[2]: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

1999-05-20 Thread Phillip Deackes
Peter Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My box has even survived an incredible big mistake I just made. I was running as root, in /usr Instead of typing rm -r gimp* I typed rm -r * Thank goodness star office is big enough to get in the way of anything important being deleted before I realised my

Re: syslog: ----MARK---- ?

1999-05-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Try putting mark.none; in /etc/syslog.conf to turn this ``heartbeat'' off. My (vastly modified) syslog.conf is enclosed below which demonstrates usage. manoj # /etc/syslog.conf: syslogd(8) configuration file. # $Id: syslog.conf,v 3.3 1995/02/24 23:44:14 imurdock Exp $ #

Re: Basic SCSI question

1999-05-20 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Randy == Randy Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't have any experience with Linux and SCSI drives and was wondering if someone could give me some basic-level/newbie pointers on SCSI setup. The computer has an AdvanSys card in it and I've recompiled the

Re: StarOffice 5.1 SOLVES Glibc 2.1 (potato) incompatibility

1999-05-20 Thread ferret
Um... What browser are you using to get to it? Their site is lynx-hostile, AND uses javascript. w3-el running on xemacs20 can't handle the javascript, chimera2 has been loading the page for about five minutes so far and has displayed two very small scrollbars. Arena is indicating StarDivision

Re: Protecting root security

1999-05-20 Thread Tommy Malloy
Thanks to everyone for such informative responses. This list is like a school for System Administration. I hope that one day I able to pass on the knowledge I have gained here. Thanks again

Re: ESDI PS/2 MCA

1999-05-20 Thread D.L.Whiteley \(Dave\)
I am trying to re-use some old PS/2s that have become available. I am trying to install slink on them. As the PS/2 does not have a CD I need to do the initial installation from floppies. Have you tried just booting with the 2.1 rescue's default kernel? Yes, No go. I replaced the kernel

Re: gtk-themes problems

1999-05-20 Thread Graham Ashton
On Wednesday 19 May, Martin Bialasinski wrote: GA I've installed gtk-themes-0.5 from source, but can't get it to GA work properly. Try the gtk-engines-* packages available at deb http://www.debian.org/~jim/debian-gtk-gnome/gnome-stage-slink unstable main brilliant - it works a treat,

gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses

1999-05-20 Thread solomon
I'm running potato and till recently was running XDM with login.app to give the login screen a nice clean look. Then GDM (Gnome Display Manager) showed up in unstable so i grabbed it. Next time i rebooted, it gave me the gnome login screen and my mouse works, but for some odd reason it disables

Netelligent, still problems

1999-05-20 Thread Markus Wollgarten
Hi to all, unfortunately, I still can't get this netelligent card working. I installed the base system from the base-floppies and also found a 2.0.34-based tlan.o (now in my /lib/modules/2.0.34/net/ directory). But on issuing the command insmod tlan nothing happens afterwards (also error

exim mailer/dhis.org/debian mailing list question

1999-05-20 Thread solomon
Howdy all. I'm running potato with exim mailer and i am using the dhis.org dynamic dns service (there happens to be a nice dhis.org client in unstable, though it would be easy enough to compile it or get binaries...); it is set up so that mail sent to me while i'm offline is held by dhis.org and

fetchmail

1999-05-20 Thread Johan Pettersson
Hello! 1) Have installed fetchmail but when I type man fetchmail it does not exist ? 2) Have looked at others .fetchmailrc but it does not work so well =) .fetchmailrc poll mail.server.se proto pop3 user linus159 pass $ fetchmail 1 message for linus159 at mail.server.se (4122

Re: gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses

1999-05-20 Thread Steve Haslam
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:05:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it gave me the gnome login screen and my mouse works, but for some odd reason it disables my keyboard. The kb works through bootup but once Did you remember to disable xdm? this. Is it simply a bug in GDM? I suppose i'll

Re: fetchmail

1999-05-20 Thread Carl Mummert
1 message for linus159 at mail.server.se (4122 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (4122 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listner doesn't like recipient address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to linus fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from mail.server.se fetchmail: Query

Problems compiling gtk+ applications.

1999-05-20 Thread Blouze
My name's Blaise, coming out of Paris France. I'm trying to compile and install gtk+ applications with an update of the gtk library. I complete the installation of new glib and new gtk+ lib. I heard that gtk lib is in fact composed of glib, gtk and imlib. So, I have a new glib and a new gtk on my

Re: Re[2]: Separate list for newbies

1999-05-20 Thread Gilbert Laycock
As for the volume of the list my solution is simple: I archive in gz files every single post to the list, and I have over a year's worth of such archives. There's nothing new under the sun and chances are I am not the first person to ask a question. This is something simple anyone could

Re: Upgraded mother board and now...

1999-05-20 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
Jim Harsh wrote: floppy, the boot process hangs when trying to setup the SCSI controller. The controller is an Adaptec AHA-2940. message all look correct/normal until it gets to Downloading sequencer code... 406 instructions downloaded then the boot just stops. I've noticed this before when

Re: Help setting up mail...sending/recieving

1999-05-20 Thread Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven
On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 06:13:41PM -0400, Allen B. Riddell wrote: Are there any instructions on how to set up mail for a standard home-desktop user? I.E.: I send my mail via smtp and recieve via pop3? I got fetchmail working -- but it seems that all my messages are frozen -- is some

dosemu.help!!!

1999-05-20 Thread Gancho Tenev Tenev
Hi debian user! I have installed dosemu 0.66.7-13 (DOS-emulator) from .deb packet comes with hamm (Debian 2.0). I start dosemu dos : #dos and under dos emulator i went to floppy a: C:a: and start cyrillic.com - this is TSR ( Terminate and Stay Resident ) program that make me able to type

Re: Re[2]: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

1999-05-20 Thread Pierfrancesco Caci
:- Phillip == Phillip Deackes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Peter Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My box has even survived an incredible big mistake I just made. I was running as root, in /usr Instead of typing rm -r gimp* I typed rm -r * Thank goodness star office is big

Q: cc1plus

1999-05-20 Thread Thomas Ruedas
I tried to compile a C++ program and got the following error message: gcc: install problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory I have gcc, g++ and cc installed (at least the which command tells me that they are), so I don't know what's wrong. What is cc1plus resp. what is it part

Re: Microtek scanner help

1999-05-20 Thread Khalid EZZARAOUI
try : cat /proc/scsi/scsi if you see something like : Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 05 Lun: 00 Vendor: UMAX Model: Astra 1220S Rev: V1.3 Type: Scanner ANSI SCSI revision: 02 Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id:

Re: gtk-themes problems

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
GA == Graham Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: GA but GIMP still refuses to respond to the GTK themes - do I need to GA recompile GIMP to make it work? Check dpkg -s gimp. Themes don't work for programms compiled for libgtk1.0 or libgtk1.1 earlier than 1.1.16 or such. Ciao, Martin

RE: Failed boot from rescue floppy

1999-05-20 Thread Andrew Chittenden
I get the same problem on a Dell Optiplex DGX 5133 trying to install the slink release. Fortunately, I still have an earlier rescue disk for Debian 2.0.21 which I used to boot with and then used slink's base floppies to install from. Seemed to work ok. -Original Message- From: dormat

CFS has died

1999-05-20 Thread Damon Muller
Hi all, I recently noticed a problem with CFS (the cryptographic file system) on my machine. It no longer mounts the /crypt directory, and as a result, I can't use it (even tho cfsd is running). I don't know exactly when this happened, but it was sometime after I went from a 2.0.36 to a 2.2.5

wdm and xdm co-exisitng - is this a bug?

1999-05-20 Thread Damon Muller
Hi Folks, I recently installed the kde 1.1.1 debs on my slink system. Only catch was they required xdm being present, and I think wdm is much nicer (and more useful) than xdm. But, I wanted to upgrade my kde, so I installed xdm, and then went and installed kde. Now, that was a while ago, but I

Re: Re[2]: Debian installation - list of things that make it hard

1999-05-20 Thread Rob
so when you try rm -r * from / it expands the -i too and asks you for permission. Note that this doesn't protect you from rm -r / Or even better, add an alias into your root .bashrc (or .cshrc or whatever) such as alias rm 'rm -i' its saved my life many a time :) Rob.

Re: Q: cc1plus

1999-05-20 Thread J.H.M. Dassen
On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 13:49:58 +0200, Thomas Ruedas wrote: I tried to compile a C++ program and got the following error message: gcc: install problem, cannot exec 'cc1plus': No such file or directory I have gcc, g++ and cc installed (at least the which command tells me that they are), so I

Problem with PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro (i82865)

1999-05-20 Thread eric a. Farris
I would appreciate it if someone that is on the kernel list could forward this. please send all replies to my address as well as the list. I cannot get any kernel to utilize my Intel EtherExpress Pro card. it is a PCI 10/100 card, and i am using the 2.2.x kernels in Debian GNU/Linux 2.1. When the

Re: modem speakerphone commands

1999-05-20 Thread eric a. Farris
On 20 May, Rob wrote: snip Umm, isn't this the Debian list? Or did I miss the release of Visual Basic for Linux? oh, PLEASE say i missed it too. ;) one of the very few worthwhile microsoft products. -- eric Farris [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.bigfoot.com/~eafarris Microcomputer Support

Re: gdm/xdm/login.app weirdnesses

1999-05-20 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
[ cross-posting is not welcomed, btw ] On Thu, May 20, 1999 at 04:05:23AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running potato and till recently was running XDM with login.app to give the login screen a nice clean look. Then GDM (Gnome Display Manager) showed up in unstable so i grabbed it.

Sound cards that support a3d

1999-05-20 Thread Dave Swegen
Does anyone know if any of the a3d capable soundcards out there have got drivers available under linux (I would go for a SB Live, but since the drivers are bin only it's out of the question)? The linux drivers don't have to support a3d (I'm one of those people who dual-boots to winders just to

wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. -- Andrew

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Rob
Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. Just download the tarball and follow the instructions. Worked a treat for me. That is, until I decided it was crap and removed it ;) Rob.

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Dan Willard
Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things with it (like my mouse). I might try again in a month or so ... --Dano -Original Message- From: Pollywog [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:

partition problem

1999-05-20 Thread Hammy
Hello, I'm having a problem partitioning my hard drive with the install program. Once I run install.bat, I can setup the colour monitor and the keyboard. The next step is to partition the hard drive and this is where I am having problems. I keep getting the following error: 'Fatal error:

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Rob wrote: Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. Just download the tarball and follow the instructions. Worked a treat for me. That is, until I decided it was crap and removed

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Dan Willard wrote: Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things with it (like my mouse). I might try again in a month or so ... Interesting. When VMWare first came out, I was

Shortcuts

1999-05-20 Thread Hans van den Boogert
Sofar I'm pretty happy with Linux, except for X Window. I haven't found one window manager which makes it easy for a user to put a shortcut on the desktop or in the application menu. I talk mainly about shortcuts for Netscape and WP. Sofar I've used fvwm95, icewm, qvwm and windowmaker, with the

Re: Shortcuts

1999-05-20 Thread Robert Rati
Actuall,y you're not making any mistakes about window-managers at all. Window-manager don't have desktops for the most part. At least none of the ones you are using. Most of the window-managers use configuration files to setup buttons or shortcuts to programs through sime kind of menuing system,

Re: Shortcuts

1999-05-20 Thread Koyote
Sofar I'm pretty happy with Linux, except for X Window. I haven't found one window manager which makes it easy for a user to put a shortcut on the desktop or in the application menu. I talk mainly about shortcuts for Netscape and WP. Sofar I've used fvwm95, icewm, qvwm and windowmaker, with the

problem with my system includes

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
What should I do to fix this? ### Something is wrong with the system include files on ### your machine! The file linux/version.h is for a ### 2.2.5 Linux system but you are running a 2.2.6 ### kernel. This will not work for building the VMware device ### drivers; you must have include files

Re: problem with my system includes

1999-05-20 Thread Robert Rati
Ya, that's pretty much what I did I believe and it works fine. There are already dirs of those names in /usr/include, so you'llhave to either delete them or rename them. I recommend renaming them as a precaution. I don't use debian packages for kernels anymore, so symlinking them to

autologout problems...

1999-05-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, in some way on my system is activated a sort of autologout which shut down shells which are idle for 60 min now while this feature is desirable, in some cases it is not i am used to have an xterm open with a ssh connection to my server running on it a mail client (mutt, if that

Re: install guide.-- update

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
K == Koyote [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, Seems I can not download the installation guide for slink. K Seems I can browse through the sparc and alpha guides- it's just the K i386 one I can't get to. If you could give us the URL that fails for you, we could take a look at it as well. Ciao,

Re: wdm and xdm co-exisitng - is this a bug?

1999-05-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
DM == Damon Muller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: DM Is this a bug with either of the packages? If so, which one? xdm DM and wdm seem to co-exist well as regards to things like depends. The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP with gdm or such. So the packages don't

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Steve Lamb
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 20 May 1999 14:02:24 - (UTC), Pollywog wrote: Didn't work worth a damn for me. The install spazed a couple of times, and when I got annoyed enough to remove it, it took a couple of things with it (like my mouse). I might try again

Re: Soundblaster PCI : es1371 and IRQ clash ?

1999-05-20 Thread Rene H. Larsen
Gorik De Samblanx [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Result : * /proc/sound does not exist * /dev/sndstat does not exist if I create it (using sh /dev/MAKEDEV audio) it exists alright but does not support me doing 'cat /dev/sndstat * 'cat somefile /dev/dsp' or 'cat somefile /dev/audio' does

Re: fetchmail

1999-05-20 Thread Roy-Anders Larsen
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Carl Mummert wrote: 1 message for linus159 at mail.server.se (4122 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (4122 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listner doesn't like recipient address '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' fetchmail: can't even send to linus fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while

Re: partition problem

1999-05-20 Thread Ookhoi
Hi Hammy, I'm having a problem partitioning my hard drive with the install program. Once I run install.bat, I can setup the colour monitor and the keyboard. The next step is to partition the hard drive and this is where I am having problems. I keep getting the following error: 'Fatal

Re: Life at 4 bogomips

1999-05-20 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Sun, 16 May 1999, R. Brock Lynn wrote: Raymond A. Ingles wrote: On Sun, 9 May 1999, George Bonser wrote: Well I got the old 386 put back together [...] Now it is running Debian and MAN is it S-L-O-W. [...] I guess I won't be compiling any kernels on that box ... well, maybe ONE

Re: Sendmail Relay.

1999-05-20 Thread Anthony Landreneau
Greetings Thomas, Thanks for the info, I plugged it in and hopefully it will work. Have about 200+ domains that I am hosting and trying to relay mail for. Just for my understanding, where did you get this information? I would like to understand it a little better for future use. Thanks

wvdial, pon ,poff

1999-05-20 Thread tf
hey all I need to be able to connect. until recently, pon dialed, but left my connection open (I get the sound like if you leave the phone off the hook.) wvdial does the same thing. pon no longer works even to the extent that it did, can't find a shared library... wvdial still dials but

Re: Location of single file (zip) install file for Debian...

1999-05-20 Thread Marc Mongeon
Does it give you the option to open the file in the browser? That's what you want to do. Otherwise, save it as a file and then choose File | Open Page | Choose File Marc -- Marc Mongeon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Specialist Ban-Koe Systems 9100 W Bloomington Fwy Bloomington, MN

Re: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Mark Tucker
On Thu, 20 May 1999, Pollywog wrote: Has anyone installed VMware on a Debian system? There are no instructions on their website for Debian, only SuSE, Caldera, and RedHat. I installed the last beta without any problems. I had NT4 and Win98 working in a box on my X desktop. Performance

Re: Problem with PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro (i82865)

1999-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Problem with PCI Intel EtherExpress Pro (i82865) Date: Thu, May 20, 1999 at 08:35:40AM -0400 In reply to:eric a. Farris Quoting eric a. Farris([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I would appreciate it if someone that is on the kernel list could forward this. please send all replies

Re: fetchmail

1999-05-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: fetchmail Date: Thu, May 20, 1999 at 07:21:29AM -0400 In reply to:Carl Mummert Quoting Carl Mummert([EMAIL PROTECTED]): 1 message for linus159 at mail.server.se (4122 octets). reading message 1 of 1 (4122 octets) .fetchmail: SMTP listner doesn't like recipient

RE: wmware on Debian

1999-05-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-May-99 Steve Lamb wrote: Imagine this simple situation, run VMWare on your machine, give it ~16Mb or so, and then run Debian inside Debian. The outer Debian is stable, the inner is unstable. I won't call it the perfect sandbox, but for $99 bucks, it is a damned good sandbox. Test

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