I've just installed the jdk and tried some applets that worked perfectly
well (from local files or across the Internet) with Netscape, IE or
appletviewer under win95. Running them under Debian in X overwhelmed the
system if there was any significant redrawing of the screen required - it
couldn't
I have a computer running mostly slink, with a small amount of potato
thrown in. It completely fails to recognise my serial mouse, no matter
what device or protocol I give it. gpmconfig instantly decides that the
modem device must be the mouse, I guess because it's the only one with
any activity.
i believe you're missing a ncurses dev lib.
add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://e0i-cyberpimps.virtualave.net
help, I got sucked into /dev/null
- Original Message -
From:
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Mark Nellemann wrote:
Whenever I install a Debian (slink or potato), it seems that the sound
devices (/dev/dsp, /dev/mixer, ..) is missing. So I install the devices
with a script from a 2.0.x kernel found in Documentation/sound.
Am I wrong or is this the right thing to do ?
Subject: LILO Problem
Date: Sat, May 29, 1999 at 02:48:22PM -0700
In reply to:Lorne Williams
Quoting Lorne Williams([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Hi gang. I've read every scrap of documentation on lilo I can find *twice*,
and I'm still discombobulated. Here's my situation:
[snip
i tend to agree with Daniel. my situation of use is quite the same, but my
system gets heavy usage and i never have problems i can't take care of. only
minor ones so far luckily. i had more problems with slink but who knows why.
add|t|on,
add|t|on, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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help, I got sucked into /dev/null
that is calling for libtermcap, which you don't need to use technically.
ncurses
if i'm not mistaken, the proper way to do it is to go into /dev as root and
run ./MAKEDEV audio.
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help, I got sucked into /dev/null
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 06:03:04PM -0500, Brad wrote:
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
Why are the menuconfig boxes now shown with ascii characters (*, |,
etc.) instead of real lines as in earlier versions?
What's your TERM environment variable set to? On my system, if it's
*- On 29 May, David Karlin wrote about specification of mailhost password to
fetchmail on command line.
There is, however, no mention of the syntax for .fetchmailrc.
man fetchmail
CONFIGURATION EXAMPLES
Basic format is:
poll SERVERNAME protocol PROTOCOL username NAME
Hi,
I have downloaded the 2.1r2 version and when
I come to installing in dselect/apt/ftp I get a lot
of the error:
'The size of the file is not what I expected. ERROR ..'
I have checked the files and the size is right as far as
I can see.
Most grateful if somebody can tell me what to do.
F == Fabien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
F ps : it's a shame that there is not enough explanations in the man
F pages.
You are always free to submit patches trough the bug system. You will
also find all this information in /usr/doc/menu/html/*
Ciao,
Martin
Another newbie question.
Those of us with a Red Hat background use control-panel
to configure the printer and sndconfig to configure sound.
When in Debian as a newbie, it is not at all obvious how
to do these things.
Is it legal and will it work, to install
control-panel and sndconfig in a Debian
Hi, I'm having a real problem getting a custom kernel to recognise
an Adaptec 2940UW-Pro (AIC7xxx) controller on bootup.
The kernel (2.0.36) has been configured with only the AIC7xxx driver
as an internal module - no other scsi drivers have been selected.
On bootup it simply refuses to
Pollywog wrote:
On 29-May-99 Randy Edwards wrote:
I'm running potato with potato's netscape 4.6 (smotif). Often, though
not 100% consistently, Netscape will not exit properly when I do a File -
Exit (Alt-Q) and/or click on the X widget to close the window.
I know this is
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Barry Kauler wrote:
Another newbie question.
Those of us with a Red Hat background use control-panel
to configure the printer and sndconfig to configure sound.
When in Debian as a newbie, it is not at all obvious how
to do these things.
Is it legal and will it work,
Hi all
I have tried to install the kdevelop, but when I ran the ./configure,
the program showed me up the following message:
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
your installation and add the correct paths!
But where do I find this files? I've looked for it at
(please Cc: all replies)
I've installed Debian on a previously slackware machine. Most things seems
to be working fine but pppd stubbornly refuses to do anything useful. pon
dials up and logs in successfully but it won't start up ppp (nothing shows
up in route or ifconfig). From reading some of
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 01:35:17PM +0200, Johann Spies at Johann wrote
According to the Kernel-HOWTO I should do the following:
So, continuing with the example above, let's suppose that you have
`patch46.gz' in /usr/src. cd to /usr/src and do a `zcat patch46.gz |
patch -p0' (or `patch
On Sun, 30 May 1999, John Pearson wrote:
The patch was prepared on a system where /usr/src/linux was 'really'
/usr/src/linux.vanilla. Try this:
# cd /usr/src
# ln -s linux linux.vanilla
# cat patch-2.2.7-ac4 | patch -p0
That should work.
The patch utility was specifically designed to
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Roy Coates wrote:
Hi, I'm having a real problem getting a custom kernel to recognise
an Adaptec 2940UW-Pro (AIC7xxx) controller on bootup.
The kernel (2.0.36) has been configured with only the AIC7xxx driver
as an internal module - no other scsi drivers have been
Hi,
Thanks for your speedy responses, pointers to the proper section
of the manpage, and sample .fetchmailrc files. After going back
and reading the _whole_ f***ing manual, (okay, I admit that I
skimmed some of it) I edited my file, and am now downloading mail
without the bother of entering my
Dear All,
I'm new to this stuff and installed Debian slink recently, however, I
have some problems:
1. Is there any filter for the HP LaserJet 5L printer. I can only
print the text with ifhp filter.
2. My xterm always quits after some idle time (30min ?), how can I
disable
Barry Kauler wrote:
I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux!
I got X windows running, with default window
manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it
didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight
into graphics mode and gave me a login window
for fvwm.
In Red Hat, this is controlled
One of the things that I seem to have missed in setting up Linux is the
ability (as in Windows) to be able to highlight almost anything in any
window and cut/copy it to another window. I have not been able to find
any means to do that consistantly in Xwindows. Some individual
applications will
Armin Wegner wrote:
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:28:11PM +0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux!
I got X windows running, with default window
manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it
didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight
into graphics mode
On 30-May-99 David Karlin wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for your speedy responses, pointers to the proper section
of the manpage, and sample .fetchmailrc files. After going back
and reading the _whole_ f***ing manual, (okay, I admit that I
skimmed some of it) I edited my file, and am now downloading
-Original Message-
From: Pollywog [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, May 29, 1999 11:31 PM
To: David Karlin
Cc: Debian User; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: .fetchmailrc (or: 'rtwfm')
On 30-May-99 David Karlin wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for your speedy responses, pointers
John Foster wrote:
One of the things that I seem to have missed in setting up Linux is the
ability (as in Windows) to be able to highlight almost anything in any
window and cut/copy it to another window. I have not been able to find
any means to do that consistantly in Xwindows. Some
On 30-May-99 David Karlin wrote:
Hi Andrew,
AFAIK 'chmod 600 filename' and 'chmod u=rw,g=,o= filename' do
exactly the same thing. The letters are more intuitive for me,
even if a bit more typing.
--David
You are right, but it is easier to remember 'chmod 600', for me anyway.
--
Andrew
Sorry about the off-topic nature here
Does anyone know if Sierra's Space Quest games will run on dosemu or
wine? About 10 years ago I played the first in the series but never got
to play the others, and lately have had a hankerin' to play them, but
they're DOS/Win-based.
Thanks!
This is completely off-topic, so please reply to me directly if you can help.
Any DS9 fans who could tape the finale and post it to me here in AU?
I gather it was on Saturday night in the US, so I'm too late, but
on Monday in Canada.
It should be on in Australia in about 2003 or 2004 ..
Hi,
On Sat, 29 May, 1999 à 11:10:48AM -0400, Sean wrote:
And that's a problem???
Two possible problems :
- first : your graphic card must be supported or you'll be limited to
standard VGA modes (i.e. 320x240 to get 256 colors...)
- second : I think it has to be suid root to be useable by
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 09:28:11PM +0800, Barry Kauler wrote:
I'm *still* installing my first Debian Linux!
I got X windows running, with default window
manager fvwm, but next time I logged in it
didn't stop at the commandline --- went straight
Hello again,
Running exim on slink, and now that I've gotten exim to deliver local
mail and fetchmail to download mail from my smarthost, outgoing mail
is broken. The system is _trying_ to deliver mail, but it never makes
it out of the queue. Two messages have been sitting in the queue for
more
Hi,
after upgrading to slink am unable to work with floppy:
Operation not supported by device or something like that.
Another problem is that it seems that old way of
copying kernel (2.2.5) to another harddisk of floppy by doing
dd with previosly set root device by rdev also does not work.
moron wrote:
I've just installed the jdk and tried some applets that worked perfectly
well (from local files or across the Internet) with Netscape
normally Netscape use it's own java runtime. So it's normal that it works.
what happend when you type : java
in a shell.
excuse my previous mail..
it's not the problem.
what version of Netscape are you using ?
I renamed its start script:
cd /etc/rc2.d // for the standard runlvel,e.g.
mv S99xdm _99xdm
mv S99gdm _99gdm// this is Gnome's X-login manager, if you have
it
There are a few others like kdm (KDE) for example. They usually end in 'dm'.
Only init-scripts with the 'S'
-Eber de Castro Diniz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all
I have tried to install the kdevelop, but when I ran the ./configure,
the program showed me up the following message:
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
your installation and add the correct paths!
But
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Eber de Castro Diniz wrote:
I have tried to install the kdevelop, but when I ran the ./configure,
the program showed me up the following message:
checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please check
your installation and add the correct paths!
But
On Sun, 30 May 1999, John Foster wrote:
One of the things that I seem to have missed in setting up Linux is the
ability (as in Windows) to be able to highlight almost anything in any
window and cut/copy it to another window. I have not been able to find
any means to do that consistantly in
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Daniel wrote:
Anyone knows where to get info or a howto for procmail?
Read the Filtering-Mail-FAQ. It is located at
http://www.jazzie.com/ii/faqs/archive/mail/filtering-faq/
It is a good step for step description of setting up procmail for sorting
mails into different
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Adilson dos Santos Dantas wrote:
I´m trying to compile Pine 4.10 in a slink. But I have some problems.
When I complile Pine. I found this message:
/usr/bin/ld: cannot open -ltermcap: No such file or directory
Try changing -ltermcap in -lncurses in the makefile.
CU,
On Sunday 30 May, Roy Coates wrote:
Hi, I'm having a real problem getting a custom kernel to recognise
an Adaptec 2940UW-Pro (AIC7xxx) controller on bootup.
The kernel (2.0.36) has been configured with only the AIC7xxx driver
as an internal module - no other scsi drivers have been selected.
On 20 May 1999, Jan Vroonhof wrote:
Martin Bialasinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The thing is, that you could manage :0 with xdm, :1 with wdm and XDMCP
with gdm or such. So the packages don't conflict in a traditional
sense. But looks like all of them try to manage :0 and therefore
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Marina Gandelsman wrote:
(please Cc: all replies)
I've installed Debian on a previously slackware machine. Most
things seems to be working fine but pppd stubbornly refuses to
do anything useful. pon dials up and logs in successfully but it
won't start up ppp (nothing
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote:
zgv but it uses svgalib
someone writes:
::That's a problem?
Two possible problems :
- first : your graphic card must be supported or you'll be limited to
standard VGA modes (i.e. 320x240 to get 256 colors...)
- second : I think it has to
On Sat, 29 May 1999, N. Raghavendra wrote:
I am a Debian newbie and have the following problem with my
floppy drives. There are two of them: a 1.44 MB floppy drive
and an unused 1.2 MB floppy drive. In the BIOS setup I have
configured the 1.44 MB drive as A: and the other floppy drive as
Hi!
I have installed KDE in my Debian system. But now
I cannot run almost any KDE application. I get the
following error:
$ kfm
kfm: error in loading shared libraries
libjpeg.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The problem is that I don't
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 12:20:09AM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
A similar case has been discussed on the list some time ago. Something
I missed it in my search.
like that happens when multiple programms fight about a virtual
console. These may be getty, xdm, wdm, gdm or login.app.
I am
Von: Khalid EZZARAOUI [EMAIL PROTECTED]
moron wrote:
I've just installed the jdk and tried some applets that worked perfectly
well (from local files or across the Internet) with Netscape
normally Netscape use it's own java runtime. So it's normal that it works.
what happend when you type :
BB == Bob Billson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
BB As a side note, is there collection of these little tidbits of
BB info that are common knowledge to Debian old-timers, but known to
BB the Debian (and/or Linux) newbies? I don't mean the Debian FAQ,
BB though a section in the FAQ dealing with
WT Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
As to the Viewer/Grpahics thing. Viewer to me is for pdf readers
and the like. I expect a graphics app to be in graphics.
Feel free to bring this up on policy.
I would appreciate, if the maintainers of graphic viewers could
arrange on
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Christian Pernegger wrote:
cd /etc/rc2.d // for the standard runlvel,e.g.
mv S99xdm _99xdm
Thanks for the info. There is one advantage in the Slackware method of
dedicating a run level to xdm--you can kill it off by changing to the
non-xdm run level (telinit 3).
Subject: PPP
Date: Sat, May 29, 1999 at 11:04:59PM -0500
In reply to:Marina Gandelsman
Quoting Marina Gandelsman([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
(please Cc: all replies)
I've installed Debian on a previously slackware machine. Most things seems
to be working fine but pppd stubbornly
I'm trying to install the X-Windows System. I have
a S3 Savage 3D video card, but using XF86Setup
I can use it only in the 640x480 and 8 bits. If I
trye to setup the 800x600 resolution it doesn't work
with the settings of this config application.
Does anybody have the right XF86Config file for
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Christian Pernegger wrote:
I renamed its start script:
cd /etc/rc2.d // for the standard runlvel,e.g.
mv S99xdm _99xdm
mv S99gdm _99gdm // this is Gnome's X-login manager, if you have
it
With Debian, all the files in /etc/rc?.d are just symlinks
Still can't get my ISDN card to connect to my isp
It get's installed ok
I've made an chatscript for it using pppconfig .
chatscript :
ABORT BUSY
ABORT NO CARRIER
ABORT VOICE
ABORT NO DIALTONE
ABORT NO ANSWER
ATe0238800806S14=3
OK ATDT0238800806
CONNECT \d \c
I don't know if the initstring is
So far I have had a couple of people help and this is what we have come up with.
To change the IP address of a system the following files need to be modified.
/etc/hosts - This was easy to figure out.
/etc/resolv.conf - Just change the DNS servers to the new IP's.
/etc/networks - I am a little
Hi Barry
I've tried downloading the mentioned file from the URL you gave... but
it wasn't there...
About the kfm, I've tried to install other package using the technique
you said, but when I right-click on the file that I wanna install, the
menu don't show me the install button...
I do know
On 30-May-99 George Bonser wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Doug Thistlethwaite wrote:
So far I have had a couple of people help and this is what we have come up
with.
To change the IP address of a system the following files need to be
modified.
ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} netmask ${NETMASK}
On Sun, May 30, 1999 at 18:29:09 +, Rene Feenstra wrote:
Still can't get my ISDN card to connect to my isp It get's installed ok
I've made an chatscript for it using pppconfig .
I can't recall having to write a chatscript for ISDN; its setup is somewhat
different from an analogue modem
I had a look in my /var/log/exim/paniclog and noticed the following
line:
1999-05-30 18:56:10 socket bind() to port 25 for address (any) failed:
Address already in use: daemon abandoned
Any idea what it means? I have lots of these messages in the exim
mainlog too. Apart from this all is well!
Ok -- I'm using potato and gnome and this morning, I did an apt-get update
; apt-get upgrade...and, low and behold, almost all my pixmaps are gone for
gnome (all the main ones, at least)
-abr
Who knows what
bugtracking system is used by debian
Can I use it for my own project?
Konstantin
Rene Feenstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Still can't get my ISDN card to connect to my isp [..]
I've made an chatscript for it using pppconfig.
[chatscript]
I think you don.t need a chat script. Installing an ISDN card and
getting it to run is a pain in the a**. However, there is a dutch WWW
ABR == Allen B Riddell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ABR Ok -- I'm using potato and gnome and this morning, I did an
ABR apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade...and, low and behold, almost
ABR all my pixmaps are gone for gnome (all the main ones, at least)
There is now a gnome-panel-data package. Do a
Using 4.6 on a 2.2.1 kernel:
Earlier I posted that a certain web site shuts Netscape down; no
warning, no error message. Now I'm seeing it happen with other sites as
well, but not real often.
Recently I was sent an MPEG attachment (probably from a Windows box);
trying to open it from Netscape
George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 30 May 1999, Phillip Deackes wrote:
Looks to me like you are trying to start an exim daemon when one
already
exists.
Thanks George. I looked in /etc/init.d and found the expected 'exim'
file which starts the exim daemon if it hasn't been
KK == Konstantin Kivi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
KK Who knows what bugtracking system is used by debian Can I use it
KK for my own project?
It is called debbugs.
There is a package in potato.
Ciao,
Martin
On Sat, 29 May 1999, Kent West wrote:
Is there something wrong with my Netscape, with my system, with the way
I'm doing things, or what?
Sounds like bugs in Netscape - not much you can do about it except report
them to Netscape. The next generation of Netscape will be free software so
I now have a problem with BIND. When I boot the machine, the boot messages
tell me that the nameserver has been started, but it won't work until I do an
'ndc restart'. I have put '/usr/sbin/ndc restart' in my /etc/init.d/local but
that is not helping.
Also, it takes longer for my machine to
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Hi All!
I'm unable to use hyphenation in my LaTeX documents using the seminar style.
Does anybody succeeded to do it?
--
Wojciech Zabolotny
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.debian.org Use Linux - save your data and time
On Sat, May 29, 1999 at 07:14:02PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
Unfortunately, somehow the syncronisation hit the wrong directory :-(
This will be fixed monday at latest. Sorry for this.
In the meantime, use one of the following sources.list lines:
deb
Marina Gandelsman writes:
From reading some of the archived emails it might possibly be
/etc/init.d/network, there's no mention of ppp there, just ethernet (I
answered that I have ethernet when setting the machine up, but it uses
both). What should be in that file?
It's what should not be
Hi!
aadish wrote:
Fetchmail fetches mail from ISP but delievers all
the mails as a single mail to postmaster.
As a single email? How do you call fetchmail?
I want the mail to be delivered to respective
users in my network. I use sendmail with
fetchmail.
Doug Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi!
Rene Mayrhofer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am trying to upload my PGP public key on a
public key server. The PGP 5 documentation found
under /usr/doc/pgp5i/README claims that PGP5 can
interact with key servers, but it does not say how
to do this.
Has anybody done this already ?
Rene,
Subject: Re: acrobat reader
In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have downloaded and installed Acrobat 3 for linux. When tryning to
execute it, I receive the message can't load library 'libXt.so.6'.
Of course, the library
hi,
I just had my system hosed, but was able to recover in an hour with
minimal (? will find out soon if not!) damage... however I'm getting the
ol'
INIT: Id 2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes.
Now I know WHY its doing this: my /dev/tty2 was hosed with the system, and
I don't know
Hi!
Daniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone knows where to get info or a howto for
procmail? I am specially interested in the
organization for incoming mail into separate
folders since Netscape filters wont work right for
me and I have tried everything to make them work
right!
There is a
thanks, I used:
rm tty2
./MAKEDEV tty2
and now the permissions are ok (i assume the messages will go away now)
just as a last question: are these permissions ok? i'm not sure what they
_should_ be...
crw--w--w- 1 root root 4, 0 May 31 06:12 tty0
crw--- 1 wilfytty
hi,
i'm the one who just hosed his system, and the latest problem is getting a
/etc/vga/libvga.config file to install.
for some reason, the whole /etc/vga directory was gone after the hosing,
so I do as I did for all packages that were partially stuffed:
dpkg --force-depends -r svgalibg1
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