Re: Diferencias entre Slink y Citius

1999-07-20 Thread Jon Noble
Hola On lun, 19 jul 1999 16:54:39 Ángel Carrasco wrote: Hola a todos, En Citius compilé el kernel 2.2.10 y desde entonces el aptcdrom no me reconoce los cdroms de Citius. Por cierto, es muy buena y tengo la completa pero tengo otros compañeros también la tienen y les pasa lo mismo. a mi

Re: Problemas para ejecutar la barra de GNOME

1999-07-20 Thread Eduardo Borja Ramirez Ronco
daniel wrote: Hola, Siempre suelo usar WindowMaker sin aditivos ni colorantes pero me apetecía probar la versión compilada con soporte para GNOME, en la web de GNOME viene claramente explicado qué poner en el .xsession para cargar GNOME xterm wmaker-gnome panel Yo para arrancar

Re: Instalacion Debian 2.1 con NE200 ISA

1999-07-20 Thread Ricard P.G.
--- Iñaki Fernández Villanueva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola [EMAIL PROTECTED], Estoy intentando instalar el Debian 2.1 en un 486 con una ethernet ISA Realtek 8019 compatible NE2000. Sin embargo cuando llego a la seleccion de modulos el modulo de NE2000 (ne) me falla en la instalacion,

RE: Instalacion Debian 2.1 con NE200 ISA

1999-07-20 Thread Ricard P.G.
Vaya sorpresa pues, deben ser los nuevos kernels a algo asi, pero no es lo normal. Basta mirar el archivo /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/net-modules.txt Line 255 --- ne.c: io = 0 (Explicitly *requires* an io=0xNNN value) irq = 0 (Tries to determine

Re: Instalacion Debian 2.1 con NE200 ISA

1999-07-20 Thread Javier López
Iñaki Fernández Villanueva wrote: Hola [EMAIL PROTECTED], Estoy intentando instalar el Debian 2.1 en un 486 con una ethernet ISA Realtek 8019 compatible NE2000. Sin embargo cuando llego a la seleccion de modulos el modulo de NE2000 (ne) me falla en la instalacion, por lo que no

Re: Diferencias entre Slink y Citius

1999-07-20 Thread Jose Centeno
Ángel Carrasco writes: Hola a todos, En Citius compilé el kernel 2.2.10 y desde entonces el aptcdrom no me reconoce los cdroms de Citius. Por cierto, es muy buena y tengo la completa pero tengo otros compañeros también la tienen y les pasa lo mismo. Por favor, me podeis ayudar?

Re: Problemas para ejecutar la barra de GNOME

1999-07-20 Thread daniel
Ya.. esa es otra de las opciones que dan.. pero no quiero esa, se puede perder la configuración del escritorio facilmente. Es más me interesa resolver el problema actual que buscar otra alternativa... Un saludo Daniel

Re: Framebuffer (y II): problemas svgalib y X.

1999-07-20 Thread Barbwired
El lunes 12 de julio de 1999 a la(s) 20:49:22 +0200, Ricardo Villalba contaba: [...] Pero, de momento, ha sido peor el remedio que la enfermedad: - NO funcionan los programas para svgalib, se lanzan y no se ve nada, solo fondo negro y algunas manchas horizontales. A mi me pasa lo mismo.

Re: Diferencias entre Slink y Citius

1999-07-20 Thread Jon Noble
Hola On mar, 20 jul 1999 10:19:17 Jose Centeno wrote: Ángel Carrasco writes: En Citius compilé el kernel 2.2.10 y desde entonces el aptcdrom no me reconoce los cdroms de Citius. Por cierto, es muy buena y tengo la completa pero tengo otros compañeros también la tienen y les pasa lo

Re: Problemas para ejecutar la barra de GNOME

1999-07-20 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On mar, jul 20, 1999 at 01:57:45 +0200, Eduardo Borja Ramirez Ronco wrote: Yo para arrancar el gnome lo que hago es poner la siguiente linea en el .xinitrc Me digan lo contrario si me equivoco pero ¿no es lo correcto el uso de .xsession para xdm, wdm, gdm... y .xinitrc para startx?. Saludos

Re: Particiones y LILO

1999-07-20 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On lun, jul 19, 1999 at 06:33:33 +0200, Arenaz Silva Manuel Carlos wrote: Hola, Me gustaria saber como se configura LILO para que te de la oportunidad de arrancar diferentes sistemas instalados en diferentes particiones. En mi caso tengo un disco curo en el que he creado tres particiones:

fvwm95 y otros ...

1999-07-20 Thread Diego Bote Barco
Hola compañeros. Tengo instalado en casa el bienamado Debian-linux con las X y encima el fvwm95, va estupendo. Sin embargo he querido probar otros y he instalado windowsmaker, que también va muy bien, y KDE y Gnome. Sin embargo estos dos últimos no me aparecen en el menú

Re: Problemas para ejecutar la barra de GNOME

1999-07-20 Thread daniel
A vé.. que parece que hay muxa confusión... lo que yo puse en el primer correo es idéntico a las instrucciones que hay en la página web de GNOME, de que ellos lo ponen así.. será porque es la forma de hacerlo no? ahora... alguien sabe la solución al error que antaño puse? Saludos Daniel

Re: fvwm95 y otros ...

1999-07-20 Thread Jon Noble
Hola On mar, 20 jul 1999 15:12:09 Diego Bote Barco wrote: Tengo instalado en casa el bienamado Debian-linux con las X y encima el fvwm95, va estupendo. Sin embargo he querido probar otros y he instalado windowsmaker, que también va muy bien, y KDE y Gnome. Sin embargo estos dos

Re: Tarjetas de video on-board

1999-07-20 Thread daniel
Si está incorporado en la placa yo juraría que usa PCI (más rapido que VLBUS e ISA)... que alguien lo desmienta si me equivoco... si no es PCI, compra otra placa... :P Saludos Daniel (Embedded

RE: Tarjetas de video on-board

1999-07-20 Thread Vázquez, Gustavo
Un amigo tiene una maquina con Video on-board que se conecta con AGP. -- From: Marcelo E. Magallon[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: lunes 19 de julio de 1999 18:11 To: debian-user-spanish@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Tarjetas de video on-board On Mon, Jul 19,

Re: Tarjetas de video on-board

1999-07-20 Thread Ugo Enrico Albarello
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 04:42:30PM -0300, Marcelo Ramos wrote: Quizás la confusión viene de que el bus no tiene que ver directamente con el tipo físico de conexión. Todos los periféricos PCI utilizan cierto tipo de conector, pues es parte de la especificación, pero eso no quiere decir que

Re: Mutt peta al intentar leer un mensaje de esta lista

1999-07-20 Thread ely
On Fri, Jul 16, 1999 at 04:04:47PM -0600, Juan Leseduarte wrote: A mi tambien me pasa, el mutt se queda en fetching mail y luego da una violacion de segmento y bota un core. Alguien sabe la razon ? Ely Alvarado Hola: Pues eso. Cuando paso de un mensaje a otro de la lista llega un momento en

Perdonar pero no me aclaro

1999-07-20 Thread Antonio Castro
Yo deseo duplicar CD's de Debian y venderlos sin más a un buen precio. Además deseo hacerlo de forma no solo legal sino que claramente todo el mundo perciba como legal. Estamos hablando de software libre y busco la manera de evitarme la descarga de la red de un material que puede quedarse

Re: Impresion ahorro de tinta

1999-07-20 Thread Sergio Blanco Cuaresma
El dom, 18 jul 1999, Eduardo Borja Ramirez Ronco escribió: Sergio Blanco Cuaresma wrote: ¿Como puedo configurar Linux para que me imprima en modo ahorro de tinta con mi impresora HP Deskjet 694c? Utilizo StarOffice 5.1 pero no encuentro ninguna opcion donde indicarle como quiero

Soporte para sonido

1999-07-20 Thread npardo
: En el artículo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Marcelo Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Marcelo:: Hola, es mi primer mensaje en la lista. Me llamo Marcelo Marcelo:: Ramos y soy de Uruguay. Marcelo:: Tengo una duda: como se hace para tener sonido en Marcelo:: Linux. Tengo Debian 2.0

Re: Debian free pero ...

1999-07-20 Thread npardo
: En el artículo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] decía: Enrique:: On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 12:26:17AM +0200, Antonio Castro Enrique:: wrote: :: La licencia de Debian especifica que solo los trabajos :: independientes y separados por si mismos pueden evitar

RE: Tarjetas de video on-board

1999-07-20 Thread Shasquash
Hola, normalmente las placas con buses pci e isa, que llevan ademas de los puertos, los canales ide integrados y el subsistema grafico, suelen utilizar el bus pci para la tarjeta grafica y el ide, ademas algunos chips graficos durante el arranque indican el tipo de bus que estan usando, aunque

Problemas con pppd en pon

1999-07-20 Thread Roberto Ruiz
Hola todos: Mi isp cambió el esquema de acceso a internet, y cambió a servidores access servers, con lo cual, el script de conexión pon dejo de funcionar. Lo extraño de la situación, es que, si me conecto con el minicom y luego corro el pppd así: pppd /dev/ttyS0 noauth defaultroute Todo

WaveLAN

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Edward Christman
Does anybody have any insight (i.e. how to set up and use) on the waveLAN IEEE ad-hoc mode?

Re: Install Source Packages

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Klaus == Klaus Pieper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Klaus one with dselect and all the web packages were gone. So, is Klaus there any chance either to remove the old perl stuff and keep Klaus the dependent packages or can I build a deb package from the Klaus tar file? The equivs package from

Re: E-mail with exim tip.

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Stephen == Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..exim as daemon..] Stephen Uncomment the exit 0 line in /etc/init.d/exim. Also disable it in inetd.conf and reload the inetd config with /etc/init.d/inetd reload Ciao, Martin

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Michael == Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael I really have to step in here. The 'intuitive' argument is Michael habitually used to argue against *any* software that doesn't Michael conform in every way to the expectation of whoever is trying Michael to use it. Yes, and the

Re: Finding orphans?

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Gary == Gary L Hennigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gary Is there any way to find orphaned files/directories? Use package cruft. Ciao, Martin

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Doug == Doug Thistlethwaite [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug One more thing about Samba. Does anyone know why the Doug distribution does not have all of the tools that are described Doug on the samba site. Because the package has been broken up. Doug There is a file that describes a set of

Re: Setting Up During Installation

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
Kent == Kent Hayden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kent During installation, you're given an option to install by Kent tasks/profiles instead of dselect. Is there any way to access Kent this again later? Unfortunately no. I am currently looking at some way to make this possible for the next

Re: PPPuzzles

1999-07-20 Thread Martin Bialasinski
John == John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Even though I've configured exim, it doesn't by itself arouse pppd,... ...and so it doesn't actually send the messages. John You have to run it while connected to the Net. Type 'runq' as John root, or put runq in a script in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d.

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:08:38PM +0100 In reply to:Patrick Kirk Quoting Patrick Kirk([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hi Wayne, I like the idea of less time being wasted on repeating the same answers again and again. The problem with

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-20 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: why so much hate? Date: Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:39:08PM -0500 In reply to:John Foster Quoting John Foster([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Wayne Topa wrote: I didn't write that! I answered it but damm well didn't say that! Wayne Subject: why so much hate?

Re: Setup Issues

1999-07-20 Thread Doug Young
Ah that might be it . I used wvdial and don't recall it asking about DNS stuff although ifconfig worked like it should and I could ping some known IP addresses. I am impressed with the user friendliness of wvdial though, its a really pleasant change after all the weird stuff

Re: SV: Enlightenment

1999-07-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh, forgot one thing... I don't know what gfx card is in this box, has XF evolved since I tried it last, or do I still have to know what card it is? Anders Ohrt SuperProbe (in X) might be able to identify your gfx card, but there are no guarantees. So,

RE: New Users FAQ - comment?

1999-07-20 Thread Carley, Jason \(Australia\)
I too think that would be great. Unfortunately, I am so hopelessly bad at coding that the task will have to fall to someone else. I can string a sentence together though so maybe I can provide an interim solution through an FAQ. Jason. -Original Message- From: Robbie Huffman

upgrade glibc

1999-07-20 Thread Bill Shui
Hi, I have a Debian Hamm installed on my i386 machine, using glibc 2.0 and I really like to upgrade glibc to 2.1 but I followed the instruction from the GNU site, downloaded all the linux-threads, crypt, binutils, etc... and compiled binutils statically and then installed

Re: SV: Enlightenment

1999-07-20 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote: SuperProbe (in X) might be able to identify your gfx card, but there are no guarantees. So, I'd check with the docs that come /proc/pci is likely to identify your video card, if it is PCI.

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-20 Thread Buddha Buck
Jason Carley saieth: Sure there is room here for opinion. Mine however, as a new user of debian, is that dselect can be improved. It is not a slight on the fabric of debian merely an observation. Having just ben through the process of installation, I feel I can comment with some recency.

Re: apt-get on linux / download on NT

1999-07-20 Thread Carl Fink
In linux.debian.user, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I could put all the neede packages on a zip-disk. Both win and debian can read and write on that zip-disk, but the netconnection is now only with win95. Why not just manually download the needed files (using Lynx or whatever) and just use dpkg to

Re: clean umount?

1999-07-20 Thread John Carline
Wonko wrote: evrytime i restart it says hda2 not cleanly unmounted and it takes 10 minutes checking inodes or something like that... when i shutdown i type 'shutdown now' is this right? shutdown -h now is about as right as it gets change the -h to a -r if you want to reboot John i tried

Re: Printing Problem

1999-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 02:26:08AM +0800, Kelvin Chow wrote: Dear Debian Users, I am having trouble with printing. At first, I just couldn't get lpd running, but now it has started mysteriously. I managed to lpr file. I still have the following problem though. lpd should be

Re: E2fs failures

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
Which kernel version are you using. I understand that there has been a file corruption problem in some of the newer kernel versions. On 19 Jul, Andreas Tille wrote: | Hello, | | recently I detected problems with 2GB harddisk in an old 486 machine. | The disk worked for two years very

Re: What software to use for setting up an ISP web server on debian?

1999-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
For the web server, I would recommand apache. Have a look at the docs on www.apache.org. You can use apache to host virtual web servers, and configure the cgi-bin directory to each user. For the automation scripts, I don't know where to find them, but it is largely depending how you organise

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-20 Thread Lee Elliott
On 19-Jul-99, you wrote: Hello, I'm so new to debian that I haven't been able to install it successfully yet (probs with a SCSI card on an A1200) and haven't yet even thought about dselect, but I've enough computing experience (25 yrs) to have a view. I'm not sure if 'intuitive' is the right

Re: What provides glib.h?

1999-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
I believe you are missing glibconfig.h. Search on the debian web site and find out which package provides it. On Sat, Jul 17, 1999 at 09:12:59PM -0700, egm2@jps.net wrote: I was trying to recompile gphoto from source (to change a hardwired line speed parameter) but it errored when trying to

2_why_so_much_hate

1999-07-20 Thread altag
thanks. thankz a lot to every people wrote about this. this demonstrates 'dselect',among different opinions, can be felt like a 'problem' by every Debianer. i think that my previous exprezzion 'unfriendly' may be consider 'un'-happy. But in my personal opinion a strong consideration of renewing

Re: problem with .xsession

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
My experience has been that it's better to start those applications before you start your window manager. Also, I've had problems when the window manager isn't exec'ed. Try: swisswatch xload xbiff exec enlightenment I've been running gnome-session (which usually remembers the applications

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
As root, do shutdown -h now. where now means shutting down the machine immediately. For more info, man shutdown. On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 12:50:52PM -0500, André Bell wrote: Everytime I restart my debian pc after having turned it off debian tells me at bootup that devices were not unmounted

Re: apt-get on linux / download on NT

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
I believe there's a APT Offline Howto that is just what your looking for. I can't seem to find it since my recent update that moved documentation all over kingdom come. Search in the debian docs on apt... On 19 Jul, Joel Gautschi wrote: | I want to do the following thing: | I have a

Re: Remove cronjob is safe?

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
On 19 Jul, andreas pålsson wrote: | Hello. | | My logfiles are filled by the line /USR/SBIN/CRON[7637]: (root) CMD | (test -f /proc/modules /sbin/rmmod -a). | And I find it be unnecessary to run any commands related to modules | since I have no modules and no module-support in

Re: Setup Issues

1999-07-20 Thread Doug Young
I think you get this when DNS lookup failed. Check to make sure you have DNS addresses set up in /etc/resolv.conf. (man resolv.conf) I think resolv.conf is set right .. first line is just server homepage, second third ones are primary secondary DNS numbers lynx still not doing

Re: Adding users - two quick questions

1999-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:01:48PM +0100, Patrick Kirk wrote: Hi all, When I add users, they get this when they login: enterprise login: newuser Password: No directory, logging in with HOME=/ No mail. That is very strange. What command did you use to add the user? Check out

Re: fsck: Duplicate blocks error

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
SNIP | Only unusual thing I did prior to this is attempting to create a new | user with not so good results: the new user's home directory was | created, and so is the line in /etc/passwd: | | usermaria:x:1001:100::/home/usermaria:/bin/bash | | but I cannot log in as the

bbdb and PalmPilot

1999-07-20 Thread Felipe Alvarez Harnecker
Hi Does someone know about some package to sync the BIG brother data base (bbdb) and the palm pilot? under Linux of course. Thanks. -- __ Felipe Alvarez Harnecker. QlSoftware. Tel. 09.874.60.17 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What provides glib.h?

1999-07-20 Thread Carl Mummert
from konica_qm100.c:7: /usr/include/glib.h:66: glibconfig.h: No such file or directory make[2]: *** [konica_qm100.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/gphoto/gphoto-0.3-2-990422/konica' make[1]: *** [../konica/libgphoto_konica_qm100.so] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving

Re: Download af linux

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
On 19 Jul, henriktrolle wrote: | hvor kan jeg downloade linux operativ system ftp://ftp.dk.debian/org/debian You'll need boot/root/install floppies. Easier to order a CD from someplace like Cheapbytes (http://www.cheapbytes.com). -- Eric G. Miller Powered by the POTATO

Re: apache-ssl vhosts...

1999-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
I am not sure whether you can have the ip addr for the VirtualHost. Try this: VirtualHost www.jounce.net DocumentRoot /var/www/ ServerName www.jounce.net /VirtualHost VirtualHost webmail.jounce.net DocumentRoot /usr/share/horde/imp/ ServerName webmail.jounce.net /VirtualHost On Mon, Jul 19,

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
look under /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/XF86Config Of course, you must be root to configure the graphics display. The locate command can be your friend when an executable is not in your $PATH. On 19 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I though I'd try to spice my new debian computer up a bit, and

Re: Here's an easy question, how shutdown debian?

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
On 19 Jul, Hans van den Boogert wrote: | | shutdown -h now is good. Remember to run it as root. | | reboot | | KDE comes with KDM which has a shutdown function which ordinary users also | can invoke. Seems handy for stand alone PCs, but on a network this might | be

Re: Maintaining a permanent connection to the net with pppd.

1999-07-20 Thread John Hasler
shaul writes: What bothers me is that the HOWTO maintainer does not mention the persist option of the PPP daemon. That HOWTO is obsolete. Ignore it. To maintain a persistent ppp connection put 'persist' in the appropriate provider file. If you want ppp to start on boot rename

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Carl Mummert
I was looking in my mail dir today and noticed my debian-user folder exceeds 4 Meg for this month. In reviewing the question and answers for the last few days, it seems like there is a lot of wasted bandwidth. I like the idea of less time being wasted on repeating the same answers

Re: Re: getty vs minicom

1999-07-20 Thread andrew.macintyre
On the bo (1.3.1) system I tried this on, I got: vesta# dpkg -S /sbin/getty getty: /sbin/getty Which as I said, lead me up a blind ally. From your response, I have just tried: vesta# dpkg -s getty Package: getty Essential: yes Status: install ok installed Priority: required Section: base

is this legal

1999-07-20 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Just wondering, is it legal to send some IGMP packets to some win9*/NT machines?? Thanks. Shao. -- Shao Zhang - Running Debian 2.1 ___ _ _ Department of Communications/ __| |_

Re: Setup Issues

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
Look at man ping (use ping -c [n] [www.someplace.org] - where is the number of pings). Ctrl-C should also stop it. In lynx.cfg STARTFILE:file//localhost/var/www/index.html will open the file /var/www/index.html The localhost should preceed the rest of the regular file path.

Re: 2_why_so_much_hate

1999-07-20 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 19 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 2_why_so_much_hate Maybe- Dselect is for Debian what Vim is for every Unixier. bye- . Not for me. =). I am very comfortable in dselect and never use vi or its clones, I have been using *nix os's since around '87. -- Brian

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Stenner
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 10:53:02PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote: usage summary. Anything else I thought of seemed to be loosing functionality. and we can't have stray functionality running about unchecked... sorry... -- Michael Stenner Office Phone: 919-660-2513 Duke

Re: clean umount?

1999-07-20 Thread egm2
On 19 Jul, Wonko wrote: | evrytime i restart it says hda2 not cleanly unmounted and it takes 10 | minutes checking inodes or something like that... when i shutdown i type | 'shutdown now' is this right? i tried all the number combinations in | fstab and nothing works, what should i do?

SupraExpress Modem problems

1999-07-20 Thread Julian Gilbey
[Please Cc: me in replies.] I have just tried setting up a Debian system for someone, and have been unable to get his modem to work. The details are: - fresh slink (Debian 2.1) installation from the official CDs on a Pentium. - Windows reports the modem to be a SupraExpress 56i Sp Intl -

RE: SupraExpress Modem problems

1999-07-20 Thread Pollywog
On 20-Jul-99 Julian Gilbey wrote: [Please Cc: me in replies.] I have just tried setting up a Debian system for someone, and have been unable to get his modem to work. The details are: - fresh slink (Debian 2.1) installation from the official CDs on a Pentium. - Windows reports the

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Michael Merten
On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 02:15:13PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: Debian-user I was looking in my mail dir today and noticed my debian-user folder exceeds 4 Meg for this month. In reviewing the question and answers for the last few days, it seems like there is a lot of wasted bandwidth.

Lynx Problems

1999-07-20 Thread Doug Young
Does anyone know of a real basic web browser thats simple to setup configure. I am fast running out of patience with lynx due to its virtually useless documentation and excessively complicated config file.

Re: Questions after recompiling kernel

1999-07-20 Thread Stuart Ballard
David Wright wrote: Quoting Stuart Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I just compiled kernel 2.2.10 on my potato machine. This is the first time I've ever compiled a kernel, so these questions are probably elementary, but I can't find the right docs anywhere... [Snipped question about

giving gnome a try

1999-07-20 Thread JonesMB
I am tired of FVWM95 and its apparent limitations and lack of new development so I am ready for a new window manager. Plus I wanna try something new and maybe break my system :-) I am currently downloading gnome as I type this. I considered KDE and settled on gnome. I am getting it from

Spread the wealth, that's what I always say. [was Re: giving gnome a try]

1999-07-20 Thread Matthew Dalton
I wouldn't mind knowing those gotchas as well, so it would be appreciated if the debian-user list was cc'd on any replies to this question. Thanks, Matt JonesMB wrote: All you gnome users out there, if there are any gotchas you think I should know please let me know via private email.

Re: xdvi problem after upgrade

1999-07-20 Thread William Park
On Thu, Jul 15, 1999 at 02:36:44PM +1000, Tadeusz Bak wrote: Hi all, After upgrading the system from Debian2.0 to Debian2.1 (slink) something strange happend to the fonts in xdvi. The letters are colored a bit and look like doubled. Can someone please give me an advice what files should I

Re: New Users FAQ - comment?

1999-07-20 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Tue, Jul 20, 1999 at 08:11:17AM +1000, Carley, Jason Australia wrote: I would be happy to look at putting such a list together. Essentially a QA of the most common questions asked on the list. As a relative newbie myself this will also help me learn more about my system. However, I may also

ACK! Too many ftpds.

1999-07-20 Thread Robert Rati
I want to try and setup an ftp server and wanted to try using proftp as my ftp daemon. I tried to configure it, but when I ftp to the server, I don't get proftpd. I get some other ftp daemon. I did a dpkg -S ftpd and found that netstd appears to have a couple of ftp deamons in it. Can anyone

Re: ACK! Too many ftpds.

1999-07-20 Thread Carl Mummert
You can turn off the netstd ftpd by commenting out the apprpriate line in /etc/inetd.conf and then '/etc/init.d/netbase restart'. As for proftpd, I am not sure if it wants to ru under inetd or as its own daemon. Look for an entry (maybe commented out) in /etc/inetd.conf, look for

Re: xdvi problem after upgrade

1999-07-20 Thread Tadeusz Bak
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, William Park wrote: Try removing all the old .pk files, and run 'xdvi' again. Thanks for your suggestion. I deleted them, after running xdvi new fonts were generated but unfortunately that didn't fix the problem. Still the text is almost unreadable. I never had any

Re: E2fs failures

1999-07-20 Thread Andreas Tille
On Mon, 19 Jul 1999 egm2@jps.net wrote: Which kernel version are you using. I understand that there has been a file corruption problem in some of the newer kernel versions. In the last test I was using 2.2.3 but the first problems occured while using 2.0.34. Kind regards Andreas.

Re: Lynx Problems

1999-07-20 Thread Gerhard Kroder
Doug Young wrote: Does anyone know of a real basic web browser thats simple to setup configure. I am fast running out of patience with lynx due to its virtually useless documentation and excessively complicated config file. you are thinking in terms of netscape or similar? why don't you

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-20 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the information! The smbclient is in its own package. I fixed my samba installation by re-creating the password file for samba. I think that the problem was that when I first installed samba, I did not use a separate password file (I don't even remember if it was an option at that

Re: samba password changes after potato upgrade

1999-07-20 Thread Doug Thistlethwaite
Thanks for the information James, My first instalation was using plain text passwords. The latest version didn't transfer that setting from my old config. Craig, I found this out before I read your message, but you are completely correct. I recreated the users and passwords and everything

Re: What provides glib.h?

1999-07-20 Thread Jens Ritter
Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I believe you are missing glibconfig.h. Search on the debian web site and find out which package provides it. [...] snipstuff that compiles/snip make -C ../konica libgphoto_konica_qm100.so make[2]: Entering directory

Re: What provides glib.h?

1999-07-20 Thread Jens Ritter
I missed to say that it is in the libgtk1.2-dev package. Jens P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ (Sorry Europeans only) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05

Re: What provides glib.h?

1999-07-20 Thread Jens Ritter
...and the libglib1.2-dev packages. Sorry, Jens P.S.: Please vote against Spam! At http://www.politik-digital.de/spam/ (Sorry Europeans only) --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key ID: 2048/E451C639 Jens Ritter Key fingerprint: 5F 3D 43 1E 24 1E CC 48 1E 05 93 3A A7 10 73

Re: SupraExpress Modem problems

1999-07-20 Thread David Karlin
Julian, I just installed a Diamond Supra Express in a slink box this evening. The first thing I did was disable PNP and set the com port and irq via the jumpers (see Appendix A of the Supra Express Getting Started Manual). I was lucky that I knew the com port and irq settings of the old modem;

HELP: cannot get serial info: inapropriated ioctl for device?????

1999-07-20 Thread Bruno Boettcher
hello, since some weeks i have lost the usage of the pcmcia modem... it coincides with the upgrade to potato. i rebuild a kernel (2.2.10 with the serial patch preconized by pcmcia package due to a bug in the kernel code), but nothing helps, i can't get access to the modem, trying with kermit

Re: 2_why_so_much_hate

1999-07-20 Thread Ed Cogburn
Brian Servis wrote: *- On 19 Jul, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 2_why_so_much_hate Maybe- Dselect is for Debian what Vim is for every Unixier. bye- . Not for me. =). I am very comfortable in dselect and never use vi or its clones, I have been using *nix os's since around '87. --

ASUS' SM910 video chip

1999-07-20 Thread Bakosi Jozsef
Hi, Does anybody know any possibility to use the graphics-acceleration under Debian with the ASUS L7300 notebook's SM910 graphics chip or I have to wait the driver from SiliconMotion? Regards, Jozsef from Hungary

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Stephan Engelke
Hi folks, On Mon, Jul 19, 1999 at 09:57:26PM -0400, Carl Mummert wrote: One issue: there is already a lot of documentation out there. ( I will not vouch for its quality or lack thereof, but volume is something that it does not lack). Every package should have a manpage, and often there is

Mouse

1999-07-20 Thread Anders . ohrt
I can't get my mouse to work... It's a standard MS serial mouse 2.0a, 2 button. It's connected to COM1. When running gpmconfig it says /dev/lots: Operation not supported by device, and then gpmconfig puts it som /dev/ttyS0, and I get another Operation not supported by device. Anders Ohrt

gcc does not find stddef.h

1999-07-20 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hello all, trying to compile xracer, I get the following error: make: *** No rule to make target `/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linux/2.7.2.3/include/stddef.h', needed by `main.o'. Stop. xracer's main.c starts with some usual stuff: #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include sys/time.h #if

Re: upgrade glibc

1999-07-20 Thread Peter Makholm
Bill Shui [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and I really like to upgrade glibc to 2.1 but I followed the instruction from the GNU site, downloaded all the any suggestions? Yes: Next time use the debian packages from unstable when you want to upgrade anything. I don't know what

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Doug Young
I have been following this discussion with considerable interest as its been my main bone of contention ever since I started trying to learn unix O/S. The issue as far as I am concerned, and probably the majority of newbies .. is one of usable documentation rather than the actual volume of

Re: ASUS' SM910 video chip

1999-07-20 Thread Bakosi Jozsef
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings, I got a Omnibook XEwith a Silicon Motion LynxE inside( chipset is SM810 ). Do you have X11 running ? Personnaly, no. I wrote to HP and SM in order to have useful infos on SM810 to make the driver for X. I go on with asking them

Is IRC #debian used often?

1999-07-20 Thread Brian Greenfield
Just out of interest, I took a look at #debian on undernet (I tried a few servers, details upon request). Rather, I *tried* to join #debian, but there wasn't a #debian to join:( So, is it used -- it is undernet isn't it? My apologies for any technical inexactitudes contained in this post -- I've

Re: Suggestion for Newbie Guide Lines

1999-07-20 Thread Patrick Kirk
Addendum to Wayne's suggestion... There are articles and how-tos that are often hard to find. For example, everyone setting up a small mail server should first read http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue43/stumpel.html. I will keep a draft message as a template and send it wherever appropriate and

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