Arreglar la partición de Linux.

1999-12-06 Thread Emilio Hernández Martín
Hola a todos. Después de varios días sin haber podido arreglar los problemas que tenía con mi Linux (Debian 2.1 slink) o, mejor dicho, con la partición /dev/hda1 donde lo tenía, he decidido volver a instalarlo de nuevo. Pero al iniciar el proceso de instalación desde CDROM, al llegar a

Re: smarthost

1999-12-06 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
El Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 04:15:58PM -0300, Blu contaba: En fin, les contare cuando lo logre a mano. Pon primero el 'smart_host'. Si no, la configuración te va a utilizar el primero que le tengas definido O;-) En cualquier caso no sería interesante que tuvieras definido más de un 'router', por lo

US Robotics

1999-12-06 Thread Luis Clausell
Yep! Tengo configurado el mgetty-*_1.1.21-2 para que atienda las llamadas de voz entrantes, o sea, como contestador :-) Con la intención de poder enviar y recibir faxes también, cambio el Zoltrix 56k que tenía por un US Robotics 56k Message. Desde entonces, no es capaz de contestar las

Re: Sobre gnus/emacs

1999-12-06 Thread Jesus Rodrigo
Antonio == Antonio Beamud Montero [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hola! Pelín tarde, sorry... O:) Antonio Hola: Solo es una pequeña cuestion: Cuando intento mandar Antonio un fichero, gnus me lo parte en trozos, y a la gente que Antonio no usa emacs, no sabe como recomponerlos (si tienen

lpr

1999-12-06 Thread Eric Hagglund
I have not been able to get my printer to print. I spent an hour on Saturday with a local Linux Users Group, and none of them had any familiarity with Debian. They were able to get the program to run, but the best they could do was to get the word hi to print once. Any other output was returned as

Re: system logs management

1999-12-06 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 5 Dec 99 20:33:06 GMT John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What steps do users take to keep logs down to reasonable sizes? I have seen nothing on this aspect of management and so have been using 'rm' and then creating a new file. Look into the logrotate package. If it is possible, I

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Colin writes: It seems to me that there are two plausible routes to breaking the GPL. The first is to demonstrate that the licence is not binding. No commercial software organization is going to go down that route; it would be suicide. I assume that by not binding you mean legally equivalent

Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?

1999-12-06 Thread ktb
Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:57:12PM -0600, ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote: [[[SNIP]]] As it is I can boot to all three os's but the kernel I have compiled for Slink is 2.0.36. When I boot from lilo into Slink at this

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, David Blackman wrote: david Slackware is just too much of a hassle. Plus, they were drawn to apt-get. i was drawn to debian about a year and a half ago, never touched apt-get till about 2 weeks ago! doh heheh david No it's not. i like the idea of that, with debian's

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread J C Lawrence
On Mon, 06 Dec 1999 08:51:31 +1100 Frank Copeland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Blackman wrote: Lately I've been thinking about forking Debian, into DWA, meaning Debian Without Attitude. We'll drop the attitude, and the pretenses, about what Free means, and get licensing deals with Corel,

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Colin Watson wrote: cjw44 The GPL is not a complicated document. Even I can understand it. And, as cjw44 far as I can tell, it *is* legally valid. If you have a suspicion of how cjw44 it could be legally broken - particularly in the current climate - I'd cjw44 be interested to

Re: lpr

1999-12-06 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Eric Hagglund wrote: I have not been able to get my printer to print. I What printer package are you using? Are you using something like apsfilter or magicfilter? The problem you are describing seems to have somthing to do with dos vs linuix termination. I remember reading

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
Sounds right.. most all cards are at least VESA1.0 compliant right? And I'm sure it isnt hard to achieve 640x480x256 colors with a VESA 1 driver. Something along the lines of SVGALIB maybe but svgalib isnt supported by much. The problem I think is companies trying to use X for the install just

Re: Accelerated X

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
try apt-get install termcap-compat nate On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Rick Knebel wrote: rknebe Hi, rknebe rknebe I went to the Xig.com web site and they say to use Accelaerated X with rknebe debian i have to load the termcomp package. rknebe I have looked all through the cd's for this . rknebe Could

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
I dont know what exactly is installed when(if) your using a debian binary kernel but if your compiling from source make sure you enable the Parellel printer support option in character devices when your making the kernel. I also suggest you cat a file directly to the port and see what happens. at

Re: MySql and C

1999-12-06 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, Raphaël Barbate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's why I ask you if you could send me an example (.c), which connects to mysql and performs some queries. Here are some examples: // Extablish a tcp connection with the SQL database int connectSQL() { MYSQL

Re: kpathsea/metafont/docbook and fonts

1999-12-06 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Aaron Van Couwenberghe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I was recently trying to render a pdf from docbook, but the farthest I got was TeX. Upon calling jadetex on jade's output, metafont dumped a bunch of complaints about missing files. Well, I cannot answer your question exactly, but to get

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:11:03PM -0500, David Blackman wrote: Debian is a wonderful development model. Anyone can contribute to it. Remember this statement ;) And everything must be Free Software, Free Software in the sense that it must be both open source, and modifiable. Open

Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?

1999-12-06 Thread ktb
ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:57:12PM -0600, ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:46:46AM -0600, ktb wrote: [[[SNIP]]] As it is I can boot to all three os's but the kernel I have compiled for Slink is 2.0.36. When I boot

Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?

1999-12-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 06:25:35PM -0600, ktb wrote: Ok I already changed the mbr back to windows default and reran lilo from Slink and now I boot directly into Slink on startup. I'm not entirely sure what your getting at here but I've reversed this and did, mkdir /mnt/redhat; mount -t

Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
I've discovered that the Slink pdflatex doesn't do everything I'd like it to do, so I'm trying to force LaTeX proper to incorporate Computer Modern Type 1 fonts into its PostScript files for conversion to PDF later. I have all the Blue Sky fonts, and pdflatex uses them, but LaTeX still uses the

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 04:41:26PM -0800, aphro wrote: I dont know what exactly is installed when(if) your using a debian binary kernel but if your compiling from source make sure you enable the Parellel printer support option in character devices when your making the kernel. Hi Nate, Sure I

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I also suggest you cat a file directly to the port and see what happens. at least then you know you have communication and later you can work on the lpd/magicfilter problems. When I do 'cat ZZZ.txt /dev/lp0' it says 'operation

Re: linux.debian.user gatewayed no more?

1999-12-06 Thread Colin Watson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carel Fellinger) wrote: I could switch to the digest of the mailinglist but I prefer news. I could bridge the mailinglist locally, but I heard that you object. Do they? I have mail2news set up locally; I wouldn't read debian-* if I hadn't. I've been intending to learn to use a

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:33:29PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... I also suggest you cat a file directly to the port and see what happens. at least then you know you have communication and later you can work on the lpd/magicfilter

streaming audio? (Re: wav - conversion utility)

1999-12-06 Thread byoung
thanx for the pointers. i tried to get the LAME, but wasn't able to. i'll try that again. btw, to provide streaming audio (i.e., realaudio, unless there is something else that is easily accessbible by general public), is there an alternative to the tools sold by realaudio? i suspect the

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:33:29PM -0600, Phil Brutsche wrote: When I do 'cat ZZZ.txt /dev/lp0' it says 'operation not supported' In that case, are you sure that /dev/lp0 is correct? Have you tried /dev/lp1 or /dev/lp2?

Get a Potato CD

1999-12-06 Thread John Dalbec
Where does one do this?? Or does it require a friend with a fast connection and CD burner? John

How to apply stylesheets to docbook?

1999-12-06 Thread Aaron Van Couwenberghe
Hi all - I have been trying to figure out how to make something useful out of docbook documents. I'd like to render to pdf, latex, groff, and html, but available documentation is archaic and conflicting. Where do I start? I'd previously been trying with jade, but I caught wind that sgml-tools

Re: pppd, named and netscape

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 11:12:05AM -0700, Douglas Eck wrote: First, an easy question. Is there a simple way to get -idle to override -persistent. I want to redial until I get connected, but if I forget to log off, I want the modem to hang up after 15 minutes. This seems like a reasonble thing

New to gcc: missing sin/cos

1999-12-06 Thread Brian G. Neal
I am trying to port some C code from Windows (i.e. no makefile) and I am using gcc for the first time. One of the files has some sin() and cos() calls in it. And yes it includes math.h. If I do a: % gcc -o main main.c file1.c file2.c I get some error messages about not finding sin and cos. I

Re: New to gcc: missing sin/cos

1999-12-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Brian G. Neal wrote: I assume I need to include some library that has sin/cos. I found the -l switch to pass libraries to the linker but I have no idea what library to use. Am I missing something You need to use -lm (link libm, the math library).

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1 fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman, Helvetica, Courier [New?], and Zapf Dingbats will render well on the display (though

Re: New to gcc: missing sin/cos

1999-12-06 Thread Eric G . Miller
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 09:09:14PM -0600, Brian G. Neal wrote: I am trying to port some C code from Windows (i.e. no makefile) and I am using gcc for the first time. One of the files has some sin() and cos() calls in it. And yes it includes math.h. If I do a: % gcc -o main main.c file1.c

Re: Slink, Redhat, Windows boot from lilo?

1999-12-06 Thread Brad
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 07:36:17PM -0600, ktb wrote: Brad wrote: On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 06:59:51PM -0600, ktb wrote: Syntax error near line 50 in file /etc/lilo.conf Could you send me your lilo.conf that's giving this error? [[[SNIP]]] image=/mnt/rh/boot/vmlinuz

Trying to install X on top of Linux 2.1

1999-12-06 Thread csager
XF86Setup tells me Congradulations, you now have a working server and returns me to the prompt. But when I type: startx The following errors are printed to the screen: == (--) SVGA: Revision 0 (--) SVGA: chipset: tvga8900cl (--) SVGA: videoram:

Re: Trying to install X on top of Linux 2.1

1999-12-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... [...] I've tried all combinations of color depth and display types (600 X 800, 640 X 480 etc.) I don't know what the verticl and Horizontal sync rates are for an EverView monitor. That's what the problem is. What settings did you

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On 5/12/99 Bart Szyszka wrote: This is exactly what I was thinking. The windows installer uses a generic 16-color, 640x480 mode (Standard SVGA or just Standard VGA?) and I've never heard of anyone having graphic-card related problems with it. Why can't someone do something similar with Linux?

Re: Get a Potato CD

1999-12-06 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 09:48:25PM -0500, John Dalbec wrote: Where does one do this?? Or does it require a friend with a fast connection and CD burner? John Can't help you with finding one, but there's a caveat: I think the reason that the potato release date got pushed back was the

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread J C Lawrence
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 16:53:41 -0800 (PST) George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, J C Lawrence wrote: There are a great many people for whom the only particular value Debian brings to the table is apt-get and friends. They have no interest in religion, no interest or

Re: linux.debian.user gatewayed no more?

1999-12-06 Thread Brad
According to a message in the list archives, it's just broken. http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9911/msg02286.html -- finger for GPG public key. 29 Nov 1999 - new email address added to gpg key pgpvieGT1X3Zv.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Corel to Slink upgrade

1999-12-06 Thread Randy Edwards
actually sounds kinda scary. Flashback to when AOL entered the Internet?! :-) I dunno, I'm working up a default reply now that points people to Corel's support newsgroups...or should we instead work to bring those folks away from the dark side? :-) -- Regards,| Debian

Re: Get a Potato CD

1999-12-06 Thread Ethan Benson
On 5/12/99 Rob Mahurin wrote: Can't help you with finding one, but there's a caveat: I think the reason that the potato release date got pushed back was the installer's broken (or nonexistent or something. I'm wrong a lot). Get a bare-bones (ie, bootable and aptable) slink installation and

RE: Trying to install X on top of Linux 2.1

1999-12-06 Thread John Gay
XF86Setup tells me Congradulations, you now have a working server and returns me to the prompt. But when I type: startx The following errors are printed to the screen: == (--) SVGA: Revision 0 (--) SVGA: chipset: tvga8900cl (--) SVGA:

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread John Hasler
Ethan Benson writes: MS simply has a `more generic' server then we do. But through Microsoft's efforts. Consider the fate of a video card maker whose card does not work with Microsofts generic driver. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin

Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Ron Hale-Evans
Apologies if you have received this message twice. I've discovered that the Slink pdflatex doesn't do everything I'd like it to do, so I'm trying to force LaTeX proper to incorporate Computer Modern Type 1 fonts into its PostScript files for conversion to PDF later. I have all the Blue Sky

Re: How to apply stylesheets to docbook?

1999-12-06 Thread Jor-el
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: Hi all - I have been trying to figure out how to make something useful out of docbook documents. I'd like to render to pdf, latex, groff, and html, but available documentation is archaic and conflicting. Where do I start? I'd previously

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb Hi Nate, Sure I compiled it from the source, and enabled // port. Ok, just want to re verify that you enabled parallel *printer* support, they are different options in kernel config, the one im talking about is in the character devices menu.

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb I can't get my TV card to work well too (it was 4 weeks ago). jybarb I'll try to exchange it next wednesday to see what will happend. What kind of TV card? I have been using Bt848 based TV cards for ages under linux, no trouble, if its this

Re: streaming audio? (Re: wav - conversion utility)

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, byoung wrote: b- i tried to get the LAME, but wasn't able to. i'll try that again. its a good player, and check into not-lame its a breakoff(?) of lame, and has a different homepage, although the lame page links to it. b- btw, to provide streaming audio (i.e., realaudio,

Re: trapped in an xdm loop?

1999-12-06 Thread Phillip Rulon
Resent-Cc: recipient list not shown: ; X-Envelope-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Old-Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 14:34:26 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Servis [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org MIME-Version: 1.0

Which laptop?

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
I am looking into getting a new laptop and wanted to know what you all reccomend in terms of linux compadiblity. I think my best bet is to go with the linux certified laptops from www.affordablecomputers.com they had a beta program and have a couple lines that are tested compadible. At good

Questions

1999-12-06 Thread Andy Thomas
The mouse isn't coming up in XWindows. I've never seen it in text Emacs before either so should it be there? I've got a MSFT Bus mouse on IRQ4. The gpm is set to /dev/inportbm and the busmouse type. Still it doesn't seem to work. Is there a configuration file where it could accidentally be

ipmasqadm

1999-12-06 Thread Dave Wiard
could somebody give me some pointers on how to use ipmasqadm? i don't seem to have a man page for it and 'usage: ipmasqadm MODULE [opts] ' doesn't help me much. i don't have a lot of experience with loadable modules and such. -- dave wiard computer science [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to enable logout/halt/reboot as ordinary user?

1999-12-06 Thread Jens Lautenbacher
Owen Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The shutdown/reboot functionality in the logout dialog is based on a package called 'usermode' which build on top of the PAM authentication system. On a related note, I think it is very inconsistent and not understandable from a normal users point of

apt-get

1999-12-06 Thread Nathan York
whenever i do an apt-get install or anything for that matter it tries to remove lm-sensorsthis causes apt-get to stop due to errors received. how can i tell apt-get that lm-sensors is removed and that it need not remove it for me. craz [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread Godric
George Bonser wrote: The computer is a tool. People often use it to get real work done with real deadlines. Real money depends on this work. Debian offers the best ENVORONMENT, so far, for maintaining and supporting software for Linux in the enterprise. Not so cut-and dried. Debian offers

Re: apt-get

1999-12-06 Thread Nathan York
tried that and i get the following errors: depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented returned error exit status 255 this disallows me from getting any farther in the upgrade... craz [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, George Bonser

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread Godric
George Bonser wrote: Embracing commercial software at first is the path to eventually winning. Let the commercial vendors in ... let them penetrate deep into linux. Then surround and destory them with free alternatives once you have them committed to your platform or convince them of the

Re: Make a network firewall with real IPs

1999-12-06 Thread Onno
Don't forget to set your internet interface in promicuous mode ;-) Then do your route and ipchains stuff... Regards, Onno At 09:30 AM 12/2/13 -0200, Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira wrote: Hi all, I have a computer (486 SX 33 - 16 Mb - 2 ethernet cards) that I want to put to

Vincent and the Potato CD

1999-12-06 Thread Egbert Bouwman
Several times last week Brian Servis had an opportunity to show us the way to www.debian.org/~vincent for some x11 upates within slink. Thanks, Brian. However, the Megabytes involved are more than I would like my telephone to listen to. Another option are the potato CDs. According to the latest

Re: ipmasqadm

1999-12-06 Thread Ralf G. R. Bergs
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:38:48 -0800 (PST), Dave Wiard wrote: could somebody give me some pointers on how to use ipmasqadm? i don't Use it e.g. to forward accesses to a port on your firewall to an internal machine like this: /usr/sbin/ipmasqadm portfw -a -P tcp -L $EXT_IP ssh -R $INT_HOST ssh

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Sun, Dec 05, 1999 at 10:11:15PM -0800, aphro wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb I can't get my TV card to work well too (it was 4 weeks ago). jybarb I'll try to exchange it next wednesday to see what will happend. What kind of TV card? I have been using Bt848

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Ted Harding
On 05-Dec-99 Bart Szyszka wrote: My guess is that the windows install probably uses the same lowest-common-denominator graphics mode (it looks like it to me) ... If this is the case then the x-based setup routines should be written for a standard 640x480x16 mode, regardless of which video

problem with e2fsprogs

1999-12-06 Thread F . Roccato
Hi all, i'm trying to configure a scsi disk: I have 3 primary partitions the command mke2fs /dev/sdb1 works... mke2fs /dev/sdb2 works... mke2fs /dev/sdb3 don't. Here the output: mke2fs /dev/sdb3 mke2fs 1.18, 11-Nov-1999 for EXT2 FS 0.5b, 95/08/09 mke2fs: Device not configured while

Re: Which laptop?

1999-12-06 Thread Martin Fluch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, aphro wrote: I am looking into getting a new laptop and wanted to know what you all reccomend in terms of linux compadiblity. I think my best bet is to go with the linux certified laptops from www.affordablecomputers.com they had a

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-06 Thread Rick Dunnivan
This is what I think I'll try. Download to my windows/dos partition...reboot into linux...mount my dos partition...use the downloads directly from my dos partiton to upgrade XFree86. Is there a bundle of somekind I can download instead of downloading all these files one at a time? = rick

Re: What video card do I use?

1999-12-06 Thread Rick Dunnivan
This is what I think I'll try. Download to my windows/dos partition...reboot into linux...mount my dos partition...use the downloads directly from my dos partiton to upgrade XFree86. Is there a bundle of somekind I can download instead of downloading all these files one at a time? Actually,

Re: SMP

1999-12-06 Thread Phil Brutsche
A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said... Phil Brutsche wrote: Expect few to no problems if you upgrade to 2.2.x as soon as possible (SMP support in 2.0.x, which is the default in slink, isn't all that hot). What do you mean by that? I have a default Slink installation, I

XF86_Banshee

1999-12-06 Thread gilles . fenoll
Hi, Could anyone tell me how to install the Xbanshee server that I got by creative. I have more practice of other distribution, like Mandrake (RedHat) and SuSE, Ididn't found any problems for install and setup of X on those distrib. Maybe th XF86Config, or any file is not at the same place. and

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Allard
Now what makes Windows so incapable of having these same problems? I've never heard of anyone having trouble running the Win95 installer on a system that just had DOS because of video hardware. I had trouble installing Windows 95 on a machine with a Diamond Stealth II video card. Turns

Re: Broken web browsing

1999-12-06 Thread Tom Allard
My problem is that I can't get any web browsers to work. I use wvdial to connect to MindSpring and the ppp connection seems fine. I can use telnet, ssh and ftp to connect to sites on the internet. My resolv.conf seems to work fine and I can use nslookup to find the IP addresses of

Re: apt-get

1999-12-06 Thread Pollywog
On 06-Dec-1999 Nathan York wrote: tried that and i get the following errors: depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented depmod: QM_MODULES: Function not implemented returned error exit status 255 this disallows me from getting any farther in the upgrade... How about installing

Re: Which laptop?

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Sun, 5 Dec 1999, George Bonser wrote: grep Well, LinuxLaptops.com has systems that ship with Debian on them. grep grep http://www.linuxlaptops.com/ll/attache1.html grep grep But it is a bit out of your price range at $2488 They look kickass, i will try to get one! wonder what kinda mood

Re: lpr problem [Ooops, forgot infos]

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Jean-Yves BARBIER wrote: jybarb A MIRO PCTV (w/ bt848 chipset); that's why I think that the motherboard jybarb fault (well, in fact I think its the HPT366 controler fault, everything jybarb goes wrong, even under w$98, since its drivers are installed). ahh ok. My BP6 has the

Re: SMP

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Blazej Sawionek wrote: B.Sawi support in 2.0.x, which is the default in slink, isn't all that hot). B.Sawi What do you mean by that? I have a default Slink installation, I recompiled the kernel for SMP, and it _seems_ to work correctly (e.g. MATLAB benchmark shows a

Re: An open letter to the debian community

1999-12-06 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya george/et.al i think that debian might or might not suffer the same fate as all the other linux's - being absorbed into a commercial company or not ... ( at least the major players will be... - linux could also become the shareware/freeware compared to old world of

Can't type in X

1999-12-06 Thread Raphael Clancy
Here's my sad story. To start, I have the worst video card ever... It's based on SiS 530 chipset. It's built on to the mother board oad uses 8 megs of system memory for graphics, of course it uses the first 8 megs, so any calls to memory have to be routed around the graphics, which is

potato openssh

1999-12-06 Thread hservoma
Hi all, After upgrading to potato I found that (open)ssh does not work with tcp_wrappers and X-forwarding. Trying to connect from my machine yields the following bit of error with the -v switch. .. ... debug: Requesting X11 forwarding with authentication spoofing. debug: Requesting

Unidentified subject!

1999-12-06 Thread Rick Dunnivan
I have an Ultra66 ATA hard drive controller card on my computer. When attempting to load debian onto it, it would not recognize the hard drive. I unplugged the drive from the controller and plugged it into the IDE on the mother board and it works fine. My question: Is there a way for debian to

Apache DBI problems

1999-12-06 Thread Ferenc Kiraly
Hi! I have a very recent poptato installation on a new server and I am supposed to migrate all my web applications from the old server to this new one. However as soon as I load the Apache::DBI or the DBI perl module form httpd.conf or from my startup perl script, Apache dies without

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Jesse Jacobsen
On 12/05/99, Ron Hale-Evans addressed Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?: Any help with getting Type 1 CM fonts to work with LaTeX will be much appreciated. Caveat: I use potato, but maybe this will work on slink too. Look for an ae package, i.e. \usepackage{ae}. This sets up

Re: XF86_Banshee

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
Assuming the binary is compadible with the version of XF86 you have installed the easiest way is to do this: copy the binary to /usr/X1R6/bin change /etc/X11/Xserver's first line to point to that filename, and it should work, or, just see what file Xserver points to and copy the new binary on

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
i have heard of there being probems running linuxppc on new macs, but on the 8600 in runs perfectly (well close to). The buggiest thing that i ran accross was messing in the open firmware (my 8600 had old firmware), but bootx came along and i never had to deal with that again. With bootx a person

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
i prefer the ncurses based installer myself, but people comming from the other OSs probably prefer something a little more familiar. before linux i was one of those command line? eek!! people aswell. now when i use one of the other OSs i keep wanting to bring up a prompt. On Fri, 3 Dec 1999,

bootpd

1999-12-06 Thread Marcin Kurc
Is there bootpd in debian distribution? -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

bootpd

1999-12-06 Thread Marcin Kurc
Sorry, iI found bootpd, misspeled grep before. -- Marcin Kurc Indiana Institute of Technology System Administrator http://me.indtech.edu http://www.indtech.edu

RE: RE[2]: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
hope Bill hasn't thought of it... After all, they did invest in apple. yes 150 million worth, but it was on-voting stock, and was a sort of payment for the keeping quite about microsoft stealing quick-time source. If the CEO at the time (Gil Ameleo) had any nuts he wouldn't have let apple be

Re: Partion sizes - recommendations pls

1999-12-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Any suggestions on how large to create my partitions based on the following usage: Apache *only local* for designing my database and HTML (not sure which mods), PHP, Mysql... GUI heavweights : X, KDE or Gnome, Star Office or Word Perfect,

Re: LILO

1999-12-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Dietrich Clauss ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I tried to change boot=hda3 to hda4 Did you move the 'bootable' flag from hda3 to 4, too? Otherwise, the MBR tries to start your old LILO on hda3. You can also install LILO in the MBR using boot=hda that makes the 'bootable' flag

Re: Unidentified subject!

1999-12-06 Thread aphro
On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Rick Dunnivan wrote: rdunni drive from the controller and plugged it into the IDE rdunni on the mother board and it works fine. My question: rdunni Is there a way for debian to recognize the hard drive rdunni while it is plugged into the Ultra66 controller? install using the

Re: XF86_Banshee

1999-12-06 Thread Gary Hennigan
aphro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Assuming the binary is compadible with the version of XF86 you have installed the easiest way is to do this: copy the binary to /usr/X1R6/bin change /etc/X11/Xserver's first line to point to that filename, and it should work, or, just see what file Xserver

Re: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Evan Moore
Ever look at the macos installer? it has one of the nicest installers of all. for a newbie it is nicer than ncurses or xwin based linux installers and much nicer than a windows based installer. You can get full blown 24 bit color at full resolution with their installer. the UI is nice and easy to

Re: NIS and groups

1999-12-06 Thread Adam C Powell IV
Peter Ross wrote: On 03-Dec-1999, Adam C Powell IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] How do I set things up so that either it will recognize group memberships on the NIS server, or else allow me to add NIS users to local groups? Do I need to eliminate local groups like floppy, mail, etc?

Re: bootpd

1999-12-06 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 6 Dec, Marcin Kurc wrote about bootpd Is there bootpd in debian distribution? Sure. In Debian 2.1(slink) it is in the netstd package. In Debian unstable(potato) it is has been split out into the bootp package. You can use the Search the Contents of the Latest Release search engine at

Re: Mule for emacs20

1999-12-06 Thread Jinsong Zhao
In emacs20, you don't need mule: it's part of emacs20. However, I'm not sure if Debian version contains the leim package. You can download and compile your self and make sure to include the leim package. For GB, you need add one line in the .emacs: (set-language-environment 'Chinese-GB) and the

RE: Why

1999-12-06 Thread Paul McHale
Evan, Ever look at the macos installer? it has one of the nicest installers of all. for a newbie it is nicer than ncurses or xwin based linux installers This has been true for some time. Apple has always offered superior ease of use. They screwed up with the closed architecture. Talk

Mirroring a Server

1999-12-06 Thread Ricardo Jardel Nunes da Silveira
Any one can suggest me softwares for mirror a server (Backup) ? Thank You ! ___ linux, a oitava maravilha do mundo :)

ttysnoop w/ win98 ptmx

1999-12-06 Thread Darxus
Has anybody gotten ttysnoop to work w/ Unix98 PTYs ? __ PGP fingerprint = 03 5B 9B A0 16 33 91 2F A5 77 BC EE 43 71 98 D4 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Find the next largest prime, be

Re: Using Computer Modern PS fonts with LaTeX?

1999-12-06 Thread Colin Marquardt
* Eric G Miller egm2@jps.net writes: If you don't need them to be CMR fonts (which I don't think Acrobat can display well), try '\usepackage{times}'. That'll give you Postscript 1 fonts. Since AcroReader only understands 11 fonts, *only* Times Roman, Helvetica, Courier [New?], and Zapf

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